.. _donations:

How can I donate money to the project?
======================================

The Orthanc project **does not accept donations for now**. We think
it's a poor business model for running an open source project as it
suggests the developers are working for charity.

If you want to **help the project financially as an end-user**, you
can approach some of the companies offering commercial support for
Orthanc and engage their services. Doing so creates a healthy
ecosystem around the project where companies are encouraged to
contribute their resources to improve the project to create a larger
pool of potential customers wanting their services. Those companies
can be found at the following locations:

* `Orthanc Pro contact form <https://www.orthanc-server.com/orthanc-pro.php>`__.

* List of `freelancers, small companies, or volunteers providing
  custom assistance
  <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/vWpHWFkYiWI/vB5eRM1WCQAJ>`__
  on the Orthanc Users forum.

Also, if you are a **commercial company** that builds upon the Orthanc
project for your own products, please use the `Orthanc Pro contact
form <https://www.orthanc-server.com/orthanc-pro.php>`__ so as to
engage one of the companies that provide commercial support to
accelerate your feature. Currently, `Osimis <https://www.osimis.io/>`_
is the only company ensuring such corporate services, but others might
show up in the future.

We appreciate **positive feedback** on our project as well. If you are
on Twitter, send us a tweet to `@OrthancServer
<https://twitter.com/OrthancServer>`__. That helps raise awareness of
our project so others can benefit from it as well.

Finally, don't forget to have a look :ref:`other ways to contribute
<contributing>` to the Orthanc project.

*Note:* This text is directly adapted from the `BigBlueButton FAQ
<https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/support/faq.html#how-can-i-donate-money-to-the-project>`__.