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Overview
Open Source Tools for Censorship Resilience is a community driven initiative focused on building reliable, censorship resistant software and resources that empower people to access information and communicate safely. This project aims to create open source tools that prioritize privacy, security, and interoperability across platforms, ensuring critical ideas remain accessible even under pressure. Your support helps sustain development, testing, and dissemination of these tools, ensuring they stay accessible to developers, educators, journalists, and communities worldwide.
By contributing, you join a collaborative effort that values transparency, sustainability, and concrete outcomes. The Open Source Tools for Censorship Resilience project relies on a diverse network of volunteers and contributors, and donations help keep the work active, maintainable, and forward looking. This page explains how funds are used, what we hope to achieve, and how you can participate—whether you donate a little or a lot.
Why Your Support Matters
In an environment where access to information can be unevenly restricted, this project offers practical, open source alternatives that reinforce freedom of inquiry and expression. Your contributions enable continued development and ongoing improvements to tooling that protects privacy, resists censorship, and enhances accessibility for users around the world. With stable funding, Open Source Tools for Censorship Resilience can broaden its reach, implement robust security practices, and cultivate a thriving community around open standards.
Contributions empower the project to invest in core maintenance, code reviews, and quality assurance. They also support outreach efforts, translations, and documentation so that people with varying technical backgrounds can understand, adopt, and contribute to the tools. This is about building reliable, sustainable infrastructure—not a fleeting campaign, but a durable resource for the long term.
How Donations Are Used
Transparency guides every financial decision. Funds are allocated to three core areas: core development and security improvements, hosting and infrastructure, and community outreach and education. By supporting development, the project can implement security reviews, maintain compatibility across environments, and push steady, well-documented releases. Hosting and infrastructure ensure reliable access, while outreach and education help new contributors learn how to participate and how to responsibly use the tools.
In practice, this means dedicating resources to code quality, continuous integration, and accessible documentation. It also means supporting meetings, workshops, and translation efforts so the tools work for a global audience. The aim is a transparent, sustainable cycle where improvements are sustainable and aligned with the needs of users and contributors alike.
Latest Updates
Updates are shared as milestones are reached and community feedback is integrated. Current focus areas include stabilizing core modules, expanding multilingual support, and enhancing offline reliability to ensure resilience in varied network conditions. We invite feedback from users and contributors to help shape next steps and release plans. Regular progress notes and release announcements will appear in the project’s public channels, keeping everyone informed about what’s new and what’s coming next.
Community Voices
The community around Open Source Tools for Censorship Resilience reflects a broad range of perspectives, from developers and researchers to educators and advocates for digital rights. The shared goal is practical, principled toolmaking that respects privacy, encourages open collaboration, and broadens access to information. While specific testimonials may be shared as contributions grow, the underlying message remains consistent: collective effort builds stronger, more trustworthy tools that serve everyone.
Transparency & Trust
Trust is earned through openness. The project commits to public, accessible governance and clear reporting on progress and finances. Code, decisions, and performance metrics are documented in ways that community members can review and discuss. By voluntarily participating and contributing, you help sustain a transparent ecosystem where impact is measurable and accountable. This approach ensures that the tools remain useful, secure, and aligned with community values over time.
Support the Project
Your contributions power ongoing development, security, and accessibility. Choose a donation method that works best for you and help sustain open, censorship-resilient tooling for a global audience.