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The Linux Foundation aims to bring together open source software professionals, developers, sysadmins, and students to advance important community and industry initiatives that increase diversity in tech and access to new technologies.
We use funds from Individual Supporters to help drive our diversity and inclusiveness programs. With our community, we have supported groups like:
Becoming an Individual Supporter Pays for Itself Immediately
For more information, see the FAQ below.
If you’re currently an Individual Supporter, you have the option to purchase a Linux.com email alias for life.
Introduced in January 2016 and modeled after other community programs, the Individual Supporter program provides an avenue for individuals to help advance important community and industry initiatives that increase diversity in tech and access to new technologies.
Funds generated through the program are used to support important community and industry organizations that are advancing diversity in tech and increasing access to new technologies and learning opportunities for underserved populations. In 2019, funds were donated to Outreachy and CommunityBridge Mentorships, which underwrites paid stipends for diverse candidates undergoing internships in various Linux Foundation hosted projects.
The main changes are:
Individual Supporter fee has increased from $49 to $99.
Individual Supporters will be given the option to purchase a lifetime linux.com email alias.separately for $150
In order to ensure your contact info is updated in our systems correctly, we kindly request all names and addresses be filled out in English.
When a charge is declined by the bank, we show as much information as we receive about the decline. For example, we might receive a message that the zip/postal code does not match the one that the bank has on file. In the majority of cases, the decline reasons are generic and the bank does not share specific information as to why a charge was declined.
If all of the card information seems correct, your only recourse is to contact your bank to get more information and to ask that future charges be accepted. When contacting your bank, you may also wish to check whether any restrictions are placed on cross-border transactions or on online transactions that exceed a certain amount. Alternatively, you may want to try with a different credit card. (Please also note that debit cards often present issues, so switching to a credit card may help.)
The linux.com email alias is available for purchase by Individual Supporters only. If you already are an Individual Supporter, you can purchase the lifetime linux.com email alias at https://joinnow.platform.linuxfoundation.org/?project=tlf&product=01t2M000005wBazQAE#/enrollment.
If you have not yet signed up as an Individual Supporter, you may do so at https://joinnow.platform.linuxfoundation.org/?project=tlf&product=01t2M000005wBb0QAE. Once you’ve completed the process to become an Individual Supporter, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to purchase the linux.com email alias.
To prevent spam from bots to our Individual Supporters, we do not provide an online tool to check whether a certain alias is available. However, we would be happy to check on it for you if you contact us at https://support.lfx.dev/
When a charge is declined by the bank, we show as much information as we receive about the decline. For example, we might receive the message that the zip/postal code does not match the one that the bank has on file. In the majority of cases, the decline reasons are generic and the bank does not share specific information as to why a charge was declined.
If all of the card information seems correct, your only recourse is to contact your bank to get more information and to ask that future charges be accepted. When contacting your bank, you may also wish to check whether any restrictions are placed on cross-border transactions or on online transactions that exceed a certain amount. Alternatively, you may want to try with a different credit card. (Please also note that debit cards often present issues, so switching to a credit card may help.)
There are no discounts for the lifetime Linux.com Email Add-On.
For those of you who use Gmail and the linux.com forwarding service, many of our users immediately after setting up their linux.com forwarding service test from Gmail and never receive their test mail. We have found that any mail sent from the same Gmail account that is also the same final delivery Gmail account is not displayed in the Gmail Inbox. This is possibly due to Gmail considering the mail a duplicate of the Gmail Sent folder copy. This is an idiosyncrasy with Gmail and not a reflection on the linux.com forwarding service. Sending from any other account will deliver as expected.
Example:account@gmail.com –> alias@linux.com –> account@gmail.comIn the above example you would not see the email in your inbox due to the Gmail idiosyncrasy. Before sending a support request to the Linux Foundation please test from a different account
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