About Read the Docs
Read the Docs has grown substantially since its beginning as a weekend project and is closing in on being a top-1000 site on the internet. Today, we:
- Serve over 35 million pages of documentation a month
- Serve over 40 TB of documentation a month
- Host over 80,000 open source projects and support over 100,000 users
- Are supported by a very small team of dedicated engineers
We fund our operations through sponsorship and support, advertising, and corporate-hosted documentation with Read the Docs for Business.
Sponsorship & Support
Since its inception, Read the Docs has grown into a massive resource that developers rely on daily. Many individuals and companies have contributed financially to Read the Docs over the years.
If you consider Read the Docs to be a useful service, and would like to see it continue to grow, consider pitching in to help cover the cost of bringing free and open documentation to everyone. Supporters receive an ad-free experience on Read the Docs.
- $33547 contributed
- $89 average contribution
- 401 Supporters
Gold Membership
Gold members support Read the Docs on a monthly basis and lets us work more on features that people love. All money goes directly to maintenance and development of Read the Docs.
Like all supporters, being a Gold member makes Read the Docs ad-free when you are logged-in. Gold members may also completely remove advertising for all visitors to their projects.
- For small businesses or personal projects, we ask for $5 per month to remove ads from a project.
- For corporate supported open source projects, we ask for a $50 membership in order to cover our support and operations costs.
Becoming a Gold member with your existing Read the Docs account is a quick and easy way to support the continued development of Read the Docs.
Sponsors
Our servers are graciously sponsored by Microsoft Azure, at a value of $3,000 each month. They are our single largest sponsor, and Read the Docs wouldn't be possible without their generous support. You can view the full list of past sponsors in our documentation.
If your company shares our passion for documentation, or if you want to support our mission, contact us for more information on sponsoring Read the Docs.
Our Supporters
Below is a list of all the wonderful people who have supported our vision.
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Python Software Foundation
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Jeff Wishnie
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Chocolatey Software
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DreamHost
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Divio
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Lincoln Loop
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Carl Meyer
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Randy Syring
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Jannis Gebauer
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Mitchel Humpherys
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Webton
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Kenny Paul
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Hideo Hattori
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Zenefits
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Avencall / XiVO
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Elastic Search
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Hurricane Labs
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Chris Heisel
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Metricfire Limited
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Daniel Lindsley
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Christine Doig
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ReadMe.io
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Keith Bussell
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Jakub Janoszek
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Jannis Leidel
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Charles Marais
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Daniel Harding
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Steve Holden
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Steve Kim
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Benjamin Wohlwend
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John-Scott Atlakson
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Nadia Eghbal
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bivald
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damon c
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Raphaël Barrois
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Ian Cordasco
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Ben Warren
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Thomas Adamcik
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Brian Wickman
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James L Fulton
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Heinz N. Gies
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Donald Stufft
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Donovan N Finch
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David Baumgold
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transcode
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flowblok
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Florian Apolloner
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Julien Phalip
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David Thenon
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Terry Peppers
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Issac Kelly
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Russell Keith-Magee
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Ulrich Petri
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George Solomos
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Anthony LaTorre
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Don Williams
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Mike Shaver
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Skymatic GmbH
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BIDS
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Ralph Giles
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David Weber
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Andy Miles
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Michael Chow
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Jack Wilkinson
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John Morris
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Simon L. B. Nielsen
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Radon Rosborough
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LaunchDarkly
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Frederic Bardolle
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Ben Graham
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@hatarist
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David Witten
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Guvnor Shamless
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Jiri Vyskocil
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Tom Forrer
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Conor McGee
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Antonia Elsen
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Fabien Maussion
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holger krekel
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Alan Lund
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Alana Post
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Jonathan Rogers
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Laurent Almeras
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Matthijs Kooijman
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Michael Schmitt
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Dave Lester
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Mr Philip R Haworth
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Nigel Babu
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Ben Lambert
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Mark Servilla
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Christian
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Neil Flood
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Big Ethan
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Ethan White
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Joshua Griffin Dunn
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Sander Steffann
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Peter Odding
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Travis Webb
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Thomas Gratier
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Sean O'Connor
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Cory Benfield
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Trey Hunner
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Jon Dugan
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Jon Dugan
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Antoine Pitrou
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Moshe Zadka
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William Kevin Manire
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Jonathan LaCour
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Chris Spencer
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Dirk Rombauts
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William Bushey
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Stein Magnus Jodal
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Domen Kožar
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Ruben Orduz
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David Reid
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Pablo Ricco
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Tyrel Souza
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Adam Kaliński
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Sébastien Fievet
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Barbara Shaurette
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Rémy Hubscher
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Ivan Sagalaev
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Justin Bronn
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James Johnson
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Simon A. F. Lund
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Hiroki KIYOHARA
