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| author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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| 3 How can I donate money to the project? | |
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| 6 The Orthanc project **does not accept donations for now**. We think | |
| 7 it's a poor business model for running an open source project as it | |
| 8 suggests the developers are working for charity. | |
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| 456 | 10 If you are a **commercial company** that builds upon the Orthanc |
| 11 ecosystem for your own products, please contribute by buying the | |
| 805 | 12 :ref:`professional services offered by our community |
| 13 <support-freelancers>`. | |
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| 435 | 15 If you want to **help the project financially as an end-user**, you |
| 16 can approach some of the companies offering commercial support for | |
| 17 Orthanc and engage their services. Doing so creates a healthy | |
| 18 ecosystem around the project where companies are encouraged to | |
| 19 contribute their resources to improve the project to create a larger | |
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21 freelancers <support-freelancers>` is available in this Orthanc Book. |
| 435 | 22 |
| 23 We appreciate **positive feedback** on our project as well. If you are | |
| 24 on Twitter, send us a tweet to `@OrthancServer | |
| 25 <https://twitter.com/OrthancServer>`__. That helps raise awareness of | |
| 26 our project so others can benefit from it as well. | |
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| 28 Finally, don't forget to have a look :ref:`other ways to contribute | |
| 29 <contributing>` to the Orthanc project. | |
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| 456 | 31 *Note:* This text is adapted from the `BigBlueButton FAQ |
| 435 | 32 <https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/support/faq.html#how-can-i-donate-money-to-the-project>`__. |