The main purpose of donations to open source is to say "thank you" to the developer rather than actually advancing the project.


Open source projects don’t need the money like those charities do—and so it’s usually phrased like: *Buy the developer a cup of coffee*.


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# Buy me a cup of coffee?

Iris is free and open source but developing it has taken thousands of hours of my time and a large part of my sanity. If you feel this web framework useful to you, it would go a great way to ensuring that I can afford to take the time to continue to develop it.


I spend all my time in the construction of Iris, therefore I have no income value.

Feel free to send **any** amount through paypal

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Some of the benefits are listed here:

- Your github username, after your approval, is visible here as a "premium" community member.
- Access to the 'donors' [private chat room](https://kataras.rocket.chat/group/donors) gives you real-time assistance by Iris' Author.

## More about your donations

[Juan Sebastián Suárez Valencia](https://github.com/Juanses) donated 20 EUR at September 11

[Bob Lee](https://github.com/li3p) donated 20 EUR at September 16

[Celso Luiz](https://github.com/celsosz) donated 50 EUR at September 29 

[Ankur Srivastava](https://github.com/ansrivas) donated 20 EUR at October 2

[Damon Zhao](https://github.com/se77en) donated 20 EUR at October 21

[exponity - consulting & digital transformation](https://github.com/exponity) donated 30 EUR at November 4

[Thomas Fritz](https://github.com/thomasfr) donated 25 EUR at Jenuary 8 of 2017

[Thanos V.](http://mykonosbiennale.com/) donated 20 EUR at Jenuary 16 of 2017

[George Opritescu](https://github.com/International) donated 20 EUR at February 7 of 2017

[Lex Tang](https://github.com/lexrus) donated 20 EUR at February 22 of 2017

*ANONYMOUS* donated 356 EUR, last anonymous donation at March 22 of 2017

> The names, shown at the [legends](https://github.com/kataras/iris#legends-) list, are sorted by **date** and **NOT by the amount** of the donation.


> *ANONYMOUS*: People who donate but don't want to be shown here. *ANONYMOUS* are listed as one group instead of an individual entry, in order to protect their exact date of their donation.

# Thanks for your gratitude and finance help ♡