Fundraising campaign to sustain GNU Guix

Fundraising campaign to sustain GNU Guix

Steve George — September 29, 2025

Today we're launching a fundraising campaign to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix. Guix is completely independent from any company or institution, we rely on the support of our community to fund the project. If you can, please help sustain Guix by making a donation.

Why we need your support

Like many Free Software projects we need financial support because running a project is expensive. We incur costs for development infrastructure, facilitating developer collaboration and supporting the community around the project.

As a package manager and GNU/Linux distribution Guix has some unique needs. As the distribution grows and becomes more popular our costs also grow. Each package that's added to the distribution increases the number of builds. And, as more people use Guix the cost of delivering those packages also grows.

Sustain Guix

To be sustainable we need to match our expenses with our incoming donations. This gives the project certainty that there won't be a sudden funding shortfall.

Currently, shortfalls happen. Even recently individual volunteers have had to step in and fund services from their own pockets. That's risky and unsustainable, so we're aiming for stable financial foundations.

To achieve that goal we need €15,000 (roughly $17,500) of donations a year. This would pay for the current infrastructure and project expenses.

To be sustainable recurring donations are critical because they provide a regular stream of income that can pay for the ongoing shared resources that we all use. For example, to have a better build farm we'd need more hosting and bandwidth which is a recurring cost.

So is the goal achievable? Well, it's definitely a big goal. But, it's only €1,250 a month - so if 125 people contribute €10 a month that would get us to the target and make all the difference!

Strengthen Guix

We would love to do more, and if there's support from the community then we will. There's lots more we could do! If there's more funding then we'll be able strengthen Guix by expanding the infrastructure, investing more to support the project and promote Guix.

With more support we'd be able to do things like:

• Improve the overall resilience of our infrastructure so that services are more reliable.
• Do more to increase the substitute infrastructure's bandwith and distribution.
• Tell more people about Guix by attending events, organising user sprints and conferences.

Donate Now to Sustain Guix

Now's the time where we ask for your help. Please donate to sustain and strengthen Guix.

You can donate through either the FSF or the Guix Foundation using a variety of payment methods.

If you haven't heard of the Guix Foundation it's an EU-based non-profit that's dedicated to supporting the development and promotion of GNU Guix. It's a members-driven association, so by becoming a member you'll be supporting Guix and will have a voice in it's activities.

Every donations helps, Recurring donations are ideal, but we appreciate any support you can give. Every donation gets us a step closer to being sustainable.

Thank you for your support!

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