We're raising money to fund the hosting services for the LinuxCNC online forum. LinuxCNC is free, open source software that is used to provide computer numeric control(CNC) capability to industrial and hobby manufacturing machines. LinuxCNC has been around since 2003, and has been actively developed ever since then.

The current online forum was started in 2006, and has been operated and paid for by one of the developers ever since. We are at a point where the forum has outgrown its hosting platform, and for the first time ever we are asking for community donations so that we can move it to a more powerful, robust platform and ensure its continued growth.

We're seeking US$2000 in donations at this point. That amount would allow us to upgrade the hosting platform and pay for five years of hosting.

We're seeking long term funding to ensure that the forum will be able to remain on line and active. We would like to reach our goal by November 30, 2026 so that we can quickly perform the much-needed upgrades.