diff --git a/Community.md b/Community.md index 3e3ed9f..4928a39 100644 --- a/Community.md +++ b/Community.md @@ -60,6 +60,47 @@ We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we work to improve our Thierry Laurion +Supporting the Project +=== + +Heads and its source code are free and open source — you never need to donate to +use Heads, or to read and contribute to this wiki. But keeping the Heads source +code and this documentation (heads-wiki) accurate, current, and reviewed is +ongoing work, and it is not free. No one can carry a project alone for too long +without becoming overwhelmed. + +## What donations fund + +Donations — with Open Collective payments publicly tracked on the [Insurgo Initiative's Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/insurgo) — have covered +real subcontracting work: past expenses show contributors were +paid for agreed, reviewed work, exactly the gap that fixed-period grants never close. Grants +(such as the NLnet-funded [AccessibleSecurity](https://nlnet.nl/project/AccessibleSecurity/), +[AuthenticatedHeads](https://nlnet.nl/project/AuthenticatedHeads/), and +[TPM 2.0 for Heads](https://nlnet.nl/project/HEADS-TPM2.0) projects) fund one-off, +scoped efforts; they do not fund the ongoing upkeep, test hardware, and +documentation maintenance that keeps Heads usable. Donations fund that day-to-day +maintenance — maintainer time, and paying the experts who close the gaps. + +## Recurring support sustains the project + +Monthly donations are preferred: they let the project plan ahead and budget its +expenses instead of relying on one-off gifts. It is not the number of donors +alone but the predictable, recurring total that matters — a steady group of +monthly supporters sustains Heads far more reliably than many small one-time +gifts. + +* [GitHub Sponsors (tlaurion)](https://github.com/sponsors/tlaurion) +* [Open Collective (Insurgo)](https://opencollective.com/insurgo) + +## Contributing is not only monetary + +Vendors who build on Heads — NovaCustom, Nitrokey, 3mdeb, Purism — give back not +only with money but with code, co-maintainership, and time on tech debt, +standardization, and documentation. Purism co-developed code with Heads (the +factory/OEM reset, coreboot support); NovaCustom funded specific features. This +is what open source means — and commercial users are encouraged to subscribe or +contract back into the project they depend on. + Found a bug under Heads/How to Contribute === diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 26e22a4..82d3a48 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ Left: laptop/workstation. Right: server (BMC/SSH/Console) style="width: 100%; max-width: 800px; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;"> +Support the Project +=== + +Heads and this wiki are free and open source, but keeping them maintained is +ongoing work that is not free. Support via [GitHub Sponsors +(tlaurion)](https://github.com/sponsors/tlaurion) or [Open Collective +(Insurgo)](https://opencollective.com/insurgo). See [Supporting the +Project]({{ site.baseurl }}/community/#supporting-the-project) on the Community +page for details. + Overview ===