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elementary

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elementary was founded in 2007 by a small group of passionate volunteers. Over the years, we’ve been able to grow into a tiny company and fund the development of Open Source software. Everything that we make is 100% Open Source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world.

But We Need Your Help

We're made up of mostly volunteer developers working in our spare time. We'd like to grow our full-time staff and pay contractors to develop new features and fix issues. Since we collaborate with other software makers like GNOME and Ubuntu, our contributions often trickle out to the greater ecosystem of Open Source operating systems.

You can see who we sponsor from your contributions here: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/sponsoring

Plus we want to be able to regularly attend important conferences like GUADEC, LAS, and more to talk about our ideas, collaborate with other developers, and grow the Open Source community as a whole. Attending these events is critical for our participation in the development of foundational technologies like GTK and Flatpak, but international travel is often outside our regular budget.

With your help, we can pay more people to work on creating great Open Source software and attend important events where we can improve Open Source operating systems for everyone!

One-time sponsorships

We've started accepting one-time sponsorships for the monthly updates blog post; if you'd like, you can explicitly sponsor the next blog post and get your name and link (per our approval, of course) at end in the "Thanks" section. This is a great way to show your support!

Note that this tier is for individuals; for companies/organizations, please email press@elementary.io for sponsorship opportunities.

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This covers our monthly average expenses including payroll, taxes, web hosting, sponsorships, hardware, etc

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Featured work

  1. elementary/website

    The elementary.io website

    PHP 1,247
  2. elementary/appcenter

    Pay-what-you-can app store for elementary OS

    Vala 543
  3. elementary/os

    The OS build system

    Shell 1,030
  4. elementary/actions

    Reusable GitHub Actions for elementary apps

    Shell 37
  5. elementary/granite

    Library that extends GTK with common widgets and utilities

    Vala 290
  6. elementary/docs

    Documentation for 3rd-party app development

22% towards $7,500 per month goal

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@DerekRoth @jharrilim @henrique-andrade @crisconru @AceXare

KeironO and 411 others sponsor this goal

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We appreciate your support! You'll get:

🩷 A badge on your profile saying that you're sponsoring us
💌 a monthly updates email
🛠️ Early Access to in-development daily builds and monthly release-candidate quality builds of elementary OS
💬 Sponsors-only chat on Discord

Thanks for making elementary OS possible :)

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🚀️❤️ All the same rewards as above, but we really appreciate you a lot! You'll get the profile badge, monthly email, Early Access, sponsors-only chat, and a good feeling for supporting Open Source software development. Thank you so much for your support

$20 a month

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Like the last two tiers but with even more appreciation and maybe even some bragging rights! You’ll get that snazzy badge on your profile and our monthly updates email, plus early access to developer previews and sponsors-only chat with the developers

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🎉✨❤️ You’re a super duper star! You have our deepest appreciation. Our top sponsors can be automatically highlighted on this page!

Plus, the profile badge, monthly updates, sponsors chat and early access