Donation Directory

OSArch accepts financial support through our Open Source Collective page. You may also be interested in donating directly to projects which impact you from the AEC Free Software directory and then documenting your financial contribution on the OSArch Supporters page.

This is a directory with a list of the public links for donations and financial support of several free/libre software AEC projects. Please, if you like the work that they are doing, consider to visit the donation links listed bellow.

Money is just one way to help. You are always very welcome to post to our community forum if you want to talk about supporting our aims in other ways. You are also very welcome to add yourself to the page of OSArch_Supporters.

We have collected these public links from different sources, such as forums, official web pages, etc. Developers are working as volunteers for these projects and your support will be appreciated. We will try to have updated this list with the people's links that are currently working, but it is your responsibility to make an informed decision before making a donation.

If you want to help us seek more substantial funding see our Funding sources page.

Blender

Blender - Blender Development Fund Blender Foundation

BlenderBIM Add-on

BlenderBIM Add-on - see IfcOpenShell below.

CAD Transform

CAD Transform - Addon for Blender. The cost is 0, but you can select a fair price in gumroad.com https://gumroad.com/l/nqvcs

CloudCompare

CloudCompare - they have their own account on DonorBox https://donorbox.org/support-cloudcompare

Excalidraw

Excalidraw - accept donations through their OpenCollective account.

FreeCAD

FreeCAD

• Official FreeCAD Liberapay Account
• Official FreeCAD sponsoring page
• You can also contribute directly to several FreeCAD developers:
  • Kurt Kremitzki
  • Yorik van Havre
  • RealThunder
  • Amritpal Singh
  • Hakan Seven
  • Brad Collette via Flattr or Patreon
• PyFlow is used within FreeCAD as a node editor(like Grasshopper, Dynamo, Sverchok)PyFlow on Patreon

GRASS GIS

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System - Donation page - https://grass.osgeo.org/contribute/sponsoring/

IFC.js

IFC.js can be supported via opencollective

IfcOpenShell

IfcOpenShell, of which BlenderBIM Add-on is a submodule

• Project funding is through the OpenSourceBIM OpenCollective page
• You can contribute directly to several developers, although it is recommended to contribute to the OpenCollective project page instead:
  • Thomas Krijnen
  • Dion Moult

Inkscape

Inkscape - Donation page - https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/

Krita

Krita - https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/

LibreDWG

Support the main developer of LibreDWG, Reini Urban, on Patreon or github

OpenLCA

Support the OpenLCA project by purchasing services

The OpenSourceBIM collective

Note that this has now Prior to the reorganisation by IfcOpenShell, you can see a large number of contributors who you may wish to contact directly who have worked on a variety of OpenBIM application. https://github.com/opensourceBIM

QGIS

FLOSS Geographic Information System. Donation page: - https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html

SolveSpace

SolveSpace

• Read the "Contributing to SolveSpace" docs.
• You can also donate directly to several SolveSpace contributors:
  • Alexander Pozdnyakov (maintainer of notersalexp PPA for Debian/Ubuntu)
  • app4soft (QA team, Ukrainian localization team, moderator of /r/SolveSpace on Reddit)

Sverchok

Sverchok - There is a Paypal link on the Sverchok website

Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D Interior Design Software - There is a Paypal link on the SH3D page: http://www.sweethome3d.com/donate.jsp

Tissue

Tissue - Addon for Blender. You can support the author, Alessandro Zomparelli. https://www.patreon.com/alessandrozomparelli

Topologic

Topologic You can donate via:

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/topologic
• Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/Topologic/donate

Broadly Funding Open Source AEC Software Development

OpeningDesign is experimenting with a funding model where they will dedicate 10% of their project specific revenue to open source AEC developers.