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Together with dozens of others, you can become a backer or sponsor on our OpenCollective. You will receive regular updates exclusively for backers.
Donations wil pay contributors, maintainers, and artists to work primarily on app development, towards our feature roadmap, but also any kind of project-related fees such as hosting.
Everything is transparent, and the outcome of the work is seen in the code repositories as commits, with progress tracked as milestones and issues.
As a token of appreciation, names of recent and/or regular backers are mentioned in the app and on this website, and updated regularly.
Donations are not the only way to help, you can also join our effort to improve the platform by becoming a contributor. There are plenty of things you can do to make Bonfire even better!
