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title: Commit To Devuan |
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topic_id: |
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prev: <a href="/os/partners/sponsor-an-event">sponsor an event</a> |
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up: <a href="/os/partners">partners</a> |
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next: <a href="/os/partners/buy-pre-installed-devices">pre-installed devices</a> |
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# How you Can Help |
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Thank you for considering supporting Devuan! |
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Thank you for your interest in supporting Devuan! |
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## Translations |
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You can [mirror and translate the static web][wdo-mirror] at devuan.org. |
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If you provide a primary mirror for your language, we can offer |
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<lang>.devuan.org where <lang> is the locale (e.g., de, en, es, |
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fr, it, en-US, zn-CH...) |
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We can also host your translations on the main devuan.org server. |
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## Monetary Donations |
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A continuous flow of income allows the project to be sustainable. |
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Expenses range from IT to travel and hosting costs, and remuneration of |
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people working on Devuan. We believe "volunteer" has a distinct meaning |
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than "free labor" and time and talent spent on the projects should be |
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rewarded accordingly. Devuan is made of humans, and we intend them to |
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stay alive! |
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Expenses range from <abbr title="Information Technologies">IT</abbr> to |
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travel and hosting costs, and remuneration of people working on Devuan. |
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We believe "volunteer" has a distinct meaning than "free labor" and time |
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and talent spent on the projects should be rewarded accordingly. Devuan |
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is made of humans, and we intend them to stay alive! |
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If you can afford it and you're committed to helping Devuan, please |
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consider a recurring donation, as minimal as it may be: it contributes |
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<%#= partial :donation_form %> |
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## Merchandise |
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You can show your support with Devuan-branded tee-shirts, stickers, and |
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more. Have a look at [our shop](/os/shopping), these make a great |
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conversation starter. |
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## Media Sponsorship |
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*Sponsor a Devuan Gathering* |
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[*Sponsor a Devuan Gathering*][0] |
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Corporate donors can sponsor specific events to support the community in |
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exchange for exposure. We're looking for partners promoting free |
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software, responsible and sustainable businesses who share our vision |
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for a free, inclusive society. |
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### Devuan User Conference |
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This kind of event is organized locally to bring awareness about Devuan |
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to the regional community, with install parties, conferences, workshops, |
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etc. |
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A local Devuan group, registered on talk.devuan.org, can reach to the |
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fundraising community and access local sponsors on behalf of the |
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project. |
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Event budget range from 2000 to 20000 EUR/USD, that can be sponsored in |
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full or in part by donators. |
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### Documentation Book Sprints |
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This type of event gathers between 6 and 10 people for a few days to |
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create quality documentation in the form of a printed book. How-to |
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guides and official documentation can be edited and refined to reach |
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printable state. |
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The whole Devuan documentation takes the form of devuan.org, a static |
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web than can be browsed locally and exported to LaTeX for printing. |
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Documentation Book Sprints emulate the participants to reach a high |
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productivity level that result in a tangible product, one or more |
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chapters, or a tome of Devuan Documentation. |
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Release Notes can be produced efficiently by reviewing ChangeLogs and |
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crafting informative and inspiring comments. |
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Budget for a book sprint vary according to location, travel expenses, |
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local cost of life, and duration of the process. At the end of the |
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sprint, a book is uploaded to Lulu.com for sale to benefit the Devuan |
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Project. |
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### Rafting |
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Devuan doesn't do "hackathons", perceived as too competitive. Instead |
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we do "Rafting", which can be understood as cooperative hackathons, |
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setup to solve specific problems that require the attention of a number |
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of developers. They function like documentation book sprints (and may |
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be combined with one), but for source code and materials. |
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A rafting can be organized to release an infrastructure program, define |
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a user interface to reuse across desktop packages, create a new or |
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finish an existing program, teach upstream developers to maintain their |
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own Devuan package (without adding too much burden to their workflow), |
