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Overview
The distributed compute and hosting initiative powers open source projects by providing reliable, scalable infrastructure for building, testing, and delivering software. By pooling resources and operating openly, this effort reduces friction for maintainers and accelerates collaboration across communities. The goal is to create a sustainable environment where OSS teams can deploy services, host critical tooling, and share resources without being constrained by siloed silos or limited budgets.
This work supports researchers, developers, and volunteers who depend on open access to compute and hosting. It emphasizes transparency, inclusivity, and practical outcomes: faster iteration cycles for contributors, improved uptime for service-critical projects, and a community-owned infrastructure that grows with the needs of open source ecosystems. The project is a shared responsibility, built on trust and measurable progress.
Why Your Support Matters
Your contribution helps expand capacity, reliability, and resilience for open source networks that power countless tools, libraries, and services used daily. By investing in distributed compute and hosting, you enable maintainers to focus on code quality and user impact rather than wrestling with recurring infrastructure costs. The impact is community-wide, extending beyond a single project to empower collaborators around the world.
- Increase compute capacity for building, testing, and deploying OSS projects at scale.
- Provide dependable hosting for critical services, mirrors, and APIs that communities rely on.
- Support sustainable maintenance costs, ensuring long term accessibility for contributors of all backgrounds.
- Encourage open collaboration through shared infrastructure that lowers barriers to entry for new contributors.
- Foster a transparent, inclusive ecosystem with open governance and public progress reporting.
How Donations Are Used
Funds are allocated to a structured, value-aligned plan designed to maximize impact while maintaining stewardship. The following areas describe how resources flow into practical outcomes for the initiative.
- Development and maintenance of core infrastructure, including compute clusters and hosting services that run open source workloads.
- Security audits, monitoring, and incident response to protect projects and users who depend on the platform.
- Bandwidth, storage, and data transfer costs to ensure fast, reliable access to services and artifacts.
- Community outreach, onboarding, and documentation to help new contributors participate effectively.
- Transparency and governance activities, including public dashboards and periodic progress reports.
Transparency & Trust
We maintain open practices to build trust within the broader community. Public roadmaps, quarterly reports, and open metrics are foundational to how we operate. Donors can review high level outcomes and control how their support translates into tangible improvements. The project environment prioritizes sustainable growth, predictable costs, and ethical stewardship, ensuring that every contribution advances the shared mission of accessible, reliable open source infrastructure.
Because this effort is community powered, governance is collaborative and documented. Decisions about priorities are made with input from maintainers, contributors, and users. Regular updates are posted to reflect milestones, challenges, and lessons learned, keeping a clear line of sight from donor support to real-world impact.
Latest Updates
Updates are shared as milestones are achieved and new capabilities come online. Expect concise progress notes about infrastructure improvements, new partnerships, and enhancements to security and governance. Each update reinforces our commitment to responsible growth and accountable stewardship within an open ecosystem.
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Support Options
Your support matters and every contribution helps advance the infrastructure and services that enable open source collaboration. Choose a contribution method that works for you and join a community committed to sustainable, transparent growth.
Make a Donation
Choose a method below to contribute and help expand the capacity and reliability of distributed compute and hosting for open source projects. Each option provides a direct link to support the initiative.