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Finance
This is the home for the hledger project’s finances. (Shortcut: hledger.org/finance)
Money and the hledger project
Classic gift-economy FOSS communities are a beautiful and precious thing. Adding money, or adding money in the wrong way, can change or damage them. Yet, from the beginning I intended this project to be accountable, solvent and self-funding - ideally, not a money pit. And we need to be exploring new ways to integrate money and FOSS. And in many ways this project is ideal for that. So money is part of the hledger project, we welcome it, and we experiment with it, cautiously, to see what works. The CFO is SM.
Here are some ways we interact with money here:
You can Sponsor hledger to support and grow this project.
You can review our Financial reports.
You can earn Regression bounties by finding or fixing regression bugs.
Issue bounties
Bounties are sometimes offered to encourage completion of a fix or a new feature in the issue tracker. You can use this approach at any time. To earn bounties, search for issues with the bounty label.
Anyone can offer bounties. There are two kinds:
Honour bounties
You or your organisation can offer a bounty simply by saying so on the
issue. Progress and payment are discussed there and handled on the
honour system. The Bounty Manager is SM.
Open Collective bounties
Or the hledger project may offer bounties for specific issues, from our
Open Collective fund. Feel free to suggest issues which might benefit
from this. When you complete an OC bounty, submit an expense
reimbursement requestto hledger’s open collective,
similar to claiming a regression
bounty.
Our bounty amounts have so far been small, but they help us experiment with process and establish a principle of sustainability. When you earn a bounty we encourage you to claim it. But if you prefer, you can offer it as a new bounty on an issue of your choice.