Funding Hachyderm
🎉 Thank you to all our donors and sponsors! 🎉
Hachyderm is primarily funded by individual Hachydermians either directly to the Hachyderm project or to Hachyderm’s parent org, the Nivenly Foundation. Although corporate accounts assist with paying for Hachyderm’s infrastructure costs, they are not the primary source of funding for Hachyderm.
How to donate
One fast, easy way to donate to help finance Hachyderm is directly via Hachyderm’s GitHub Sponsors page:
Hachyderm’s GitHub sponsors page has a few benefits, including:
- Sponsor icon on your GitHub profile
- (Optional) A shout out on our #ThankYouThursday on Hachyderm’s Hachyderm account starting in April.
- (Optional) Added to our Thank You list at the bottom of this page starting in April.
For both the shoutouts and Thank You list: we will use your GitHub username by default. If you would like this changed please either submit a PR or email us at admin@hachyderm.io.
Donation Options
The three ways to support Hachyderm are:
- Donating directly to the Hachyderm project
- Donating to Hachyderm’s parent organization, the Nivenly Foundation
- Purchasing swag
Regular Donations
(… and swag)
- Hachyderm’s GitHub Sponsor page
This is the same as the Donate button above. - Nivenly’s GitHub Sponsor page
The Nivenly Foundation is the parent organization for Hachyderm. You can configure either one-time or recurring donations. - Nivenly’s Ko-fi page
This is an alternative method to donating to The Nivenly Foundation, Hachyderm’s parent organization. You can configure either one-time or recurring donations. - Nivenly Donation via Stripe
This is a one-time donation via credit card payment to the Nivenly Foundation.
Please visit our swag store if you’re looking to update your awesome assortment of shirts, mugs, stickers, and so on:
- The Nivenly Foundation Swag Store
Has swag for Nivenly, Hachyderm, and Aurae!
The Nivenly Foundation and Membership
The Nivenly Foundation is the parent organization for Hachyderm. The non-profit co-op itself is being founded over the course of 2023. Currently, Nivenly is a recognized non-profit in the State of Washington, with upcoming milestones to be completed with the IRS. Please check out Nivenly’s webpage and Hachyderm account for updates as we reach different milestones.
As relevant to Hachyderm: since the Nivenly Foundation funds Hachyderm and other projects, this means that Nivenly donations and memberships also support Hachyderm. The main difference between the paths of supporting Hachyderm is that Nivenly members take part in member elections and non-member sponsors and donors do not. Regular donations do not count as or toward memberships, but you can change your preference from donor to member at any time.
General Nivenly Membership can be purchased through Nivenly’s new Open Collective page. If you are looking to join Nivenly as a project or trade member, you must email info@nivenly.org.
Thank you everyone!
Our first set of Thank Yous will be added here in April, one month after our March 2023 release. Updates afterward will be quarterly in June, September, and December 2023. We will update from our public GitHub Sponsors primarily, as we are treating private GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, and Stripe donations private. If you have sent us a donation via one of these and do not want it to be private, and do want to be on this page, please contact us at admin@hachyderm.io. The amount each donor donated will not be listed on this page, name/handle only.