About

The jQuery Project, formed September 2009, works to provide infrastructure and financial assistance to jQuery-related projects.

Watch video of John Resig talking about the jQuery Project.

More about the jQuery project can be heard in the first jQuery podcast with John Resig.

Logos

Linked below is a zip containing the jQuery and jQuery UI logo assets in several formats. Logos can be used on web sites and presentations but permission must be received before producing or selling any products or services.

jQuery Logo and Identity: jQuery_Identity.zip

Software Freedom Conservancy

The jQuery project is part of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a non-profit dedicated to providing a home for Open Source software. The benefits of being part of the conservancy are:

…that member projects get all the protections of being a corporate entity without actually having to form and maintain one. These benefits include, most notably, the ability to collect earmarked project donations and protection from personal liability for the developers of the project. Projects can continue to operate in the same way they did before joining the Conservancy without having to select a board of directors or any other layer of corporate management, without having to maintain corporate records and without having to do any of the other things required of incorporated entities. The Conservancy handles all of that burden on behalf of its projects.

The Conservancy is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, so member projects can receive tax-deductible donations to the extent permitted by law. The Conservancy files a single tax return that covers all of its member projects and handles other corporate and tax related issues on behalf of its members, who are, of course, always free to join and leave the Conservancy at any time. Additionally, by not having to form a new organization, projects avoid having to pay the fees and spend the time required by the state incorporation and federal tax exemption application processes.

Voting

Board Members of the jQuery project frequently vote on various issues related to the project: adding new members, adding new projects, or requisitioning money. The voting history of the project is publicly available online and is open to the public.