Like all Open Source projects, MariaDB thrives because of the community around it. We've been asked on many occasions "What can I do to help?" and we direct people to our "Contributing" page in the MariaDB Knowledgebase as a good starting point: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/contributing The above page lists various ways to contribute to MariaDB including obvious things like helping with development, reporting bugs, creating test cases, helping with documentation and translation, and so on. For those who want to support the project but don't have software development or other technical skills to offer, we have a donations page: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/donations This page details how you can donate things like CPU time to run a buildslave, among other things. It also, by request, includes a PayPal donate button for those who prefer to support MariaDB that way. The PayPal button is great, but we thought it would be nice for people who donate to get something physical in return. Inspired by the EFF, NPR, PBS, and other non-profit entities, we thought it would be neat to create a donations page that offered an exclusive t-shirt or other item in return for a donation. One of the quickest ways to do this is through CafePress, so that's what we've done: http://www.cafepress.com/mariadb Please check it out and let us know what you think!* All proceeds go directly to support MariaDB development, so don't think of it as purchasing a t-shirt, think of it as donating to support a worthy project and awesome product... and you get a t-shirt as a nice bonus! Thanks. -- MariaDB: An Enhanced Drop-in Replacement for MySQL Website - http://mariadb.org Twitter - http://twitter.com/mariadb Google+ - http://google.com/+mariadb Facebook - http://fb.com/MariaDB.dbms Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com * Contact Us - http://montyprogram.com/contact