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Chris Caron

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Sponsor Introduction

Hi, my name is Chris.

I am a full stack software developer with over 20+ years of professional experience, and a long-standing commitment to building and maintaining open source software. I design systems with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and long-term maintainability.

Alongside my professional work, I maintain several open source projects and supporting infrastructure, including documentation, package repositories, and build pipelines.

One of my most widely used projects is 📢 Apprise, along with its companion Apprise API. Apprise is a unified notification library that enables applications, scripts, and services to send notifications through a consistent interface to more than 120+ supported platforms, including Discord, Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, Twilio, email, and many others.

Apprise is used in personal automation, home infrastructure, DevOps workflows, monitoring systems, and commercial environments. It continues to grow as upstream services evolve and new integrations are added.

How Sponsorship Helps

Open source is a core part of my professional identity, but it must coexist with full-time work that covers everyday living expenses. Sponsorship directly enables me to dedicate more focused and predictable time to Apprise and related projects.

Your support helps fund:

  • Ongoing maintenance and compatibility updates as upstream services change
  • Development of new notification services and major enhancements
  • Documentation, testing, and release quality improvements
  • Hosting, domain, CI, and distribution costs required to keep the project reliable (https://appriseit.com)

Current sponsors 3

@joshwolff1
@YoRyan
@keppo070
Past sponsors 15
@jumoog
@ivelin
@ambianic
@tschoesi
@henrikba
@ashenmare
@dgtlmoon
@BryanWall
@smseagle
@nevo-david
Private Sponsor
@Twisterado
Private Sponsor
@auanasgheps
@pingram-io

Featured work

  1. caronc/nzb-notify

    Push Notifications to a large number of supported services for NZBGet and SABnzbd (based on Apprise)

    Python 128
  2. caronc/newsreap

    Usenet Framework that supports posting, indexing and retrieving

    Python 40
  3. caronc/apprise

    Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!

    Python 15,945
  4. caronc/apprise-api

    A lightweight REST framework that wraps the Apprise Notification Library

    Python 1,126
  5. caronc/ultrasync

    API and CLI wrapper to The Interlogix ZeroWire and Hills ComNav (NX-595E) UltraSync Security Panel

    Python 20
  6. caronc/ha-ultrasync

    Interlogix ZeroWire and Hills ComNav (NX-595E) UltraSync Security Panel for Integration for Home Assistant Comunity Store (HACS)

    Python 36

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$ a month

You'll receive any rewards listed in the $5 monthly tier. Additionally, a Public Sponsor achievement will be added to your profile.

$5 a month

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⭐ Community Supporter

For individuals who rely on Apprise and want to help sustain it.

Supports

  • Ongoing maintenance and dependency updates
  • CI, packaging, and documentation upkeep

Recognition

  • Name listed on the public Sponsors page (optional)

$15 a month

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⭐ Sustaining Sponsor

For power users, self-hosters, and small teams.

Supports

  • Bug fixes and compatibility work
  • Keeping existing notification services operational as upstream APIs change

Recognition

  • Sponsors page listing
  • Aggregate acknowledgement in release notes

$50 a month

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⭐ Project Sponsor

For organisations using Apprise in production.

Supports

  • Proactive maintenance of high-impact services
  • Reduced response time for critical regressions

Recognition

$100 a month

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⭐ Service Development Sponsor

Fund the development or adoption of a new Apprise notification service, or major enhancement to an existing one.

Details

  • Sponsor may propose a service or upstream integration
  • Final scope and feasibility confirmed by you
  • Delivered as a public, upstream Apprise plugin

Supports

  • Design, implementation, testing, and documentation
  • Long-term inclusion and maintenance in Apprise

Recognition

  • Sponsor attribution in the service documentation
  • Logo/name on the Sponsors page
  • Optional attribution in the commit history or release notes

$250 a month

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⭐ Strategic Sponsor

For companies embedding Apprise deeply into their products or platforms.

Supports

  • Roadmap influence (prioritisation, not control)
  • Larger refactors, performance improvements, or ecosystem work

Benefits

  • Priority issue triage
  • Limited architectural consultation related to Apprise usage
  • Prominent sponsor recognition