Apply for Crowdfunding
You can submit an application to receive financial support from organizations and individuals to grow your community. Submitted applications are reviewed by The Linux Foundation before they're published and visible on the Crowdfunding platform. Projects are reviewed based on the following factors:
Open source status - projects must be 100% open source
Community-wide adoption
Alignment with The Linux Foundation’s support of open source initiative
Submission Guidelines
Consider the following submission guidelines before you apply:
GitHub Project and Git Project:
Your project is 100% open source, has more than one active contributor, and is not backed solely by a single company
Your project has at least 100 stars on GitHub (or a comparable rating on other Git-based sources)
You own the public Git-based repository
You are responsible for project communications
You will be responsible for managing payments from project funds
You can determine fundraising goals
Events and Travel Funds:
You are responsible for fund communications
You will be responsible for managing payments from the funds
You can determine fundraising goals
Submit an Application
Important: The application includes information about you and your project; provide this information if you are authorized to provide it on behalf of your project.
Sign in to Crowdfunding.
Click Apply from the navigation bar, and then select an option.
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