DWService development is carried out largely by a group of volunteers, that in time have built up a service used freely by anyone. As a result of this volunteer approach, a number of tasks, less interesting or important for the developers, are sometimes left behind. In addition, promoting DWService requires our participation at meeting, events and the production of information material, sometimes very expensive for volunteer developers. Meanwhile, many organizations have made an investment in using DWService as part of their operations, but have not had a way to directly contribute to the success and long-term health of the project.

We would like to extend our activities and improve the quality of DWService. For that reason we now offer subscriptions. Your financial contributions will support the maintenance, improvement, and promotion of DWService. Subscriptions are not a way for individuals to control the development of the project, they are not mandatory either. Instead, subscriptions are a way of ensuring the longevity and overall health of the project. In order to formalize ingoing and outgoing money transactions, we have created a new company based in EU.

You can support the DWService development with the following financial contributions:

DWService.net annual gold subscription	USD 1000
DWService.net annual silver subscription	USD 600
DWService.net annual bronze subscription	USD 300
DWService.net free subscription	Pay what you want to contribute

Subscription provides the following benefits:

• Ensure the sustainability and health of the DWService project.
• All subscribers will be listed on this page, ordered by subscription class (Gold, Silver, Bronze) with a link back to the subscriber.
  • Gold subscribers with a large size logo (60k pixel/300x200px)
  • Silver subscribers with a medium size logo (30k pixel/200x150px)
  • Bronze subscribers with a small size logo (6k pixel/100x60px)
• All subscribers have a maximum bandwidth greater than the basic users.
  • Gold subscribers have a maximum bandwidth of 18,8Mbps (on a best effort basis)
  • Silver subscribers have a maximum bandwidth of 12.5Mbps (on a best effort basis)
  • Bronze subscribers have a maximum bandwidth of 9.4Mbps (on a best effort basis)
• All subscribers will be allowed to use a special version of the DWService logo on their web site, which shows they are supporters of the DWService project.
• All subscribers will have the technical support, latest bug fixes and updates.

How do we use financial support:

Subscriptions will directly help improve the code base of the project, to fund tasks that generally receive less attention from developers, and to fund work on peripheral project tasks so that core contributors can focus efforts on DWService improvements.

As an example, we would like to fund the following project activities:

• Fund developers to work on specific aspects of DWService including implementing new features and fixing bugs
• Improvement of infrastructure (Servers, Network, High Availability, Backup)
• Improvement of documentation, workshop materials and tutorials
• Implementation of a particular feature (if sponsorship is sufficient)

Free subscriptions

Free subscriptions can be of any amount, even a small amount can make a big difference and help to reach important project goals! Subscribers will be listed on this page upon request, but do not receive the additional benefits listed above. If you have have been a free subscriber wish to appear in this list (no links!), please send an email at staff@dwservice.net.

Subscribers