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If you are not sure or not able to commit to a regular donation, but still want to help the project, you can do a one-time donation, of any amount.

Choose freely the amount you wish to donate one time only.

We call sponsoring the act of donating money recurrently to the FreeCAD project. You can do that as an individual or as a company or institution, through different channels or platforms, depending on your preferences.

Sponsoring FreeCAD allows its developers to count on a steady flow of income, so it allows the FPA to plan things ahead, and the FreeCAD developers to invest themselves more seriously into FreeCAD.

To encourage persons and companies to sponsor the FreeCAD project, we have created different sponsoring tiers. When donating regularly to the project, unless you prefer to stay anonymous, your name, company name and/or logo will be featured on this website, depending on the tier you fit into:

  • ♥ Normal sponsor : from 1 USD / 1 EUR per month. You will not have your name displayed here, but you will have helped the project a lot anyway. Together, normal sponsors maintain the project on its feet as much as the bigger sponsors.
  • 🥉 Bronze sponsor : from 25 USD / 25 EUR per month. Your name or company name is displayed on this page.
  • 🥈 Silver sponsor : from 100 USD / 100 EUR per month. Your name or company name is displayed on this page, with a link to your website, and a one-line description text.
  • 🥇 Gold sponsor : from 200 USD / 200 EUR per month. Your name or company name and logo displayed on this page, with a link to your website and a custom description text. Companies that have helped FreeCAD early on also appear under Gold sponsors.

Instead of donating each month, you might find it more comfortable to make a one-time donation that, when divided by twelve, would give you right to enter a sponsoring tier. Don't hesitate to do so!

Choose freely the amount you wish to donate each month.

Please inform your forum name or twitter handle as a notein your transfer, or reach to us, so we can give you proper credits!

GSoC Checklist

Below is a checklist to help students get set up quickly. Items are categorized to help you prepare your application, get set up to work, and become familiarized with basic infrastructure.

Applying

  1. Check out our Project Ideas
  2. Introduce yourself! Don\'t be shy. The main place where the FreeCAD community meets is the FreeCAD forum. Create yourself an account, introduce yourself, and tell a bit about what you would like to do with FreeCAD or ask for ideas. You can post for example under the Open discussion section or the GSoC section.
  3. Begin your application, see GSoC Application Guidelines
  4. See proposal ideas on the Google Summer of Code 2024 page, or make up your own idea!
  5. Discuss and share your project details on the forum (don\'t wait, the sooner the better your proposal can be!)
  6. Submit your application
  7. Wait for the results

When you get selected

  1. Read the BRL-CAD requirementsand expectations. FreeCAD is not applying under the BRL-CAD umbrella anymore, but we still follow the same guidelines and ways of doing. We will request that you commit to your work, and communicate often.
  2. Set up an interaction schedule with your mentors
  3. Get familiarized with web resources: Homepage, Wiki, Forum
  4. Post your proposal online. Create a thread for your project under the GSoC forum.
  5. Describe your project plan
  6. Document a list of 3 to 10 milestones
  7. Announce your plan on the forum
  8. Download or clone the source code, and make sure you are able to compile FreeCAD successfully (compile, install, run) Source & Compiling

Once coding begins

  1. Write maintainable, portable, complete code
  2. Keep a daily log of your activities on your forum thread
  3. Provide a midterm report on your project progress to your forum thread
  4. Stay motivated, engage other devs, allocate time for discussions
  5. Provide a final report on your project progress to the mailing list
  6. Keep working on FreeCAD :-)
  7. Submit patches to get familiarized with code; find small tasks like these

⏵ documentation index > GSoC Checklist

This page is retrieved from https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-documentation/blob/main/wiki/GSoC_Checklist.md

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