Donations

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

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 he activates this feature, there should be a "Donate" section in the left column of the main page. 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.

diaspora* is developed by volunteers. You still can 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 its work is accepted by the diaspora* core team, he 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.

To developers

Some of the volunteers who are working on diaspora* have accounts on a donation platform called Liberapay. It's a patreon-like website but its free software and with minimum fees. If you want to support directly a person, you can give him money there.

Name diaspora id github id Liberapay account
Senya senya@socializer.cc cmrd-senya https://liberapay.com/senya/
Benjamin Neff supertux@nerdpol.ch supertux88 https://liberapay.com/on/github/SuperTux88/
Fla fla@diaspora-fr.org flaburgan https://liberapay.com/fla

Senya is willing to work full-time on diaspora* if he gets enough money so you know what to do if you want to see the project moving faster. He also accepts bitcoin donations, see his diaspora* profile