Editing OSArch Supporters

OSArch is a loosely defined community, with currently no centralized funding or legal organization. Nevertheless, we function as a community, and work together to produce output with measurable impact on the industry. In lieu of a more structured organization, this page aims to document the existing supporters of OSArch. Or, to put it another way, if we were a centralized organization, who would be our "members" be? Examples of centralized organizations are:

* [https://www.blender.org/foundation/ Blender foundation], funded by the [https://fund.blender.org/ Blender Development Fund]
* [https://www.gnome.org/foundation/ GNOME foundation], funded by [https://www.gnome.org/friends/ Friends of GNOME]
* [https://ev.kde.org/donations/ KDE e.V.], funded by the [https://relate.kde.org/ Join the Game initiative]

There are current discussions and proposals around how OSArch should be structured and how an organization would function, both legally, in terms of making decisions, how to prioritize resources, and how funding is managed and collected (see also [[Funding sources]]). None of this has been finalized, and users are welcome to discuss further:

* [https://community.osarch.org/discussion/303/funding-free-software-and-osarch Funding Free Software and OSArch]
* [https://community.osarch.org/discussion/182/organizational-structure-and-governance-of-osarch/p1 Organizational Structure and Governance of OSArch]
* [https://community.osarch.org/discussion/comment/2252 Application to Epic Games Megagrants for the BlenderBIM Add-on]
* [https://community.osarch.org/discussion/197/funding-open-source-development-a-stab-at-an-open-and-distributed-method-of-profit-sharing/p1 Funding Open Source Development: A stab at an open and distributed method of profit sharing]
* [https://community.osarch.org/discussion/comment/3293 How to make profitable open source?]

== Advocates of OSArch ==

The first level of support we would like to learn about is how many people are simply advocates of OSArch activity. To be an advocate, all that means is that you have read and understood [[Open-Source Architecture Community|what OSArch is about]] and are willing to publicly put your name down as agreeing with the principles of OSArch. This can help us quantify those who support OSArch in principle, but are not currently making active contributions.

Part of being an advocate can be participation in online media like forums and social network, and helping to share and publicize the work done related to OSArch.

{|class="wikitable"
! Name (or alias)
! Web reference
! Project
|-
| Your name here? Add yourself!
| A link to your website, social media pages, or other way to verify that you are not just a random word inserted into this table.
| If you use software that helps support OSArch, like Blender or FreeCAD, feel free to let us know which one here!
|-
| Hoss Zamani
| [https://twitter.com/HossZamani twitter]
| IFCOpenShell, BlenderBIM, FreeCAD, Speckle, Ladybug Tools
|-
| Angelos Kontopoulos ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/AngKontop AngKontop]
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/angkontop
| Everything Open-Source Enthusiast (Blender,QGIS,FreeCad,LibreCad)
|-
| Brendan McFarlane ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/brendanmcfoz brendanmcfoz])
| http://www.wsp.com
| BlenderBIM, FreeCAD and others 
|-
| Mucahit Bilal Goker ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/gokermu gokermu])
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/m%C3%BCcahit-bilal-g%C3%B6ker-a44451121/
| Blender, BlenderBIM, GIMP and others
-
|}

== Contributors to OSArch ==

A contributor is an individual who is an advocate of OSArch, but in addition, also contributes to an AEC software in the [[AEC Free Software directory]]. A contribution may be financial, coding, writing documentation, running legal and hardware infrastructure, creating videos, translating, hosting events, bleeding edge bug reporting, extensive forum participation and so on. A contribution is loosely distinguished from advocacy in that it produces an output. If you're interested, you can learn [[how to contribute to OSArch]].

It is up to you if you want to publicly disclose how much money you are financially contributing to projects that relate to OSArch goals. A financial contribution may be to one project, or many, to a single developer, or to a fund. If you publicly disclose it, we are able to transparently track the financial resources currently made available to projects, and this helps make a more informed decision on how to achieve financial sustainability for free software in the AEC industry, as right now data is difficult to obtain. Financial numbers can also help us set more realistic goals in the future.

