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Funding the Debian LTS project
While the Debian LTS team is organized much like any other team in Debian, and is thus welcoming help from everybody, we also wanted to offer a way for companies to support the project when they have no employees that have the skills needed to contribute to the LTS effort.
More concretely we wanted to make it easy for companies to contribute with money by hiring Debian contributors that would then provide security updates like any other contributor of the team.
That's why multiple Debian developers got together and setup a Debian LTS sponsorship offer under the Freexian umbrella. Freexian is just an intermediary company (owned by Debian developer Raphaël Hertzog) collecting money from sponsors, dispatching the corresponding work hours to Debian contributors, and paying them when the work has been done (and when they have published the corresponding report).
In the end, the following people are available for hire to work on Debian LTS:
Adrian Bunk (via Freexian)
Abhijith PA (via Freexian)
Arturo Borrero González (via Freexian)
Ben Hutchings (via Freexian)
Enrico Zini (via Freexian)
Guilhem Moulin (via Freexian)
Holger Levsen (via Freexian)
Ivan Kohler (via Freeside, especially for Perl/PostgreSQL, try others first)
Jochen Sprickerhof (via Freexian)
Lee Garrett (via Freexian)
Lucas Kanashiro (via Freexian)
Markus Koschany (via Freexian)
Raphaël Hertzog (via Freexian)
Roberto C. Sánchez (via Freexian)
Sean Whitton (via Freexian)
Stefano Rivera (via Freexian)
Sylvain Beucler (via Freexian)
Tobias Frost (via Freexian)
Thorsten Alteholz (via Freexian)
Some of the Debian consultants may also be available for hire to work on Debian LTS.