Contributing to Eclipse Community

[the_r3dacted]

Contributing to Eclipse Community can work in many ways. You could donate, help with projects or applications, or even create or manage them under the Eclipse Community brand.

Applications or projects

I would prefer contributing by helping with or creating projects or applications. As long as you have the skill this is a free and very helpful way to contribute to keeping the dream of a good computing experience alive. Both on desktop and mobile.

Current projects that need help in some form are as follows:
r3dfox (Look at the GitHub issues)
Lun3r & Hydra (Look at the GitHub issues)
Eclipse Mail (Look at the GitHub issues)
ePal68 (I need help figuring out how to compile it)
StickShift (I help figuring out why it doesn't work on Windows 7 requesting a function that is nowhere in it's code)
eBoard2 (Look at the GitHub issues)

Current projects that I need to get around to, but maybe could use help with:
r3dusb (I mostly just need to get around to trying to make it before I can really know anything)

Projects that I would love to see exist open source and compatible with XP:
Program that backports useful tweaks to older Windows versions, like ctrl + x menu, dragging and dropping to explorer breadcrumb, maybe 7 layout start menu for XP/Vista, 7 file pane for XP/Vista, and more.
Aero Snap for XP/Vista, corner snapping, works with multiple monitors, maybe more.
Firewall similar to Comodo Firewall or Firewall iP7, using custom driver with compatibility with TAP VPN drivers like Wireguard.
CPU and RAM monitoring widget with screenshot and clear RAM functionality styled after ABP 1.2 Rainmeter theme.
Open source recreation of nwclc with bigger number size.
Paint.NET alternative with familiar GUI and able to import .pdn files. Perhaps based upon last open source version?
Holo-Theme ported to Substratum for Android 7 and 4.3ified. (more blue accents)
Neptune Material ported to Substratum for Android 7.
Maybe custom Android ROM?
Anything else in the Research Network.

For new projects, there are a few basic guidelines. which you can find here.

Donations

Donations will mostly be to keep the website hosted, and fund projects that will become forum posts. They could be anything from buying and testing the RTL8159 (USB 10GbE networking) on Windows 7 to testing one of the theoretical best Windows 7/8 laptops. The latter I assume would come much later.

To donate to Eclipse Community, or more specifically me, please use the below Bitcoin address:

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bc1qjtja79h4nclj20ve464r72z070v3w9ltsfufqh

or

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bc1qspettke6rpnzwhgnl9wwmuqte5cm462wz4n9ww

top is normal(?) bottom is lightning(?) tbh I don't know what this means, so I give both

We also have a Monero address too:

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4AXTrkC3vTsMmtds1f2oLnexkKdCqdxzJY2jLDxHSog4JU44a3sagKzhvVipy1RajcfsWB4dA6HLJHq5KBkh5ZRTAL8VopQ

There is unlikely to be a more official payment method like PayPal. They would require me to make public more personal information than I am comfortable with. Crypto allows me to receive money and remain private.

If you have some spare money, and aren't into crypto, you could instead donate to people who have been very important in creating Eclipse or helping maintain it and projects.

Solinus: General graphic design for near every Eclipse project. Eclipse would look a lot different for the worse if not for them.
https://cash.app/$Solinus

Alex313031: Helping with r3dfox and other projects. r3dfox would not be as optimized or work as well if it weren't for him.
https://patreon.com/ThoriumDeveloper
https://paypal.me/alex313031?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Nobody else that has worked on Eclipse or helped with projects wanted their donation information here. If you did work on Eclipse or helped with a project and I just forgot to ask, please let me know.

Just like the guidelines thread, I want this to promote more contributions of useful or backported software, money is second. I would prefer a better computing experience over monetary gain. This is why it's taken so long for a thread like this to exist. I'm not in it for money, I'm in it to make using Windows pre-10 as easy and good as possible.

[the_r3dacted]

Edit: This has been resolved for 2026. This post has been left up for historical purposes.

If anyone has some spare Bitcoin, I've created a Bitcoin address, and I need ~30USD very soon (by the end of the month) to pay for the domain. If anyone has this amount in Bitcoin or knows a friend that does, I would appreciate it if you could donate it to keep the website up pls.

I made this custom receive address, maybe it plays well with your wallet client idk how this works tbh.

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bitcoin:bc1qspettke6rpnzwhgnl9wwmuqte5cm462wz4n9ww?amount=0.00034&message=Pay%20for%20eclipse.cx%20domain%20%28pls%29

The raw address is

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bc1qspettke6rpnzwhgnl9wwmuqte5cm462wz4n9ww

I ask for Bitcoin because I doubt you would want to give me your credit card details.

Or if you're willing, you could pay for it directly instead of sending it to me to then pay for it. If you have Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Ripple (XRP), or Polygon (POL), you could do it that way. Send me a message if you're interested in this pls.

[Duke]

idk how this works tbh.

I don't know either
I'm not using any cryptocurrency at all so I hope that by quoting your post someone will help you quickly, that would be a nice Christmas gift

[the_r3dacted]

I just had someone donate and I was able to get the domain renewed.

They wish to remain private, and I will respect that.

I'll merge the crypto address into the thread and edit the post to reflect that it's resolved for this year.