Donate

Why donate money?

KaOS is free of cost and doesn't generate any direct sort of income. This means that without donations, server costs, paying for hardware needs and test equipment all has to be covered by the developers, on top of the weekly average of 15-20 hours (spare time has to be found for this) it takes to maintain KaOS.

How to support KaOS?

To support KaOS, donations can be made through LFX Crowdfunding (part of the Linux Foundation). Funds will be used to offset server costs, obtain needed hardware, upgrade (build) servers and to fund the work of the people behind it.

Can I see how the money is spent?

With using LFX Crowdfunding all income and expenses for KaOS are complete public and transparent. You can read all about how donating to a project works in LFX Crowdfunding documentation.

Sponsors

A FOSS project like KaOS really need that some companies and individuals are willing to sponsor through donating mirror space, hardware and other vital infrastructure. Here is a list of companies and individuals who are making the development of KaOS into something a bit bigger, more public, possible.

A powerful build-server is vital to keep up for a rolling distro. Dezponia, who has a long-standing history of supporting small FOSS projects with exactly that kind of needed hardware, has decided to support KaOS too. No link, just an homage to Dezponia's favorite cartoon..
YourHostingSolutions provides KaOS with a server for package uploads and is the main mirror that all other mirrors sync off from. Get started quickly and easily with your own domain, website and email using YourHostingSolutions.
MerMouY has created a first French and second European mirror for KaOS. This is a first KaOS-user created mirror.
Adam has created a first Czech and fourth European mirror for KaOS sponsored by Connect Plus.
A second US mirror is graciously provided by the Princeton University Mathematics Department. This mirror provides a 20 GiG connection, fastest available for KaOS.
Freedif.org has graciously offered a mirror in Vietnam.
German mirror by Alpix.
French @ Canadian mirrors of Cellix
Japanese mirror by ikedaC.

A list of those who have supported KaOS in the past through PayPal or Flattr. Thank You!

Andreas Hein Andy Wywiorka Christopher Bagdanov Eduardo Bohoyo Díaz Fred Heesterbeek Gunther Strube Indy Chery Jacek Jaworski Jerrilyn Tiebesl Jose Fernandez Garcia Jose Mario González González Klaus Bergius Melvin Morris Neil Rankine Orlando Monedero Mones Paresh Adhia Peter Seifert Scott McDonough Stéphane Massoni Thomas Kaiser Vikram Udyavar