github.com/ddev sponsorship profile

sponsors.md

DDEV thrives on the collective strength of our incredible community. Your ideas, issues, PRs, and support play an invaluable role in driving the project forward. While these contributions are essential, financial support also plays a crucial part in ensuring DDEV's long-term sustainability.

Sponsorship funds are used to:

• 10% go to all the wonderful upstream projects DDEV depends on
• Compensate contributors for their work on documentation, feature development, and maintenance (Note: rfay is sponsored by Platform.sh and does not receive funds personally)
• Pay for infrastructure needs, like testing resources.
• Pay for software and equipment needed.

Details about the governance and financial goals are available in this issue and in DDEV Advisory Group minutes.

This GitHub Sponsors account is connected to the bank account of the nonprofit Localdev Foundation, which has been set up to fund DDEV development and maintenance for the long term.

Note that if your organization prefers to be invoiced, we can do that, so contact us: randy (at) localdev.foundation. We do support contracts and can do recurring invoices, and accept payments via ACH, wise.com, and other bank transfer.

We also are happy to receive funds via PayPal since GitHub has now discontinued that.

Join us in fostering a vibrant, collaborative community and ensuring the continued success of DDEV by becoming a financial sponsor today. Your support will empower us to create a better, more sustainable project for everyone.

@rfay Here’s my proposed edit:

DDEV is free software that’s supported by an incredible community. While there are lots of ways to [support DDEV](https://ddev.com/support-ddev/), financial contributions help secure DDEV’s long-term sustainability.

Sponsorship funds help:

- Support upstream projects we depend on.
- Cover software, equipment, and infrastucture costs for things like development, testing, and analytics.
- Compensate contributors for their work on documentation, feature development, and maintenance.

Governance and financial details are available in [this GitHub issue](https://github.com/drud/ddev/issues/3268), and they’re regularly reported in [DDEV Advisory Group minutes](https://github.com/drud/ddev/discussions/categories/ddev-advisory-group).

Randy Fay, DDEV’s primary maintainer, administers the nonprofit [Localdev Foundation](https://localdev.foundation) which exists to fund long-term DDEV development and maintenance, and has a bank account linked to GitHub Sponsors. Randy’s work is generously sponsored by Platform.sh, and he does not receive funds personally.

Please consider supporting our work to improve local development for so many people building things on the web!

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**Alternate Funding Options**

We’re happy to be flexible with arrangements that might work better for you. Please email randy (at) localdev.foundation for any of the following:

- Invoices for your organization.
- Custom support contracts or recurring invoices.
- Payment via ACH, wise.com, [PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MCNCSZHC7LHSQ), or other bank transfers.

Goals:

• Edit for brevity.
• Link to the support page for people that may want to contribute in another way.
• Don’t bother with percentages since 90% isn’t quantified. (Otherwise this would be a nice place for a chart!)
• Be more direct about Randy’s role as the primary maintainer, administrator of the Localdev Foundation, and Platform.sh sponsorship.
• End strong and make it about the collective effort of DDEV’s mission rather than sustaining a project.
• Move alternate financial arrangements into their own section since it’s a strange interlude that’s probably not speaking to most readers.

Thanks so much. Took it as you wrote it. https://github.com/sponsors/ddev