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VasakOS donations

Every contribution is reinvested in the growth of the project

Community project

Monthly goal

USD $1500

A year: USD $18000

This is what a month of the project costs. There are no ads and nobody's data in the middle: whatever comes in is reinvested, every line item below carries its amount so a contribution is never a bet, and the full breakdown is below with the sum that closes the month.

A full month

The forum, the servers, the tooling and the support are billed every month, good month or bad. The goal covers one full month without depending on some stray contribution coming to the rescue.

Five line items, five amounts

The list below adds up to exactly the goal: repository, community, tooling, services and maintenance, each with its price on display and no hidden line items summing somewhere else.

No ads, no data

The site shows no ads, neither sells nor shares anyone's data, and there are no sponsorships deciding what gets published: the project is sustained by its community and nothing else.

Other ways to help

Reporting a bug, translating, testing an update or telling someone we exist also sustains the project. The ways to give money are below; these ones cost nothing.

It buys no influence

The contribution sustains the project, it does not steer it: direction is discussed in the open — forum and public issues — and the same breakdown applies to whoever gives and whoever cannot.

No tiers, no perks

There are no privileged contributions and no rewards to fulfil: whoever gives a dollar and whoever gives a thousand sustain the same project, see the same thing and have the same say.

Current focus

Distribution, community and services for developers

Who already gives

The public GitHub Sponsors donors. The list refreshes on its own with every site deploy; whoever gives privately does not appear here.

Where the money goes

Five line items, each with its monthly amount. They add up to the goal.

Distribution servers (pacman)

USD $300 per month

The VasakOS package repository: without it, installing and updating the system depends on third parties.

  • The vasakos repository and its mirrors
  • Package signing and keys
  • Download bandwidth and storage

Forum and community server

USD $150 per month

A place of our own to ask, answer and keep what has already been solved.

  • Community forum
  • Support and moderation
  • Official project channels

Developer work tools

USD $250 per month

What gets used every day to design, write, review and publish.

  • Development environments and licences
  • Design and prototyping
  • Code review

Services for developers

USD $400 per month

The infrastructure every contribution goes through before it reaches a user.

  • Continuous integration and builds
  • Package and container registries
  • Domains, email and storage

Development and maintenance of the distro

USD $400 per month

Everything around the distro: what gets fixed, tested and documented.

  • New features, fixes and stability
  • Testing on real hardware
  • Website, documentation and project status

Monthly total

USD $1500

The ecosystem you sustain

A contribution does not sustain a download: it sustains everything underneath it.

Desktop and session

Components: 5
  • Desktop Stable
  • Session manager Beta
  • Session settings Beta
View 2 more in Desktop and session

Applications

Components: 13
  • File manager Beta
  • Terminal Beta
  • System settings Beta
View 10 more in Applications

System services

Components: 8
  • Keyring Beta
  • Notifications Stable
  • PolicyKit Agent Beta
View 5 more in System services

Input and accessibility

Components: 1
  • Press and hold Stable

Distribution

Components: 2
  • ISO image Beta
  • pacman repository Stable

See the detailed status of each component

Transparency

  • We prioritise spending that directly affects stability, performance and support.
  • We publish important changes and progress on the project's official channels.
  • Contributions are never used for anything other than developing and sustaining VasakOS.

Every contribution, however small, lets us sustain the project and keep building a better experience for everyone.