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essarily equate to food or shelter. If you're part of an organization making free use of
eXist, there are a number of ways that you can contribute back to the community:
Sponsor features or bug fixes
Perhaps there is some feature that you wish that eXist had that would really help
your project, or there is a bug that sometimes upsets your system. Your organiza‐
tion could financially sponsor a developer from the eXist community to add this
feature or resolve that issue. Sponsoring eXist developers for small or large
projects helps support them in their work on eXist and could provide new or
improved functionality to the community. If you want to give something back
financially but have no specific features or bug fixes in mind, just get in touch via
eXist-open and the community will helpfully propose a project to meet your
budget.
Friday afternoon eXist
If you have developers in your organization, empowering them to spend a small
amount of their paid work time contributing to the development of eXist can
also be a great way to give back to the community. For example, Google allows its
developers to work on open source projects on Friday afternoons and has real‐
ized various benefits from this.
Contracts and jobs
Are you looking for someone who is an expert in eXist and XQuery and/or XML
technologies? The eXist-open mailing list can be a great place to advertise. You
will more than likely end up sponsoring one of the contributors to eXist, as they
tend to be the people who really know it inside and out.
Support and maintenance contracts
If you're serious about using eXist in your projects and running production sys‐
tems on it, you will more than likely want the support and operational security
afforded by purchasing a support contract for it. eXist Solutions provides a vari‐
ety of support contracts and consultancy services for eXist. It was founded by
core developers of eXist and contributes almost all of its resources back into
developing the software. By working with eXist Solutions, you are closely sup‐
porting and funding eXist's development.
Authors Using eXist
If you're an author using eXist, here's how you can contribute:
Documentation
eXist has a large set of documentation that accompanies it, but it is by no means
complete or exhaustive. You do not have to be a developer to write documenta‐
tion for eXist, and all improvements to the documentation are warmly accepted.
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