From ed01ce5a9dce98527fe456b6f6c2e6ba8003537f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: seaxwi <71350948+seaxwi@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:22:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Arduino no longer accepts donations --- .../Contribute/Contribute-to-Arduino.md | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ content/About Arduino/Contribute/Donations.md | 10 +++++++ .../img/.keep | 0 .../How-is-the-donation-used.md | 6 ---- ...-this-donation-tax-deductible-in-the-US.md | 6 ---- .../What-will-your-donation-contribute-to.md | 17 ----------- ...e-can-I-view-information-on-my-donation.md | 6 ---- 7 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/About Arduino/Contribute/Contribute-to-Arduino.md create mode 100644 content/About Arduino/Contribute/Donations.md rename content/About Arduino/{Donate to Arduino => Contribute}/img/.keep (100%) delete mode 100644 content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/How-is-the-donation-used.md delete mode 100644 content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Is-this-donation-tax-deductible-in-the-US.md delete mode 100644 content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/What-will-your-donation-contribute-to.md delete mode 100644 content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Where-can-I-view-information-on-my-donation.md diff --git a/content/About Arduino/Contribute/Contribute-to-Arduino.md b/content/About Arduino/Contribute/Contribute-to-Arduino.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6060f448 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/About Arduino/Contribute/Contribute-to-Arduino.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: "Contribute to Arduino" +--- + +Learn how to contribute to Arduino open source projects. + +--- + +## Engage in the community + +Contribute by providing help and inspiration to other users: + +* Share projects on [Arduino Project Hub](https://projecthub.arduino.cc/). +* Provide support and add to the discussion in the official [Arduino forum](https://forum.arduino.cc/). + +## Contribute to open source Arduino projects on GitHub + +You can contribute to many projects by submitting issues and pull requests on GitHub: + +* Arduino development tools, like [Arduino IDE](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide), [Arduino CLI](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli). +* Board cores, such as [AVR](https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr), [Mbed](https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-mbed), and [Renesas](https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-renesas). +* Contribute to the documentation on [Arduino Docs](https://github.com/arduino/docs-content) and the [Arduino Help Center](https://github.com/arduino/help-center-content). + +[Find more projects on github.com/arduino](https://www.arduino.cc/en/contribute/){.link-chevron-right} + +## Create and share libraries + +Submit new libraries to the [Arduino Library Manager index](https://github.com/arduino/library-registry). diff --git a/content/About Arduino/Contribute/Donations.md b/content/About Arduino/Contribute/Donations.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..987a4080 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/About Arduino/Contribute/Donations.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +title: "Donations" +id: 360017233680 +--- + +Arduino company is no longer soliciting monetary donations. If you have questions about a previous donation, please [contact us](https://www.arduino.cc/en/contact-us/). + +If you’d like to support the Arduino open-source project, there are many other ways to contribute. Whether you’re a developer, hardware engineer, linguist, or jack of all trades, your help is always appreciated. + +[Learn how to contribute to Arduino](https://www.arduino.cc/en/contribute/){.link-chevron-right} diff --git a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/img/.keep b/content/About Arduino/Contribute/img/.keep similarity index 100% rename from content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/img/.keep rename to content/About Arduino/Contribute/img/.keep diff --git a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/How-is-the-donation-used.md b/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/How-is-the-donation-used.md deleted file mode 100644 index c3a60710..00000000 --- a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/How-is-the-donation-used.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "How is the donation used?" -id: 360017232340 ---- - -The team that develops the Arduino open source technology consists of engineers, designers, testers and many more actors. Your donation empowers their work, that includes developing new features and open source tools and providing the build and download infrastructure for our IDE. They work actively on improving libraries, documentation and writing tutorials that can help millions of users to get started. Their work also includes fixing bugs, reviewing and implementing libraries submitted from the community. diff --git a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Is-this-donation-tax-deductible-in-the-US.md b/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Is-this-donation-tax-deductible-in-the-US.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6959a1a0..00000000 --- a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Is-this-donation-tax-deductible-in-the-US.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Is this donation tax deductible in the US?" -id: 360017232360 ---- - -Unfortunately, this donation is not tax deductible in the US. diff --git a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/What-will-your-donation-contribute-to.md b/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/What-will-your-donation-contribute-to.md deleted file mode 100644 index d86f6d90..00000000 --- a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/What-will-your-donation-contribute-to.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "What will your donation contribute to?" -id: 360017233680 ---- - -Your contribution counts towards the development of the Arduino open source software. We believe that software should be free to be used by anyone, and we want to ensure that it is kept that way. - -The Arduino tools and libraries are being used by millions of people worldwide, including schools, companies, workshops and many third party products designed specifically to be used with this software. Donations ensure that these efforts continue to evolve, improve and are maintained regularly. - -Your donation is used to improve our open source efforts which are free and available for everyone. Some of these efforts include: - -* The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) -* arduino-cli -* Libraries -* Arduino API for AVR, SAM, SAMD, mbed and more -* Documentation and tutorials -* Forum and community initiatives diff --git a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Where-can-I-view-information-on-my-donation.md b/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Where-can-I-view-information-on-my-donation.md deleted file mode 100644 index 13bb9dce..00000000 --- a/content/About Arduino/Donate to Arduino/Where-can-I-view-information-on-my-donation.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Where can I view information on my donation?" -id: 360017283959 ---- - -You can see the summary of your donations on your profile page, accessed at the top right corner of any page.