Help for Supporters
Help the project grow: contribute code, documentation, translations and testing, and share what you build.
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- Supporters: start here The landing page for everyone who wants to help Exponential - individuals and companies. Why the project ne...
- Community: start here The landing page for Exponential Community members - the people who use, contribute to, promote and develop...
- The Exponential project: start here A map of the Exponential project as its website exponential.earth presents it, mapped onto this help - what...
- Exponential: frequently asked questions The answers of the FAQ on exponential.earth, retold and checked against the software - what Exponential is...
- Contribute to the project: every way to help build Exponential How to take part in building Exponential, following the "Support Exponential!" FAQ and the community pages...
- The Exponential code of conduct The code of conduct of the Exponential project - the Contributor Covenant 2.1 with Exponential additions fo...
Good to know
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Give and donate: fund the work on Exponential
The "Give Support" page of exponential.earth explained - becoming a partner, donating, a sustaining support subscription, sponsoring new software from 7x, GitHub Sponsors for 7x and for the Exponential Foundation…
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What the Exponential Community is
Who belongs to the Exponential Community, what its members do, the organizations inside it, what the community is not, and what the sources do not say about it.
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Your first week in the community
Seven days, one small step a day - from reading the code of conduct to making your first contribution - for anyone who is new to the Exponential Community.
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Community reading path
The order in which to read the community section of the Exponential help - a core path of ten pages for every community member, and short extra paths for contributors, helpers, organizers and companies.
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Community FAQ
Short answers to the questions people ask about the Exponential Community - joining, cost, where to ask, contributing without code, the CLA, conduct, events, official status, recognition, and the difference between the…
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Community glossary
The words community members meet around Exponential - from CLA, dev-main and eZpedia to manifest, partner, Share, squash and tag - each explained in one or two sentences with a link to the page that says more.
Support Exponential
Exponential is free software. Every new feature, help page, extension, theme and application is work that somebody pays for with their time. A sustaining monthly sponsorship, of any size, keeps that work going and lets it grow.
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7x
The company that leads Exponential and the first sponsor of the project: it develops, supports and hosts it and makes the releases.
Your sponsorship pays for:
- Monthly releases and the work that keeps the lights on
- Security patches to the libraries Exponential builds on, such as Zeta Components
- New features given back to the community as open source
- The bridges, forks and tools around the platform
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Exponential Foundation
The nonprofit that operates the open source project and is dedicated to its funding, adoption, support, education, development, promotion and documentation.
Your sponsorship pays for:
- Maintenance of the core libraries
- Documentation, tutorials, how-tos and FAQs
- Integration layers: GraphQL, REST and Solr
- Community infrastructure: chat, mirrors, wikis and developer resources
A monthly sponsorship, even a small one, is planned income: it pays for work that one-time gifts cannot keep going. What sponsorship funds
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All pages for Supporters- Community checklists Checklists for Exponential community members to copy - before posting, before filing a bug, before a pull request, before answering, befo...
- A free site for your user group Give your local Exponential user group or meetup a website that costs nothing and that several organizers can keep up to date - edited in...
- Joining the community The landing page of the joining part of the community section - where people meet, how to introduce yourself, how to ask a question that...
- Where the community meets Every place the documentation names where Exponential Community members meet - forums, Telegram, Discord, Slack, eZpedia, Projects, GitHu...
- The code of conduct for community members What the Exponential Code of Conduct asks of community members - the Contributor Covenant 2.1 with Exponential additions - where it appli...
- Introducing yourself to the community How to introduce yourself in the Exponential forums or chats - what to say, what to leave out, a template to copy, and how to reply when...
- Contributing as a community member The landing page of the contributing part of the community section - every way a community member can contribute to Exponential, what eac...
- Ways to support Exponential Every way to support Exponential compared in one place - code, documentation, translations, testing, community help, advocacy, funding, p...
- Ways to contribute Every way a community member can contribute to Exponential, compared by the skills and time each needs and the difference it makes - from...
- Your first contribution Three small first contributions to Exponential, step by step - a corrected help page through Edit on GitHub, a well-made bug report throu...
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