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| 1 | + | ## Contributing to Lazarus | |
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| 3 | + | The Lazarus project is run by volunteers. They do not ask money for using Lazarus. There are many ways to [[How To Help Developing Lazarus|contribute to Lazarus]]. | |
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| 5 | + | ## Contribute money | |
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| 7 | + | ~~From time to time people ask if they can contribute financially to Lazarus. One of the possibilities is to offer a [[Bounties|bounty]]. The Lazarus team also has a PayPal account that you can use to [donate USD](https://sourceforge.net/p/lazarus/donate-usd) or [euros](https://sourceforge.net/p/lazarus/donate-euro/). To minimize overhead, the PayPal account is set on the name of one of the Lazarus team members, **Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho**. The current PayPal fees are \$0.30 + 3.9% for payments in US Dollars and €0.35 + 1.9% for payments in euros.~~ | |
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| 9 | + | You might also consider to donate to the [[Free Pascal and Lazarus foundation]]. | |
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| 11 | + | ## Destination | |
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| 13 | + | The Lazarus team uses your donations to help development and spread the word of Lazarus, for example by buying servers and creating material for conferences. | |
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| 15 | + | ### Planned expenditures | |
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| 17 | + | - Replacement of the hardware of the server that hosts this wiki, the Lazarus snapshots and the FPC FTP server and mailing lists. | |
| 18 | + | - The [[Lazarus Season of Code]] | |
| 19 | + | - Travel Visas. Core developers which travel to FPC / Lazarus developer meetings may request a full refund of the costs to acquire a visa to the destination. | |
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| 21 | + | ### Actual expenditures | |
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| 23 | + | - New Free Pascal Server - April 2010 - EUR 404 | |
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| 26 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "How to donate to Lazarus", as it stood on 2020-07-25 after a change by Jwdietrich, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 27 | + | Category: Community | |
| 28 | + | Category: Promotion |