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How can we give back to Gephi so that it continues to thrive in the years to come? I am not steering Gephi, so please do not take the following as anything “official” nor definitive on the topic. Please check the recent posts on the Gephi blog by Mathieu Jacomy and Mathieu Bastian to get the latest views from the core Gephi team. Ok, let’s dive in: Interests should be aligned - and money makes things complicated Gephi is used by a large diversity of actors: students to governments, librarians, academics and professional scientometricians, dataviz designers, social media listeners, citizen journalists, fraud detection analysts and NGO volunteers to professional osint and infosec specialists and many more. In this list of users, companies would have been natural contributors to the development of Gephi: “take my money, and in exchange I have a voice in Gephi to develop this or that feature”. However Gephi is a free and open source software, and it will not accept funding in return for a right to control how it is developed. This stance is not a mistake nor a handicap! It is a conscious choice to evolve Gephi for all - not just in the direction that is set by the stakeholders which can fund it. But as a result, a very common resource - funding money - is not directly available to Gephi. This simple absence of a market mechanism (I buy, you deliver) prevented Gephi from accessing resources that would have been so useful - and it is also why I esteem and respect the team who develops this software for so long, to provide it as a digital commons. So, are we stuck? No! There are many alternatives to contribute to Gephi, in ways that make the best of your abilities AND with tangible feedbacks beyond the existence of Gephi itself. This blog post will be expanded as I get your feedback: do you see new ways to support Gephi? Would you like to be cited as a contact point for any of those? Are you a company or for-profit organization? 1. Fund Gephi, despite the hurdles At the mo

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Gephi is a free and open source software serving thousands of users, developed by volunteers. How can we give back?