Contributing
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How you can help
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You can contribute to Sming by

- Providing Pull Requests with new features, bug fixes, new ideas, etc.
- Testing our latest source code and reporting issues.
- Supporting us financially to acquire hardware for testing and implementing or out of gratitude.

See :doc:`/information/develop/index` for details.

Financial contributions
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We welcome financial contributions in full transparency on our `open
collective <https://opencollective.com/Sming>`__ page. They help us
improve the project and the community around it. If you would like to
support us you can `become a
backer <https://opencollective.com/Sming#backer>`__ or `a
sponsor <https://opencollective.com/Sming#sponsor>`__.

In addition to that anyone who is helping this project can file an
expense. If the expense makes sense for the development of the
community, it will be “merged” in the ledger of our open collective by
the core contributors and the person who filed the expense will be
reimbursed.

Backers and sponsors
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Thank you to all the people who have backed Sming or sponsored it.
