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# Project finances
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This is the home for the hledger project's finances. (Shortcut: [hledger.org/finance](https://hledger.org/finance))
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## Reports
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We log the hledger project's financial transactions and generate reports in the
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[hledger_finance repo](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger_finance).
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There you can review our [financial reports](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger_finance?tab=readme-ov-file#reports).
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## Money and the hledger project
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Classic gift-economy FOSS communities are a beautiful and precious thing.
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Adding money, or adding money in the wrong way, can change or damage them.
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Yet, from the beginning I intended this project to be accountable, solvent and self-funding - ideally, not a money pit.
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And we need to be exploring new ways to integrate FOSS and money.
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And in many ways this project is ideal for that.
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So money is part of the hledger project, we welcome it, and we experiment with it, cautiously, to see what works.
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The CFO is SM; help is welcome.
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You can [Sponsor hledger](sponsor.md) to support and grow this project.
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You can earn [Regression bounties](REGRESSIONS.md) by reporting or fixing regression bugs.
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## Issue bounties
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More generally, bounties are sometimes offered to encourage completion of a bug fix, or a new feature.
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To earn bounties, try to resolve issues with the bounty label.\
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Here are the [issue bounties](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Abounty).
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Anyone can offer bounties. There are two kinds:
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**Honour bounties**\
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You or your organisation can offer a bounty simply by saying so on the issue.
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Progress and payment are discussed there and handled on the honour system.
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The Bounty Manager is SM.
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**Open Collective bounties**\
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Or the hledger project may offer bounties for specific issues, from our Open Collective fund.
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Feel free to suggest issues which might benefit from this.
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When you complete an OC bounty, submit an expense reimbursement request to [hledger's open collective](https://opencollective.com/hledger),
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similar to claiming a [regression bounty](REGRESSIONS.md).
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Our bounty amounts have so far been small, but they help us experiment with process and establish a principle of sustainability.
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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.
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## Funded projects
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We welcome proposals for new funded projects (since 2025).
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Anyone can propose a project and an amount they'll do it for,
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and if approved, do the work, and as deliverables are met, we'll pay you.
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The hledger project's cashflow is currently rather limited,
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so we invite other organisations or individuals to help fund projects (or call for proposals).
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Each proposal begins as an issue, which gets the `funded-project` label when approved.
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Here are the [funded projects](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Afunded-project). |