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etc. |
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A Devuan rafting produces free software (in general: GPL), and it's a |
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great way to nurture the developer community with face-to-face |
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interaction. |
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### Release Party |
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We would love to gather all people who participated in Devuan since the |
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beginning to a 1.0.0 release party. Our current perspective, given the |
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dispersion of Devuan developers around the world is to make it a remote |
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event. |
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Sometimes we dream about a real, face-to-face gathering to put flesh |
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around the IRC nicknames. This means thousands of Euro in travel costs, |
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a significant CO2 release in the atmosphere, expenses for a venue and |
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all the costs associated with gathering a number of people at the same |
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place. Way out of our budget. Can you help? Please let us know! |
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## In-Kind Donations |
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### Racked Servers |
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If you can provide a server in a datacenter, we can probably make good |
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use of it. If you have space in your datacenter, we can also buy a |
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server and rack it there. |
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### Build Machines |
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We're looking to expand our capacity to automatically build Devuan |
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packages on different architectures, preferrably ARM devices and rare |
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architectures. |
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Hardware vendors are welcome to send sample machines for Devuan |
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developers to work with. According to the availability of interested |
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developers, delivery may change, therefore you should make your gift in |
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the appropriate topic in talk.do: [Donating Build Machines to the Devuan |
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Project](https://talk.devuan.org/t/donating-build-machines-to-the-devuan-project/346). |
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### Bandwidth |
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There are several ways to help Devuan with bandwith: |
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@ -141,35 +74,36 @@ There are several ways to help Devuan with bandwith: |
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- Mirroring Devuan packages is being documented... |
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### Places |
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If you have a place where a dozen people could work on Devuan for a few |
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days in great conditions, you're very welcome to invite for a |
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documentation book sprint or a hackathon (see "Media Sponsorship"). |
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### Racked Servers |
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Face-to-face meetings are not only productive, they also nurture the |
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community. |
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If you can provide a server in a data center, we can probably make good |
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use of it. If you have space in your data center, we can also buy a |
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server and rack it there. |
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### Translations |
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### Build Machines |
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You can [mirror and translate the static web][wdo-mirror] at devuan.org. |
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If you provide a primary mirror for your language, we can offer |
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<lang>.devuan.org where <lang> is the locale (e.g., de, en, es, |
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fr, it, en-US, zn-CH...) |
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We're looking to expand our capacity to automatically build Devuan |
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packages on different architectures, preferrably ARM devices and rare |
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architectures. |
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We can also host your translations on the main devuan.org server. |
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Hardware vendors are welcome to send sample machines for Devuan |
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developers to work with. According to the availability of interested |
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developers, delivery may change, therefore you should make your gift in |
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the appropriate topic in talk.do: [Donating Build Machines to the Devuan |
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Project](https://talk.devuan.org/t/donating-build-machines-to-the-devuan-project/346). |
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## Hire Devuan Developers |
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If you're a company who's relying on Devuan, please consider hiring a |
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Devuan Developer to keep working on the project. A dedicated developer |
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is more valuable to the project than a struggling one, and working a |
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part-time or a full-time job on Devuan is a great gift to the community. |
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### Places |
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Devuan developers are all around the world. Make your proposal on |
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talk.do: "[Job Offers](https://talk.devuan.org/t/job-offers/250)". |
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If you have a place where a dozen people could work on Devuan for a few |
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days in great conditions, you're very welcome to invite for a |
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[documentation book sprint][1] or a [devuan gathering][0]. |
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Face-to-face meetings are not only productive, they also nurture the |
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community. |
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[0]: /os/partners/sponsor-an-event |
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[1]: /os/partners/sponsor-documentation |
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[rsync]: https://files.devuan.org/MIRRORS.txt |
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[torrent]: /os/download/devuan_latest_stable.torrent |
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[wdo-mirror]: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-www/issues/1 |
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hellekin
7 years ago
