Share your knowledge and get paid, while supporting tech-focused nonprofits and charities.
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The Write for DOnations program brings together two initiatives: building content to help developers, and supporting tech-focused charities and nonprofits.
Through the program, community authors help grow DigitalOcean’s library of DevOps, software development, and production systems tutorials—all based on free and open-source software. These authors then receive a personal payout and select a tech-focused charity to receive a donation.
Payouts
Authors typically receive $300 per tutorial. The author then selects a single tech-focused charity or nonprofit or a group of nonprofits united by similar missions to receive a donation from DigitalOcean.
Most new tutorials are paid out at $300; complex production-focused topics may be paid out at up to $400. Updates for existing tutorials, such as distribution changes, are typically paid out at $75 to $150, based on the quantity of changes and technical content. All payouts are at editorial discretion.
Testimonials
“This is a fantastic opportunity to not only improve your writing skills, but to give back to the open source community and help fund incredible charities doing great work!” - Elliot Forbes, 2019
“Writing for DigitalOcean is an opportunity for you to share your knowledge with hundreds of thousands of developers around the world, while also improving your technical writing skills. Everyone wins!” - Chuks Opia, 2019
“Writing for DigitalOcean has been a very positive experience. The editors are friendly and effective, and the process has improved my writing and organization skills. It is very rewarding to give back to the community in this way. Highly recommended!” - Rafe Colton, 2019
“The DigitalOcean team made the whole editorial process so simple that it was a pleasure writing the tutorial. I just wanted to share that contributing to the "Write For DOnations program" was a very enriching experience for me.“ - Damaso Sanoja, 2020
Timeline
Apply, collaborate, write, revise, publish, and repeat.
About You
We’re looking for a diverse group of strong technical writers with demonstrated experience in the topics we’re publishing. You’ll have written before, and are comfortable receiving feedback on your writing during the publishing process. Our readers have a wide range of skills, but we’re looking for authors who can write for beginning and intermediate developers.
Topics
Each month, we’re focusing on a few specific topic areas, and we’re looking for authors who understand those topics well.
For March 2021, we’re looking for the following topics:
If none of these topics seem right for you, check back next month!
For copyright reasons, we can't reprint content that has already been published elsewhere.
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We're excited to see your application, but before you proceed, be sure you've looked at our list of topics for the month, and that the article idea you're submitting hasn't already been published anywhere else first. We'll review your submission at the end of the month and we'll get back to you with next steps in the first week of next month.
We’ll take your submissions until March 31st, 2021 at 4:00PM US-Eastern Standard Time.
Our articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), meaning you can repost your DigitalOcean articles with attribution and with the same license on non-commercial sites after they're published here.
All of our community authors sign our Freelance Writers Contract.