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Michael Herman (Real Python)
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Daryl Yu
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Nicola Iarocci
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Carol Willing
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Anne Gentle
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John Carr
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Eoin Brazil
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Jair Henrique
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Tomek Paczkowski
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Leonidas Tsementzis
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Mahmoud Hashemi
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Paul Collins
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Luke Plant
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Mark Giffin
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John Vrbanac
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Paul Kehrer
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Renan Ivo
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Matthew Dapena-Tretter
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Igor Davydenko
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Jeff Forcier
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borntyping
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Joel Kolou
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Eric Moyer
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pang
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Eric Juve
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Ivailo Karamanolev
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Zachary Barry
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Sam Wilson
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Jens Neuhalfen
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Thomas Kluyver
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Nicolas Delon
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Chris Burgess
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Weisi Dai
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Jeff Kiefer
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Jeff Kiefer
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Benjamin Love
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Anthony DeBarros
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Katie McLaughlin
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Colin D
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Jeremy "Ichimonji10" Audet
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Chris Simpkins
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Gregory T Back
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Yusuke Ohshima
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Sander Dieleman
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Luke Plant
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James Digges La Touche
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Alex Dempsey
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David Bonner
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Zachary Tribbett
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Quentin Pradet
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Alexis Métaireau
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Tobias Wellnitz
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AJ Bowen
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Stéphane Klein
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Michka Popoff
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Pete Fein
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Scot Hacker
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Florian Le Frioux
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Carl Friedrich Bolz
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Shabda Raaj
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Andrew T. Baker
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Arezqui Belaid
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Jamy Mahabier
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Artyom Kazak
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Mario Alemi
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Fabio Zanini
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Gustav Pettersson
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Otavio Augusto Gomes
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Lemongrass
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John M Russell
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John M Russell
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John M Russell
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John M Russell
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John M Russell
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Alexander Standke
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Eric Anholt
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Christopher Copley
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Jeremy Short
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Einar Forselv
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Ethan Chapman
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Dave Willingham
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Yu-Chiang HSU
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Izzet Pembeci
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Marc Tuduri
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James Pic
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Felipe Arruda Pontes
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Luke Petschauer
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Bruno Oliveira
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Wouter Bolsterlee
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Riccardo Magliocchetti
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Pawel
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Matthew Zipay
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Yuri
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Yennick Trevels
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Evgeny Evseev
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Alexandre Chabot-Leclerc
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Murithi Borona
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Erling Børresen
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Bruno Oliveira
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Jānis Ābele
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Nick Lo
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Stefan Scherfke
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Owen Raccuglia
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Jonathan D March
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Szczepan Cieślik
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Chad Whitacre
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Francesco Faraone
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Kenneth Skovhede
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John Eikenberry
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Patrick Arminio
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shazow
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DappVolume.com
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Aasif Shaikh
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Benjamin Degenhart
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Andrey Parfenov
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Philipp Schmutz
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Delta Nuub
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Delta Nuub
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Washim Ahmed
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Kheng-Swee Goh
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Arvid Lunnemark
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Bardi Harborow
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CHEN CHEN
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Frank Sauerburger
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Piero Toffanin
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Jude S
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Jeffrey H Parrish
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Leandro Rebosio
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Victorio Berra
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Hai Nguyen Mau
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René Milk
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Claudia Pellegrino
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Jonathan March
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Andrew Bridge
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Anthony Johnson
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Graham Oliver
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Juan Funez
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Nicholas Santos
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Keith Yang
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Tomasz Święcicki
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José Carlos García
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Gregory
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Marius Gedminas
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Mark Steve Samson
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schmichael
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Eric Holscher
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Harrison Zhu
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Test
Thanks
This program is modeled after the fantastic Django Fellowship. Thanks for the inspiration.
Advertising
Advertising is our largest source of funding and has allowed Read the Docs to expand from its best-effort supported beginnings to the company we are today with a small but dedicated team of full-time engineers supporting free and open documentation.
In 2016, we launched our Ethical Ads initiative to build an advertising model that doesn't track our readers and respects their privacy. We have proven that this model works to fund open source infrastructure.
If your company is interested in reaching a 100% developer audience, please consider advertising on Read the Docs.
Our Advertisers
Below is a list of some of the great companies actively supporting Read the Docs through advertising.
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