Leaf was created as a little project to make writing APIs super easy, but it’s grown since 2019, and today, Leaf is housing a couple of open-source tools covering different software engineering regimes. The tools we maintain here are:

• Leaf PHP framework and modules
• Hanabira & libs
• Naytive & libs

This was all initially funded internally, but there has been a lot more adoption which has increased the scale of keeping up with development. We switched to an open community financed model to solve this problem, driving towards these goals:

• Ensure continuous development for Leaf, Hana and Naytive
• Ensure that maintainers focus on the most important tasks
• Create a bigger online presence for Leaf

Book-keeping model

This is everything you need to know about our book keeping process.

• This report covers the Leaf, Hana and Naytive projects, as they are all managed together under Leaf. We handle all finance management in-house.

• We use Cash basis accounting. Since we are not a large organization with lots of deferred transactions, cash basis accounting works better for us. With this model, transactions only occur when our account is physically credited or debited.

• We use a single account model which is our OpenCollective account. This is because all our GitHub sponsorship contributions are automatically deposited in OpenCollective at the end of the month.