Bonus points for your recommendations of who to donate to!
There is a small payment provider overhead so I wouldn’t spread too much but spreading a bit is good. You can always donate to lemmy devs.
Quality > quantity every time
Do you have projects that you personally admire? I assume you are choosing to donate to open source because you have an affinity for it. Personally I donate to political causes, particularly ones where I participate in/contribute to. Projects where I can get in the discord and talk to people, learn and really experience the practical side. I’m in a few Foss discords as well, so maybe joining some communities and getting to know people working with it, maybe learn to work with it yourself, will help and inform your decision.
This reminds me that I need to throw some money at Syncthing again.
I keep forgetting because it just works.
Personally, I donate less to more projects. But, if you don’t have a strong opinion of what to donate to, you can get the best of both worlds by donating to NLnet.
They fund open source projects up and down the stack, from open source CPUs all the way up to applications like Lemmy, and everything in between. Some are quite speculative and others are tangible improvements to existing projects.
Okay, the CPU sounds really interesting. I wonder how this could be manufactured.
I really like the idea of donating to a broader consortium, like the NLNet that’s suggested already, specifically because they give donations to less consumer-facing elements that might be less likely to attract direct funding.
Other than that though, I’d say donate to the things that (a) you already use a lot, and which (b) seem most in need of funding. If it’s big and famous and fairly stable without significant ongoing costs, it’s probably not as important to donate to. If it’s niche, needs a lot of development to add useful features or polish, or has significant ongoing costs (e.g. servers), that would be a higher priority. Evaluate based on whatever balance of those factors you choose.
I would donate some to deltachat / arcanechat, it’s a promising project, and maybe if you have local hosting of some federated oss instance that you use, also freecad, but it’s and app that I’m using often
The Austrian-school got 1 thing right, fersure:
the less someone has, the greater the difference 1 currency-unit is going to make to them.
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Have a look at the programs you use, do any of them accept donations.
A tener to your Lemmy host a month would be good too Notepad++ is a good one too.
Gimp, Blender, and
DaVinci Resolveto give a fuck you to Adobe.I don’t think DaVinci Resolve is open source sadly
You are right. My bad.
But KDE is and it has Kdenlive and Krita, in case you still want to give a fuck you to Adobe :) Don’t think you can give just to those two projects though, you can give to KDE and they distribute it among projects as needed
Notepad++ just lost the trust of our company due to their updater hack by the Chinese government. Everyone was instructed to uninstall it and move to alternate options.
Are you sure you still want to support them?
Yes, because if you read the release it was a fault at the underlying provider which they were already moving away form.
Also, you can not stop a proper state sponsored threat actor so leaving an org because they were hit is stupid when they are open about what happened and how they have made actual changes to minimise it from happening again.
Not my choice. But higher ups.
This is why I asked are you sure.
I’m still using it on my personal pc.
Not my choice. But higher ups.
Ok, but your comment pretty clearly expressed an implied agreement with that choice.
That’s you reading meaning into my words.
I stated facts about what had happened and asked whether that matters to the recipient.
Ok, so, do you agree with it? Or do you think that Notepad++ has demonstrated a good commitment to doing the right thing that means it’s still just as worthy of recommendation as it was last month?
I don’t know enough to make a decision on it.
I will follow the rules of my work place when working and look into it more before I make the choice between continuing to use it on my personal time. I haven’t had much free time lately, so that is still on the to do list.
Yes. How an org reacts to security incidents is one of the gauges I use to see if a project should be supported.
I’m not following, are you being sarcastic?
No. Would you support a project that has a security issue like what N++ had but said nothing?
Oh! Sorry, fever brain. I thought you were referring to my company as the organisation.
Yes, I agree. That is an important representation of the trustworthyness of an organisation.
Organic Maps is a bit iffy.
It’s registered here in Estonia. Neat, a trustworthy European country, right?! Nah, we allow people from all over the world to register companies. The people behind Organic Maps are one Russian and one Belorussian individual.
Their LLC hasn’t exactly been making a lot of money from donations either it seems, so who knows how they’re actually making their money. They have to be making money somehow, right? My guess is that it’s not as privacy-focused as one may think. The source code available on GitHub is one thing, but who knows if that’s what they actually upload to Play Store and App Store? But then again, this is just speculation, it’s not like I’ve inspected the packets or anything.
Might I suggest https://www.comaps.app/ instead of Organic Maps.
CoMaps is a truly open source fork, whereas it is questionable in Organic Maps case.
+1 for FreeCAD Awesome tool!
Jellyfin apps, for android etc. The main project gets enough donations.
Wikipedia, archive.org
Godot
Donate to more projects with less, it’s better for everyone
Jellyfin for Roku maintainer here.
I have some peeps donate $1 a month, and it’s awesome knowing they care enough about the stuff I’m working on to contribute!
If I had that much money to spare, I’d split it in smaller parts and donate to smaller projects that I use. I feel like Mozilla, Signal or KDE are doing pretty well at the moment, but what about some random developer that works on, for example, an open source app that you’ve been using for years? Some of them just get a few bucks once in a blue moon and that’s it. I believe they should be appreciated more.
Smaller, recurring donations to several of the projects you use most often or whose purpose you most support is what I would do. You can browse for projects you might want to donate to from this list on codeberg or OpenCollective, or look for individual developers you want to support.
Personal recommendations: your Linux distribution and Fediverse instances of choice, LibreOffice, WireGuard, Archive.org, Anna’s Archive, Signal, KDE, Wikipedia.
I am a member of the European free software foundation, that is 10 bucks per month.
90 to go :)
I think it’s better whatever number of projects you choose, to do so in a recurring way (I think it was the KDE devs that outlined it well) as it provides a lot of stability to a project, that can make long term commitments based on them. Currently I recurrently donate 10€ a month to Asahi Linux :)
