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| 1 | +# Support the project |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +The Binder community gets support from many different people and in many different forms. |
| 4 | +This page describes the kinds of support that Binder receives, as well as how you can support the Binder project. |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +:::{admonition} Who supports mybinder.org? |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +- [The mybinder.org landing page](https://mybinder.org) has list of organizations that financially support mybinder.org. |
| 9 | +- {external+tc:doc}`team` has a list of personnel that support the project. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +::: |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +## Our major costs |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +In addition to developing and maintaining the many open source tools built by this project, we also have a few extra costs: |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +- **Cloud expenses for mybinder.org**: The service at mybinder.org serves tens of thousands of sessions each week, each of which run in the cloud. |
| 18 | + We pay for this infrastructure via donations of credits and money from the community. |
| 19 | +- **Personnel to operate mybinder.org**: Running a heavily-used and complex cloud service requires expertise in cloud infrastructure development and operation. |
| 20 | + We receive in-kind contributions from several individuals and organizations to help us sustain these operations. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +## Donate to our cloud operations fund |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +The easiest way to support the mybinder.org team is to provide a financial contribution to our cloud operations fund. |
| 25 | +This is administered by [NumFocus](https://numfocus.org) and is used to pay for the cost of developing, operating, and paying the cloud bill for Binder. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +```{button-link} https://numfocus.salsalabs.org/donate-to-binder |
| 28 | +:color: primary |
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| 30 | +Donate funds to mybinder.org |
| 31 | +``` |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +## Provide cloud credits for mybinder.org |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +If you are a cloud provider, or have credits that can be donated to run mybinder.org's infrastructure, please send us an email about making a donation of cloud infrastructure. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +```{button-link} mailto: [email protected] |
| 38 | +:color: primary |
| 39 | +
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| 40 | +Donate cloud credits to mybinder.org |
| 41 | +``` |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +## Operate cloud infrastructure with us |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +The Binder team operates a variety of BinderHub deployments across many cloud providers via [the BinderHub Federation](federation.md). |
| 46 | +If you have cloud infrastructure, or the skills to operate cloud infrastructure, we invite you to join the BinderHub Federation by offering to assist with running a BinderHub deployment. |
| 47 | +Even better, you can offer to [deploy and operate a new BinderHub Federation member](federation/joining)! |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +```{button-link} https://github.com/jupyterhub/team-compass/issues/new/choose |
| 50 | +:color: primary |
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| 52 | +Reach out about operating infrastructure |
| 53 | +``` |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +## Help with our open source efforts |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +Finally, all of the techology behind mybinder.org is built by an open community. |
| 58 | +We welcome any kind of contributions and support. |
| 59 | +You can find many ways to contribute to the Binder community, codebase, and services at [](../contribute.md). |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +## Attribution for team members |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +We wish to recognize the contributions that individuals and organizations make on behalf of Binder. |
| 64 | +For this reason, we define a few key contribution areas below, and explicitly recognize these contributions in our mybinder.org pages. |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +- *mybinder.org federation members* - Institutions that deploy, fund, and staff their own BinderHub in the federation. |
| 67 | +- *mybinder.org partner institutions* - Institutions that employ individuals that operate any hubs in the mybinder.org federation (if not full federation members). |
| 68 | +- *mybinder.org major supporters* - Institutions that provide significant financial resources or credits for any hubs in the mybinder.org federation ("significant" is defined as anything greater than $10,000 annually). |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +## Previous grants and major support |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +- From 2019 through 2021, `gke.mybinder.org` was supported by cloud credits from [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/). |
| 73 | +- In 2017 the Binder Project received a 1-year grant from the |
| 74 | +`Moore Foundation <https://figshare.com/s/e9d0ad7bdc4e405cccfa>`_. |
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