Contributing to the project
asciinema is open-source software and the service at asciinema.org is made available free of charge to anyone. A lot of effort is put in this project and it's developed exclusively in free time. If you find the service useful, you think it's a great idea or you believe in giving back to the open-source community please consider making a financial donation or putting your time to improve the project.
Supporting an open-source project feels great. And you can do it in many ways. Here is a list of a few things you can do to show your appreciation and help asciinema.
Donating
While the service is free of charge for anyone it still requires servers, domains, SSL certificates, storage for backups and other resources to keep it running.
Consider a donation to help cover these costs. Be it once, be it regularly, be it a small or a big amount. Even if it's just enough for "a beer", your support helps running the service and motivates future developments.
You can choose from several options below to support asciinema financially.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer electronic crypto-currency. Bitcoin is also a free way to send money overseas. If you would like to donate some bitcoins to the project use the following address (you can just click it if you use desktop bitcoin wallet).
1GLaEx3cU5rzaMVhst1djCJvs5HK8PAsV4
Gratipay
Gratipay is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by. And it's great for supporting open-source authors and projects. To donate to asciinema via Gratipay, click on the button below.
Packaging
If you use an operating system for which there's no native asciinema package and you know how to build one then don't hesitate, build it and let us know.
Bug reporting
All your bug reports and feature ideas are highly appreciated as they help to improve the quality and functionality of asciinema for everyone.
As the service is built of several parts there are separate bug trackers:
- github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues - issues and ideas for the command line recorder,
- github.com/asciinema/asciinema-server/issues - issues and ideas for the website,
- github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues - issues and ideas for the javascript player.
Spreading the word
Finally, you can help spreading the word about the project by telling your friends about it. Tweet and blog about it or submit your recordings to Reddit. We're @asciinema on Twitter btw.