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Contribution Guidelines

Follow the generic guidelines for contributions to awesome lists described here.

When adding a new sponsorship link:

Elegibility

(Some of these only apply to Software projects and not to the "Other kinds of content" section)

  • The project or the individual developer must still be active (at least a consistent update in the last three months).
  • For individuals claiming major contributions to a well known project, verify that they are actually who they say they are (i.e. check that this is in fact their patreon, check their twitter account, verify their contribution history, etc...).
  • When multiple funding options are available, list them following this template: - [Main funding site](main_link), [#2](other_link), [#3](other_link) - Description.
  • If you want to add your own sponsorship link, don't worry, go ahead, this list has been built for you, self submissions are ok.
  • Projects that require negligible amount of effort to be replicated (hours/few days) or individuals with minimal contributions to open source projects will not be accepted.
  • Asking for contributions makes sense only when there is a verifiable history of released software and open source contributions, not the other way around. Wait and release software for a few months before considering asking for donations, projects/individual that do these two things backward will not be accepted.
  • Your project should be usable by your users and contributors from the point of view of clearly stated scope, carefully crafted and tested install instruction and usage description. Projects that are half-done, that don't clearly state what the project does or don't care about people actually using it will not be accepted. Show that you care, don't just dump code somewhere and call it open source.
  • This list sole aim is to help software developers and their projects with their funding campaigns. People developing actual software, not planning about developing software or selling some grand vision for software that will never materialize. As said above, if you are asking for monetary contributions make a case for it through the software you already shipped in a usable form.

Right Category

  • Add the project to the right category (for people doing generic opensource work on multiple projects use the specific category) or create a new one if you feel it's needed.
  • If a project contains custom hardware or the individual develops its own hardware in addition to software, add it to the hardware category.
  • The list of links follows the alphabetical order, insert your new item in the right position.

Funding Types

  • Alternatives to Github or Patreon, that provide similar recurring payment schemes, are accepted (Opencollective, Liberapay, Flattr, Podia, Drip, etc...).
  • Even if recurring sponsorship is always better since it makes the funding more predictable, Paypal donation links will be, sometimes, allowed for bigger projects.

Thank you for contributing to this list!