Wellwisher Boomstra is offering the same of sorts?
Blomstra is indeed set up as a commercial companion to the Foundation. The goal of Blomstra is to support the project and guarantee its open source nature. Flarum was originally created as a for-profit product, but Toby decided to pivot away into open source.
Being an open source project has its challenge, for instance relying heavily on contributors and retaining skilled core developers. Or guaranteeing continued development, especially targeting larger overhauls for major versions. Blomstra was set up to retain that talent, to finance development and to grow the project. The ideology to keep Flarum free is the foundation of this project and those that flock to it are usually equally passionate about this open stance, so far that they are willing to risk their livelihood with incorporating companies to strengthen the ecosystem.
Wellwisher I am just being curious because I hope to release my own extensions in the distant future and monetise them.
I certainly hope you will. There are several extension developers already using extiverse to publish their for-profit extensions.
Wellwisher Like how do monetise such a free project?
Flarum, as a project, does not want to profit from the code. Flarum is provided free of charge for anyone to use. The only thing we ask is support if you're able, this support can be done in various ways: https://docs.flarum.org/#help-the-flarum-project and https://flarum.org/donate.
Because open source carries the future. We also believe that your data should be owned by you. We also firmly believe that the product is better off with the ability for anyone to contribute.
World domina.. No, world domino 😬
All jokes aside, we want to just build an excellent, extensible community framework that people love to use.
I certainly hope you will do. Extiverse is already widely used by extension developers to monetize their extensions and it has matured a lot over the years.
