Donations
If you appreciate Parabola and the work we've been doing all these years, please consider making a donation to keeping the distro going. :)
Contents
1 How can I contribute?
1.1 Parabola hacker or artist
You can consider becoming a Parabola hacker or artist!
1.2 Monetary donations
Parabola can currently accept donations via Liberapay. Donations made through Liberapay go to Parabola developers, as thanks for their efforts.
1.3 Hardware donations (What does Parabola need the most?)
Parabola is run by volunteers, and has no formal funding; but Parabola is expensive, so we need to cover some operating expenses. Luckily, the most essential hardware has been gifted directly, so far.
We also need to acquire more new libre-friendly hardware, of which we are unable to buy all which could be supported and recommended. As we can identify, acquire, and support the most libre-friendly computers available, those can be denoted with high-priority support status.
- Infrastructure
- Repo server - (☑ 'Winston' - currently donated by 1984)
- Web server - (☑ 'Newtron' - currently donated by the FSF)
- Build server - (☑ 'Beefcake' - currently donated by Luke Shumaker)
- Libre-friendly Computers
- ARMv8 boards and laptops
- RISC-V boards and laptops
- POWER9 boards and laptops
- Also (ideally):
- Paid hacker(s) to work on Parabola full-time
- A(nother) libre project can become sustainable
2 Thanks!
This is a list of our generous hardware donors.
2.1 Hardware Donations
Date | Type | Donor | Item(s) | Where is it? |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014?-2019 | Service | Jonathan Gowar | Proton server (VPS) | Positive Internet (england) |
2016-present | Service | 1984 | Winston server (VPS) | 1984 (Iceland) |
2018-present | Service | Luke Shumaker | Beefcake server (Asus D16) | lukeshu (Colorado) |
2020-?? | Hardware | Rhombus Tech | EOMA68 prototype | oaken-source (Germany) |
2020-04 | Hardware | Freenode:marius_m | i7 CPU 16GB DDR3 RAM 512MB SSD 128MB SSD |
bill-auger (Massachusettes) |
2021-02 | Hardware | Olimex | Freedombox Server (gen2) Lime2 Server (gen3) |
bill-auger (Massachusettes) |
2021-2022 | Service | Vikings | Newtron co-lo server (Asus D8) | Vikings (Germany) |
2022-01 | Hardware | Libera:shroomreactionar | Thinkpad T500 (cobbled, in R500 chassis) | bill-auger (Massachusettes) |
2022-02 | Hardware | Libera:srvntx | Thinkpad 90W power supply | bill-auger (Massachusettes) |
2023-02 | Hardware | Olimex | Teres laptop with debug cable | bill-auger (Massachusettes) |
2023-present | Service | FSF | Newtron server (VPS) | FSF (Massachusettes) |
2023-05 | Hardware | Pine64 | PineBookPro laptop with debug cable | bill-auger (Massachusettes) |