We believe in open source
Empowering Open-Source
We write massive amounts of code. We've contributed a lot of code to Orchard Core and many commits to Orchard CMS as well (you can see what we'll possibly contribute next here) We're the stewards and contribute continously to Orchard Core Commerce, the ecommerce module for Orchard Core. Apart from our direct contributions we've published well over 100 open-source modules and themes for Orchard. Among these is the Training Demo Module, the go-to beginner's guide for aspiring Orchard developers. Our Orchard Core extensions, as well as other suitable open-source projects of ours we also publish on NuGet.
To help people get going with and be informed about Orchard, we run the Orchard learning site Orchard Dojo. This includes free tutorials, other learning resources, and a top-rated weekly blog post series on what happens in the Orchard community (it's also available as a newsletter).
So others can see Orchard in action, we publish Orchard videos on our YouTube channel. This includes the recordings of the Orchard community's weekly meetings, Orchard Core demos, video tutorials, and more.
As a gallery of exemplary Orchard websites, we run Show Orchard.
To serve as the heartbeat of the Orchard blogosphere, we've created Orchard Blogs, an aggregated stream of Orchard-related blog posts.
So people can try Orchard CMS without anything; we host Try Orchard!! Where you can test-drive Orchard on demo sites. This runs on DotNest, our public Orchard SaaS.
We also constantly give feedback and share our opinions during our weekly meetings and in the issue tracker so that we can help steer the project in the right direction and provide a hand to fellow Orchard contributors and users when needed.
Our financial contributions to open-source
Being an established company, we can also contribute financially to open-source projects, to the ones we find most valuable. These are the projects and developers we currently support continuously:
Antoine Griffard
One of the main developers of Orchard Core.
Atata
A great library for UI testing, extending Selenium.
Gérald Barré
Developer of a very useful analyzer project and owner of a blog with great content.
Hisham Bin Ateya
One of the main developers of Orchard Core.
Jasmin Savard
One of the main developers of Orchard Core.
Kévin Chalet
The main developer of Orchard Core's OpenID integration.
Mike Alhayek
One of the main developers of Orchard Core.
Oleksii Holub
Developer of the great library CliWrap that helps our apps consume CLI processes.
Sébastien Ros
One of the main developers of Orchard Core and several libraries it uses.
Kristian Hellang
Author of the Scrutor library, what we frequently use for C# decorators.
Former sponsorships
Every year, we re-evaluate which developers and projects we want to sponsor. We allocate our budget in a way that we can have the most positive impact, supporting active developers who don't otherwise get a lot of attention. We formerly had the below sponsorships as well, but at one point we decided that others would benefit from our funds more. They're still great developers!
Browserslist
An important glue in our Node.js build pipelines.
DataTables
An excellent interactive table control.
Dean Marcussen
One of the main developers of Orchard Core.
Git Extensions
A great graphical client for the Git source control system, to which we pledged to contribute every month via Open Collective.
Jean-Thierry Kéchichian
Was one of the main developers of Orchard Core. Tragically, passed away in 2023, but will forever remain an honorable member of the Orchard Core community.
RestEase
A REST API client library that's a joy to use.
Sebastian Silbermann
Developer of the label merge-conflict action GitHub Actions action that helps with the maintenance of all of our projects.
Security Code Scan
C# code analyzer that automatically detects security issues, thus keeping our apps safe.
Shouldly
A great fluent assertion library that we've been using in our tests for quite a while.
Ad-hoc sponsorships
Occasionally we also sponsor ad-hoc fixes to other projects too, like the following ones:
WebDriverManager.Net
Atata.HtmlValidation
Whole project development.
Send us your project!
We periodically check on the people and projects we sponsor to see if they're still active, as well as add new ones. We're on the lookout for more amazing projects, so certainly let us know if you know of one! We want to support smaller, less popular but still important projects that are otherwise under the radar of most people.
Note that while some of the open-source contributors we support also do contract work with us, the support is independent of that: We don't and will never ask for any favours in exchange, the support is for the contributor's existing activities.
Open-source and open hearts
Apart from the software world we also try to help in other communities with our philanthropic activities. Most recently, we've delivered thousands of reusable masks to the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as help for refugees of the war in Ukraine, and again, and again. Recently, we also helped homeless people.
Contact usWould you like to contribute to our projects?
That would be really fantastic! If you've found one of our projects valuable and you'd like to contribute in any way please check out our guidelines and go ahead, we'd be very happy to welcome your efforts! Also, consider contributing, in-kind or otherwise, to the projects supported by us.
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