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Donations of time
(to develop new packages, maintain existing packages, or provide user support),
resources (to mirror the FTP and WWW archives), and money (to pay for new
testbeds as well as hardware for the archives) can help the project. See also
How can you help
Debian?.
The development of Debian is open to all, and new users with the right skills and/or the willingness to learn are needed to maintain existing packages which have been "orphaned" by their previous maintainers, to develop new packages, to write documentation, to do translation work, to help with the Debian website, to provide user support, etc.
The description of becoming a Debian member can be found at the New Member's Corner
at the Debian web site.
Since the project aims to make a substantial body of software rapidly and
easily accessible throughout the globe, mirrors are needed. It is desirable
but not absolutely necessary to mirror all of the archive. Please visit the
Debian mirror size
page for information on the disk space requirements.
Most of the mirroring is accomplished entirely automatically by scripts, without any interaction. However, the occasional glitch or system change occurs which requires human intervention.
If you have a high-speed connection to the Internet, the resources to mirror
all or part of the distribution, and are willing to take the time (or find
someone) who can provide regular maintenance of the system, then please contact
mailto:debian-admin@lists.debian.org.
Donations from sponsors allow Debian to have machines, as well as other
hardware, organise conferences and development sprints, amongst other things.
For more information please visit Debian Donations. The page
also lists the different methods that can be used to donate.
One can make individual donations to organizations that are critical to the development of the Debian project. The main organization is Software in the Public Interest, incorporated in the United States, but there are others.
Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States. The purpose of the organization is to develop and distribute free software.
It encourages programmers to use the GNU General Public License or other licenses that allow free redistribution and use of software, and hardware developers to distribute documentation that will allow device drivers to be written for their product.
SPI acts as a fiscal sponsor to many free and open source projects. The Debian project has been an associate project since the organization's creation.
SPI can be reached at: http://www.spi-inc.org/.
There are a number of organizations created in different countries that hold
assets in trust for Debian. The donations page lists the
trusted organizations individuals can donate to. At the time of this writing
there are three of them: Verein zur
Förderung Freier Informationen & Software (in Germany), the
Debian France Association
(in France), and debian.ch
(Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein). Additional affiliate
organizations in other countries are listed in Organizations
page in the Debian Wiki.
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The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
version 9.0, 17 November 2018