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title: Funding TiddlyWiki
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tags: About HelloThere
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modified: 20221204165636777
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created: 20221204165636777
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TiddlyWiki is more useful to everybody if it is free to use, with no financial barriers to long term adoption. It is not altruism; we believe that removing or reducing barriers to adoption will help to ensure TiddlyWiki's future by making the community larger and stronger.
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Nonetheless, TiddlyWiki is a relatively big, complex machine that requires a significant amount of ongoing work to maintain and improve. Some community infrastructure also requires monthly fees to operate (notably the [[TiddlyWiki forum|Forums]]).
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The people in the community that do the work have widely varying needs:
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* At one end, a good proportion of the work on TiddlyWiki is performed by community members on a purely voluntary basis. For those people, the satisfaction of helping others is sufficient reward. Indeed, for many people, unpaid voluntary activities are a satisfying antidote to everyday paid work
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* At the other extreme, JeremyRuston and some other contributors are trying to make a full-time living working on TiddlyWiki by offering commercial products and services around it
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* In between, there are other people who would appreciate an ocassional token to reward them for their work
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To support these needs in the community, we have two initiatives:
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* We use [[Open Collective]] to collect donations for the infrastructure costs of the Community and to crowdfund specific developments by individuals or organisations
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* The [[TiddlyWiki Marketplace]] provides a shop window for individuals and organisations offering commercial products and services
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