Title: Funding campaign disclaimer
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Some Apache committers have successfully run funding campaigns to work on their favorite Apache projects.

This is ok in principle but you have to make it clear that the campaign is your own thing, and avoid any confusion about the role of the 
ASF and how its projects work.

This page gives a few examples of that.

If you have any question about this, feel free to ask on our 
[dev@community.apache.org](https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@community.apache.org) mailing list.

## Example disclaimer for a personal crowdfunding campaign

He's a nice example disclaimer used by one of our committers:

        Disclaimers: This campaign is done by me, FOO, as an independent individual, not
        by the Apache Software Foundation nor the Apache BAR project. I'm not representing
        the Foundation in any way in this campaign, nor does Apache endorse it. The
        Foundation has a policy of not paying for development work. All its members are
        voluntary, me included. Any code I'll write or change will have to pass the usual BAR
        team approval process. If this campaign isn't funded, I'll continue participating
        in the BAR project in the same way as before.

See also the [discussion thread](http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201310.mbox/%3Cop.w4fwv6ewovlrp5%40arsmachina%3E) about this
campaign.

## Friends of Apache Groovy

[Friends of Apache Groovy](https://opencollective.com/friends-of-groovy) is another good example which supports activities 
in the Apache Groovy community.

The [explanation in their about section])https://opencollective.com/friends-of-groovy#about= makes it clear that that 
initiative is _not_ affiliated or driven by the ASF, and also that any contributions, funded or not, have to go 
through the usual Apache Groovy acceptance process.