elementary was founded in 2007 by a small group of passionate volunteers. Over the years, we’ve been able to grow into a tiny company and fund the development of Open Source software. Everything that we make is 100% Open Source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world.

But We Need Your Help

We're made up of mostly volunteer developers working in our spare time. We'd like to grow our full-time staff and pay contractors to develop new features and fix issues. Since we collaborate with other software makers like GNOME and Ubuntu, our contributions often trickle out to the greater ecosystem of Open Source operating systems.

You can see who we sponsor from your contributions here: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/sponsoring

Plus we want to be able to regularly attend important conferences like GUADEC, LAS, and more to talk about our ideas, collaborate with other developers, and grow the Open Source community as a whole. Attending these events is critical for our participation in the development of foundational technologies like GTK and Flatpak, but international travel is often outside our regular budget.

With your help, we can pay more people to work on creating great Open Source software and attend important events where we can improve Open Source operating systems for everyone!

One-time sponsorships

We've started accepting one-time sponsorships for the monthly updates blog post; if you'd like, you can explicitly sponsor the next blog post and get your name and link (per our approval, of course) at end in the "Thanks" section. This is a great way to show your support!

Note that this tier is for individuals; for companies/organizations, please email press@elementary.io for sponsorship opportunities.