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* [3.2 Announcement][3.2-announcement]
* [3.3 Announcement][3.3-announcement]
* [Kickstarter Announcement][kickstarter-announcement]
* [Mozilla Grant][mozilla-grant]
* [Funding][funding]
* [Release Notes][release-notes]

## Development
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[3.2-announcement]: topics/3.2-announcement.md
[3.3-announcement]: topics/3.3-announcement.md
[kickstarter-announcement]: topics/kickstarter-announcement.md
[mozilla-grant]: topics/mozilla-grant.md
[funding]: topics/funding.md
[release-notes]: topics/release-notes.md

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# Funding

> As a direct result of [a successful Mozilla grant application](mozilla-grant.md), I will be leaving my current role at [DabApps](http://www.dabapps.com), and attempting to secure a sustainable business model for REST framework development. I need your help in order to make this work.
>
> &mdash; Tom Christie

If you use REST framework commercially we strongly encourage you to invest in its continued development by signing up for a paid plan.

**We believe that collaboratively funded software can offer outstanding returns on investment, by allowing users and clients to collectively share the cost of development.**
**We believe that collaboratively funded software can offer outstanding returns on investment, by encouraging our users to collectively share the cost of development.**

Signing up for a paid plan will:

* Directly contribute to faster releases, more features and higher quality software.
* Allow more time to be invested in documentation, issue triage and community support.
* Directly contribute to faster releases, more features, and higher quality software.
* Allow more time to be invested in documentation, issue triage, and community support.
* Safeguard the future development of REST framework.

REST framework will always be open source and permissively licensed, but we firmly believe it is in the commercial best-interest for users of the project to fund its ongoing development.
REST framework continues to be open-source and permissively licensed, but we firmly believe it is in the commercial best-interest for users of the project to invest in its ongoing development.

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## Making the business case

Our successful Kickstarter campaign demonstrates the cost-reward ratio of shared development funding.
Our [successful Kickstarter campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest-framework-3) demonstrates the impressive cost-reward ratio of shared funding of open-source software.

With *typical corporate fundings of just £100-£1000 per organization* we successfully delivered:

* The comprehensive 3.0 serializer redesign.
* The comprehensive serializer redesign, and **version 3.0 release**.
* Ongoing triage and community support, **closing over 1600 tickets**.
* Substantial improvements to the Browsable API.
* The admin interface.
* A new pagination API including offset/limit and cursor pagination implementations, plus on-page controls.
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* Internationalization support for API responses, currently with 27 languages.
* The metadata APIs for handling `OPTIONS` requests and schema endpoints.
* Numerous minor improvements and better quality throughout the codebase.
* Ongoing triage and community support, closing over 1600 tickets.

This incredible level of return on investment is *only possible through collaboratively funded models*, which is why we believe that supporting our paid plans is in everyone's best interest.

Sign up for a paid plan today, and help ensure that REST framework becomes a sustainable, full-time funded project.

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## Individual plan
## Freelancer plan

This subscription is recommended for freelancers and other individuals with an interest in seeing REST framework continue to&nbsp;improve.

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Once you've signed up I'll contact you via email and arrange your ad placements on the site.

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## Roadmap

Although we're incredibly proud of REST framework in its current state we believe there is still huge scope for improvement. What we're aiming for here is a *highly polished, rock solid product*. This needs to backed up with impeccable documentation and a great third party ecosystem.

The roadmap below is a broad indication of just some of the ongoing and future work we believe is important to REST framework.

* Increasing our "bus factor" through documented organizational process & safeguards.
* More time towards testing and hardening releases, with only gradual, well-documented deprecations.
* A formal policy on security backports for non-current releases.
* Continuing triage & community support.
* Improved project documentation, including versioned & internationalized docs.
* Improved third party package visibility.
* Refining the admin interface, ensuring it has a fully customizable API and making it suitable as end-user facing application.
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* Benchmarking and performance improvements.
* In depth documentation on advanced usage and best practices.
* Documentation & support for integration with realtime systems.
* Hypermedia support and client libraries.
* Support for JSON schema as endpoints or `OPTIONS` responses.
* API metric tools.
* Debug & logging tools.
* Third party GraphQL support.

By taking out a paid plan you'll be directly contributing towards making these features happen.
## Accountability

In order to ensure that I can be fully focused on trying to secure a sustainable
& well-funded open source business I will be leaving my current role at [DabApps](http://www.dabapps.com)
at the end of May 2016.

I have formed a UK limited company, [Encode](http://www.encode.io), which will
act as the business entity behind REST framework. I will be issuing monthly reports
from Encode on progress both towards the [Mozilla grant](mozilla-grant.md), and for development time
funded via the REST framework paid plans.

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