directus/docs/getting-started/supporting-directus.md

Supporting Directus

Directus is both premium and free — two things that don't often go together. It takes significant resources to maintain and advance the platform. If you'd like to help keep Directus active and open-source please consider supporting it through one of the methods below.

Financial Support

Talented full-time and part-time staff, infrastructure, and third-party services are just some of our organization's expenses, and revenue from our Cloud services and donations from sponsors dosen't fully cover those costs. Below are a few ways to help us keep the lights on and move towards self-sufficiency.

• GitHub Sponsors — Monthly donations via GitHub Sponsors are the most reliable form of financial support, and donations made directly to our core developers are currently doubled by GitHub's matching program!
  • rijkvanzanten — Technical Lead
  • WoLfulus —
  • Nitwel —
• Merch — Our merchandise is a great way to support Directus – you get a shirt and we get some financial support and advertising. Simply make an appropriate financial donation through GitHub Sponsors, message us with sizing/shipping details, and we'll get it shipped!
• Commissioned Features — If you need to an interface, layout, or other custom feature – just reach out to our parent company to design and build it for you. If it can be merged into our Core codebase then it even benefits the entire community!
• Expedited Fixes — We triage all reported bugs based on priority and how long the fix is estimated to take. If you need a specific issue resolved sooner, reach out to us for a quote.
• Premium Support — See Premium Support

Other Contributions

Even without financial or even technical knowledge, it's still super easy to help out. Below are several ways anyone can help improve our ecosystem.

• Code Pull Requests — Squashing bugs, optimizing the codebase, increasing test coverage, and adding new features, are all extremely valuable. Learn more in our Contributors Guide.
• Docs — Not technical? We have plenty of documentation that can always use some extra attention. Fixing spelling errors, writing new articles, or checking for broken links... it all helps.
• Translations — Every translation enables users in new locales to use our international platform. Our Crowdin integration makes polishing existing translations or creating new ones a breeze.
• Bug Reporting — If you encounter an issue within Directus, no matter how small, we would love to hear about it. Proper bug reporing helps our team assess the platform's stability.
• Brand Advocacy — You can create perfect software, but if no one knows about it, it's all for naught. Marketing and advertising are expensive, but you can help us avoid these costs through the following:
  • GitHub Stars — The primary metric by which we measure our success. It only takes five seconds to head to directus/directus and click the star — enough in a short period of time and Directus gets featured on GitHub's trending page.
  • Social Posts — A quick post mentioning @directus goes a long way, and we re-tweet some of our favorite shout-outs to our 30K+ followers.
  • Testimonials — One sentence. Even that was a sentence, and it was only two words! If you're a fan of Directus, we'd love to hear why with a short endorsement. Shoot us an email, Tweet, or Discord message your name, title, and company