Do you donate to FOSS projects?

art, 10 months ago

I’ve donated to Ardour for years and I pitched in at the last Kdenlive find raising. I’d like to chip in more once my budget has stabilized.

JackOfAllTraits, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yup, to Fediverse, this server, Calyx fondation and Signal

TCB13, 10 months ago

Calyx fonundation and Signal

Naaaa I’m not going to fund an Android ROM that has inherit and exploitable security vulnerabilities (read on hardware support requirements of the GrapheneOS project and you’ll understand) nor a messaging App that was probably first funded by the NSA and we never know.

I would rather fund someone looking to make a single good cross-platform XMPP native client (iOS, Android, Windows and macOS) with push notifications that actually work and video - not the garbage we’ve today.

JackOfAllTraits, 10 months ago

I would rather fund someone looking to make a single good cross-platform XMPP native client (iOS, Android, Windows and macOS) with push notifications that actually work and video - not the garbage we’ve today.

So are you? Because if you are just sitting around and waiting for someone out there to make a product by your own perfect standards, than its equal to doing nothing. Compared to doing nothing, supporting Calyx and/or Signal is infinitely better.

Corgana, 10 months ago

I used to be a mod on /r/StarTrek and everytime we did a fundraiser it was inevitably met with criticisms of some kind. I would usually respond with “That sounds like a great cause too, why don’t you post the receipt (we encouraged users to share recepits) for that instead?” and never once saw it.

paschko, 10 months ago

I donated to libre office recently and I want to start donating to Wikipedia yearly now that I am settled in my first job

01011, 10 months ago

I donate to any project I use that takes xmr.

beta_tester, 10 months ago

Yes, the smaller the project, the likelier I donate (more often)

hemko, 10 months ago

I have a small monthly budget for donations in general. It’s often niche stuff I love to use, and/or humanitarian aid

CookieOfFortune, 10 months ago

Not directly per se. I donate to Wikipedia, EFF, and the ACLU. I guess Wikipedia is FOSS?

some_guy, 10 months ago

Yes. Homebrew and Asahi Linux.

Interstellar_1, 10 months ago

No, but I don’t have a credit card, so I can’t

thanatotus, 10 months ago

I’ve donated in the past to elementaryOS, other Linux projects and separately to Wikipedia.

I’ve tried contributing code, but it’s miniscule. I wish I could give more time.

msage, 10 months ago

Gentoo - three digits Matrix - used to patreon, but it’s dead, so I stopped Wiki - occasionally

I really need to support Postgres and Patroni. Next year’s goals

Sabakodgo, 10 months ago

Yes, I donate $1-5 monthly to many devs.

cupcakezealot, 10 months ago

not every one but the ones i particularly find useful (i monthly donate to thunderbird and firefox) or through github sponsors

M500, 10 months ago

I donated to Linux Mint once, I think it’s time to make another donation.

This time, I think I’ll donate to one of the emulator developers. I’ll have to take a look and see which platform is currently receiving updates pretty regularly. I’m learning towards ryujinx as that’s the main switch emulator I use. But I’m also considering pcsx2 as I really love that system.

kionite231, 10 months ago

I wish I could 😢