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Name (link to profile on wiki)
! Happy to help with
! Financial
! Residence(language)
|-
| Your name here?
| 
| 
|
|-
| Dion Moult ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/Moult Moult])
| Hosting OSArch Wiki, OSArch Community Forum, and IRC bot. Coding the BlenderBIM Add-on, and related tools in IfcOpenShell.
| ~70 USD per month (OSArch Infrastructure - server, BlenderBIM Add-on domain name, backup server, Sendgrid email system account)
| Sydney, Australia (english, )
|-
| Duncan Lithgow ([https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=User:Duncan Profile])
| Wiki editing, advocacy, organisation
| 10,00 € / month [https://liberapay.com/FreeCAD/ FreeCAD], [https://my.fsf.org/join membership FSF] $120 annual
| Denmark (english, danish)
|-
| Petru Conduraru ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/condur condur])
| Promoting Open Source for AEC through my podcast and YouTube channel, BIMvoice. I work closely with Dion to put out more content about BlenderBIM. [https://bit.ly/3eYsmHc BIMvoice YouTube Channel]
| TBD
|
|-
| Ryan Schultz ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/theoryshaw theoryshaw])
| Bug reporting, wee bit of coding, wiki editing
| FreeCAD, BlenderBIM, and also exploring an ([https://community.osarch.org/discussion/197/funding-open-source-development-a-stab-at-an-open-and-distributed-method-of-profit-sharing/p1 Experimental Funding Approach])
| Wisconsin, USA (english)
|-
| Brendon Reid ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/breid breid])
| Wiki creation, BlenderBIM bug reporting
| 
|
|-
| Long Hoang Thanh ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/htlcnn htlcnn])
| BlenderBIM Add-on coding
|
| 
|-
| Cyril Waechter ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/Cyril Cyril])
| [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=m&K=Nahouhak&outdated=&SB=n&SO=a&PP=50&do_Search=Go AUR packager] (Arch/Manjaro), coding on IfcOpenShell/BlenderBIM/FreeCAD, bug reports, [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIsRFoaVQNSl_RlGAZE2mVg videos making], wiki editing, open BIM advocating and teaching
| ~2000 €/year shared between IfcOpenShell/BlenderBIM/FreeCAD developers
| Switzerland / France
languages : french(native), english(fluent), german(not fluent)
|-
| Ioannis Christovasilis ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/Jesusbill Jesusbill])
| Monthly meetup coordination, Development of [https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/tree/v0.6.0/src/ifc2ca IfcOpenShell/Ifc2CA], Code_Aster learning material ([https://github.com/Jesusbill/code-aster-examples examples], [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWBV4PbsfizSkmcq88roGeQ/playlists videos])
| 10 €/month support for OSArch/BlenderBIM
| Italy (english/greek/italian)
|-
| Hoss Zamani ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/hzamani hzamani])
| 
| AU$10 /month to Dion Moult's Liberpay account for BlenderBIM
|
|-
| Chun ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/chunchk chunchk])
| Trying to make some UI element
| HKD$40 /month to Dion Moult's Liberpay account for BlenderBIM
| Hong Kong (Cantonese, English, Mandarin)
|-
| Andreas Vest ([https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=User:Andreas_Vest])
| BlenderBIM testing
| Undisclosed
| Denmark (english, danish)
|-
| Marcel Plomp ([https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=User:meetlat])
| BlenderBIM testing, UI concept making
| Undisclosed
| The Netherlands (dutch, english)
|-
| Stephen Leger ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/stephen_l stephen_l])
| Archipack core dev, blenderBim contributor
| Undisclosed
| Somewhere in europe (french, fr-english, portu-gnol)
|-
| Jan Filipec ([https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=User:JanF JanF])
| Representation (Homepage design, maintenance), Education (BlenderBIM Wiki)
| Undisclosed
| Austria (czech, english, german)
|-
| Frederic Beaupere ([https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=User:Fbpyr Fbpyr])
| coding on IfcOpenShell/BlenderBIM, OS-BlenderBIM Addons, bug reports, wiki editing, open BIM advocating and teaching
| Undisclosed on (pyRevit, FreeCAD)
| Europe (english, german)
|- 
| Christoffer Grimshorn ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/CGR])
| Communication/presentations and Blenderbim/ArchiPack testing. 
| ~50 USD to the (https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues/1153.
| Sweden (English, Danish, Swedish)
|- 
| Laurens Oostwegel ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/laurensjn laurensjn ])
| BlenderBIM testing / anything GIS related / bug reports. 
| 
| Slovenia (English, Dutch)
|- 
| Maarten Vroegindeweij ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/MaartenFrough ])
| Bit of Pythoncoding in GIS / Structural Engineer / Pushing the buildingindustry for financial support for FOSS 
| 360 USD/month to FreeCAD Developers via Patreon
| The Netherlands(English, Dutch)
|-
|Bruno Perdigão ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/bruno_perdigao bruno_perdigao])
|News section of OSArch website / Blender BIM testing
|
|Brazil (English, Portuguese)
|-
| Bruno Postle ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/brunopostle brunopostle])
| [https://bitbucket.org/brunopostle/urb/wiki/Home Homemaker] project (evolutionary and interactive design of buildings through Pattern Languages)
|
| Yorkshire, UK (English)
|-
|Ayodele Arigbabu ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/DADA_universe DADA_universe])
|BlenderBIM + Archipack Testing and feedback, OSArch forum participation
|
|Lagos, Nigeria (English)
|-
|Ihab El Aghoury (AGECS' CEO)
|BlenderBIM Testing and Refactoring + implementing Structural Items
|
|Cairo, Egypt (English, Arabic)
|-
|Denis Soto ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/denissoto denissoto])
|Wiki translations to Spanish
|
|Buenos Aires, Argentina (Spanish, English, Portuguese)}
|-
|Kristoffer Andersen ([https://community.osarch.org/profile/krande krande])
|Code contributions to BlenderBIM and related CAD or structural analysis projects
|
|Oslo, Norway (English, Norwegian)}
|-
|Rafael Moya (bitacovir)
|Contributions to FreeCAD's UI, bug reporter and translation. Contributions for OSArch Wiki (software directory, workflow directory).
|
|Chile (Spanis, English)
|}

== Corporate supporters ==

Are you part of a corporation who is willing name the company itself as a supporter of OSArch? Let us know on the [https://community.osarch.org community forums] and let's discuss the opportunities on what this type of relationship implies.