DDLSim-Lab Research Group
Group
| Plan | Amount | Frequency | Channel(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Open Source Community Backer
Micro-contribution to support day-to-day open-source maintenance, community issue triage, and continuous integration runs. |
USD 10 | Monthly | |
|
Bare-Metal CI/CD Hardware Node Sponsor
Sponsorship allocated directly to provisioning dedicated physical bare-metal CI runner nodes for automated eBPF/XDP kernel regression tests. |
USD 150 | Monthly | |
|
Core Kernel & eBPF Telemetry Engineering
Funding dedicated engineering hours for Linux kernel driver compatibility, safe capability separation (least privilege), and Prometheus exporter optimization. |
USD 1,200 | Monthly | |
|
International Testbed Integration & Telemetry Egress
Annual operational budget to sustain experimental integrations across distributed testbeds (Grid'5000, COSMOS, R2lab), telemetry data curation, and open access dataset hosting. |
USD 5,000 | Yearly | |
|
Dedicated Bare-Metal Testbed Hardware Procurement
One-time capital expenditure for enterprise bare-metal compute servers, Mellanox ConnectX 25/100GbE NICs, and low-jitter deterministic network switching. |
USD 15,000 | One-Time | |
|
Institutional & Enterprise Research Partnership
Annual comprehensive research partnership: priority custom benchmark scenario modeling, dedicated kernel telemetry harnesses, and co-authored reproducibility validation reports. |
USD 50,000 | Yearly |
| Channel | Type | Address |
|---|---|---|
| Open-Collective |
Payment-Provider
Public community funding, corporate backers, and tax-deductible contributions managed transparently through the Open Source Collective 501(c)(3) fiscal host. |
Visit |
| Github-Sponsors |
Payment-Provider
GitHub Sponsors program for recurring individual and corporate sponsorship tiers directly integrated with our source repository. |
Visit |
| Institutional-Grant |
Other
Direct institutional grants, academic research sponsorships, European fund disbursements, or agency contracts via verified scientist channel. |
[email protected] |
Group