Donations

You want to help diaspora* by giving a few bucks? Awesome!

Donate to your podmin

The pod administrators are the ones who make the diaspora* network alive. But each node has a cost. To help your podmin keep the server up and running, you can make a donation. If they activate this feature, there should be a "Donate" section in the left column of the main page (Stream). You can there choose the donation system you prefer between those made available by you podmin. The diaspora* software allows to set paypal, liberapay and bitcoin donations.

Donate to help code to be written

diaspora* is developed by volunteers. You can still make donations to show your interest and encourage them to invest more time in diaspora* development.

Bountysource

The current favourite way to help diaspora* development with money is to use the Bounty Source platform. This platform allows you to put money directly on tasks (github issues). When a developer writes the code filling the task (fixing the issue) and their work is accepted by the diaspora* core team, they then get the money attached to the issue on bountysource. That means you are now the ones driving the priorities of the diaspora* project! Of course, if you don't have a specific issue in mind, you can give money to the diaspora* team directly and we will attach it ourselves depending on our priorities.

For more info on bounty source, see this blog post.

Directly to developers

Some of the volunteers who are working on diaspora* have accounts on platforms like Liberapay or Patreon. If you want to support directly one of the developers directly, you can give them money there. This allows you to support the work of individuals you like, instead of deciding which issues you want to support on Bountysoruce, for example.

Name	diaspora* ID	GitHub username	Links to donation sites	What he's working on
Benjamin Neff	supertux@nerdpol.ch	SuperTux88	https://liberapay.com/SuperTux88	Federation, back-end developer, code reviews, release management
Dennis Schubert	denschub@pod.geraspora.de	denschub	https://www.patreon.com/denschub	Project management, release management, day-to-day development tasks, project infrastructure, ..., whatever needs to be done.
Fla	fla@diaspora-fr.org	flaburgan	https://liberapay.com/fla	Podmin of diaspora-fr.org, front-end developer, spreading the word with talks & more
Senya	senya@socializer.cc	cmrd-senya	https://liberapay.com/senya Also accepts bitcoin donations, see his diaspora* profile	Development, testing. Focused on bringing account migration feature to diaspora*.