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Doação rápida: Conta da equipa FreeCAD

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Opções
Existe uma conta oficial da equipe FreeCAD; doe via cartão de crédito, Paypal ou transferência bancária SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area). Todo o dinheiro recebido aqui é dividido igualmente entre os programadores listados. Esta é a opção ideal, visto que ajuda diretamente os programadores.

Existe uma conta Bountysource; para doar dinheiro para o projeto FreeCAD como um todo, ou oferecer uma "recompensa" para resolver um problema ou erro específico. Esta é uma opção interessante porque a sua doação pode ser utilizada especificamente numa determinada área. Contudo, a utilização do dinheiro da Bountysource é um processo mais complexo para nós, e pode haver um atraso entre a transferência da doação e o dinheiro cair na conta para o uso efetivo.


 * Support the web hosting costs by donating directly to Jürgen Riegel's paypal account. Jürgen is the original developer of FreeCAD.


 * Some developers will do a specific task for money or can be sponsored to spend time working on FreeCAD. There have been a couple of successful experiments in the past, such as the Path Workbench or Ian Rees's funding experiment. At the moment, the following developers can be sponsored:
 * Yorik via patreonporange.png Patreon or Liberapay_logo.svg Liberapay (Draft, Arch, BIM, IFC)
 * Kurt Kremitzki via patreonporange.png Patreon or Liberapay_logo.svg Liberapay (infrastructure, servers, packaging, Debian/Ubuntu)
 * Lei Zheng aka Realthunder via PayPal, Liberapay_logo.svg Liberapay or patreonporange.png Patreon (App Link, Assembly3)
 * Lorenz aka looooo via Liberapay_logo.svg Liberapay (FCGears workbench, Conda packaging)
 * Amritpal Singh aka amrit3701 via Liberapay_logo.svg Liberapay or patreonporange.png Patreon (Rebar addon)
 * Brad Collette aka sliptonic via Liberapay_logo.svg Liberapay or patreonporange.png Patreon (Path Workbench)

Jobs

 * There might be other developers interested in doing specific work for the project; if you would like to accelerate the development of an idea or feature, consider employing a developer. It's up to you to build up an idea, discuss it on the forum, and find developers interested in doing it. You can offer a job in the Job offers subforum.
 * Modelling jobs are also welcome. Not every experienced FreeCAD user is a developer. Experienced users can help you migrate your projects to FreeCAD, which contributes with popularizing the software in organizations. See FreeCAD used in production.

The situation
At the moment FreeCAD is a very small project with a limited team of developers. Most of us have day jobs, and work on FreeCAD during our free time. Having more money would not change this situation significantly. However, some of us have a more flexible work schedule where money can make a difference.

There is also the problem that we have no structure (foundation, association, NGO, etc.) to collect money. Setting up such a structure represents a huge effort (lawyer, accountant, reports, administrative tasks). The small team of FreeCAD would spend all its time doing this instead of developing, even if we could collect enough money to support it. This article explains the problem pretty well. We are however evaluating joining an umbrella organization, which may remedy the situation greatly.

This is the time of crowdfunding, where all kinds of projects and ideas can sometimes raise a lot of money and interest. Why not invent something new that could be done for FreeCAD with money, or help with finding better solutions? Feel free to discuss it on the forum, About funding and all that.