source/committers/funding-disclaimer.md

---
title: Funding campaign disclaimer
tags: ["crowdfunding","funding","pmc"]
---

Some Apache committers have successfully run funding campaigns to support their work on their favorite Apache projects.

This is ok in principle, but you have to make it clear that the campaign is your own thing, and avoid any confusion about the role of the 
ASF and how its projects work.

This page gives a few examples of how to do that.

If you have any question about this, feel free to ask on our 
[dev@community.apache.org](https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@community.apache.org) mailing list.

## Example disclaimer for a personal crowdfunding campaign

Here's a nice example, based on a disclaimer one committer has used:


```text
    Disclaimers: This campaign is done by me, FOO, as an independent individual, not
    by the Apache Software Foundation nor the Apache BAR project. I'm not representing
    the Foundation in any way in this campaign, nor does Apache endorse it. The
    Foundation has a policy of not paying for development work. All its members are
    voluntary, me included. Any code I'll write or change will have to pass the usual BAR
    team approval process. If this campaign isn't funded, I'll continue participating
    in the BAR project in the same way as before.
```

See also the [discussion thread](https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201310.mbox/%3Cop.w4fwv6ewovlrp5%40arsmachina%3E) about this
campaign.

## Friends of Apache Groovy

[Friends of Apache Groovy](https://opencollective.com/friends-of-groovy) has another good example which supports activities 
in the Apache Groovy community.

The [explanation in their 'about' section](https://opencollective.com/friends-of-groovy#section-about) makes it clear that the 
initiative is _not_ affiliated with or driven by the ASF, and also that any contributions, funded or not, have to go 
through the usual Apache Groovy acceptance process.