MacPorts, Open Collective, and GitHub Sponsors June 17, 2024
Many people have asked us if there is a way to contribute to MacPorts financially. We are happy to announce that we are now able to accept contributions via the Open Collective platform, with The Open Source Collective as our fiscal host. Click here to get started.
We also have a GitHub Sponsors profile, which may be more convenient for some people to use. Payments made through GitHub Sponsors also go to our Open Collective account.
Open Collective has extensive documentation explaining how the system works. The Contributors FAQ is a good place to start.
The collected funds will be used to cover expenses related to the operation of the MacPorts project. Expenses will be approved at the discretion of the PortMgr team. Transactions will be publicly visible on the Open Collective site (with personal information redacted).
We expect that initial expenses will be for hosting costs, with new BuildBot hardware being a more ambitious goal. Please feel free to suggest anything else that you think would be useful!
The MacPorts Port Managers