Asking here since I don't seem to find a support mail for the foundation. I've subscribed for monthly contribution, but did not received a confirmation email. That would be very important for:
- Taxes deduction - Stopping the monthly contribution Thanks, Olivier On Fri, 26 Sep 2025, Steve George <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As everyone on this list knows the GNU Guix project has a continuous > need for funding to pay for the project's infrastructure and development. > > We're looking at ways to fundraise to make Guix sustainable. This is > email is to tell you about it, and ask for your support. > > Previously, we've been using up a large donation from 2018 [0]. But, > that's not going to last forever so we need to increase our fundraising > activity and ask our community for their support. > > In the summer we rebooted the Guix Foundation and we're going to launch > a donation drive over the coming days. > > It's worth summarising what we spend money on. We're lucky that the Max > Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine hosts all of ci.guix.gnu.org. > Everything else is paid for by the project. > > Our critical expenses to cover other build infrastructure, substitute > servers and development services is about 6.5k EUR a year. The project > is growing and there's only increasing demand to scale. So really the > fundraising goal is 15,000 EUR a year (circa 11.5k USD). > > One thing to note is it's not just a one-off need. We need a recurring > donation stream that the project can rely on if we're to be sustainable. > > There's some ways you can help: > > > 1. Make a recurring contribution > --------------------------------- > If you can support with a recurring donation please please do so. > > The most cost-effective way is through Stripe. It will translate the > price into a local price and offer payment options for your jurisdiction. > > - €10 a month: https://donate.stripe.com/8x2bJ133ia2H3Zw4j38N201 > - €15 a month: https://donate.stripe.com/aFaeVd7jy7Uz1Ro02N8N204 > - €20 a month: https://donate.stripe.com/dRm5kD47m0s79jQ9Dn8N202 > > The other alternative is through Open Collective: > > https://opencollective.com/guix > > As part of your donation you'll become a member of Guix Foundation so > you'll also have a voice in it's activities. > > > 2. Donate as a one-off > ----------------------- > I appreciate that not everyone can make a recurring donation. Every > donation is still valuable and helps the project. > > If you're able to help out that's great: > > https://donate.stripe.com/9B6bJ1avK1wbanU6rb8N205 > > > 3. Donate via FSF > ------------------ > If you would rather donate via the FSF (recurring or one-off) then > that's done through this link (select the level you're happy with): > > - https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=50 > > > 4. Help spread the word about fund raising > -------------------------------------------- > The next step that's underway is to revamping the Guix Donate page and > then I'll be creating some posts to fully launch the fundraising > campaign. I expect to do that in the next few days. > > It would be great if you can spread the word when that happens. Both to > explain _why_ there's a need (and what we spend money on), and to > encourage people to support us. > > > Thanks so much, > > Steve / Futurile > > [0] > https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/gnu-guix-receives-donation-from-the-handshake-project/ > -- Olivier Dion oldiob.ca
