What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? I’d like to help if I can.
I’m also looking for projects only related to FOSS, or “in-the-spirit” of FOSS.
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Hello, you might be interested to this post I loved and enjoyed to read: https://www.arscyni.cc/file/take_my_money.html
Cool blog post, thanks for sharing.
There are a few nitpicks in my opinion (e.g. the uBlock Origin page hints to donate to list maintainers or at least that’s the message I got, K-9 Mail has a relationship with Thunderbird Mail and so I believe donations are possible, I think rule 4 is too strict by disallowing any project where cryptocurrency donations are an option because despite its issues the main ones are legitimate ways of donating to projects without giving personal data to other corporations like PayPal/Stripe/etc.) so I would use this blog as a useful exploration rather than an ultimate who-to-donate-to guide.
I’m glad they didn’t just stop at the number and went on to explore scale and that being able to donate an impactful amount for more than a few tools is a privilege. While I disagree that UBI is a realistic solution (it’s a reformist coping mechanism) or that taxes are likely to go towards this kind of critical infrastructure, it’s great to see the discussion was brought up and integrated, alongside critique of so-called philanthropy.
Also, I’ve never seen the yin-yang symbol used as a light/dark mode button, I really like that.
@comma@midwest.social This is an extremely thorough answer directly to your question. It even has the same xkcd comic in the conclusion!
My opinion: We really need to be supporting this stuff with tax money. Meantime give money to orgs that advocate for related causes to benefit all or distribute grants. EFF, FSF, Right 2 Repair, public and specialty libraries.
This is an interesting approach that needs wide exposure.
This is literally carnap.io for formal logic teachers. Just a dude in Nebraska holding all of us up. He’s not even an academic anymore!
Who is this nebraskan that inspired this meme
The title text mentions imagemagick, there are other examples in the wiki.
SFC (“Software Freedom Conservancy”) is doing good work on a legal front that may well result in a lot more consumer electronic devices (like smart TVs) having fully FOSS OSs available.
More info at https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
This is fascinating as I didn’t even know about it for one, and for two it’s based on having legal standing as a customer of the product, not the developer of the GPL code. I’ll be interested to see where this goes.
For real. I’ve been anxiously awaiting developments, but it seems that no more developments are likely to happen until September.
Not money per se, I believe more hands are necesary to assist/succeed Werner Koch. He is doing a critical task for the internet, and last I read, he is the only one on it.
Not sure why no more upvotes, but I also feel this is a crucial one if not the most crucial one.
Maybe because he’s doing ok now, getting 100k plus USD annually from a couple big-ass corporations after he struggled for 20+ years. And living in Germany, one of the best countries to be a citizen of.
I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve it, he does plus back pay for all the other work.
Right, but the ask in the response is help, not money
Sure, although the response was to the question: “What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? I’d like to help if I can.”
Plus, it’s not easy to assist/succeed critical cryptographic development. I don’t think it’s something most of us can really help with.
Proton, the Swiss based, privacy focused VPN and cloud services provider does a $10 raffle for a lifetime accounts with all proceeds and a match up to $150k to a list of ten privacy/foss focused charities & organizations. Proton isn’t itself a non profit in need of funding per say but they do good work and it’s an easy way to put a small amount towards some worthy cause, and possibly win a decent product in the process. Wont post links to avoid looking like a shill, but the list on their page for the raffle might also be a good place to look if you’re wanting to donate to something directly.
Currently ongoing until Jan 5 2024. $10 per ticket. https://shop.proton.me/products/2024-lifetime-raffle-ticket
Where will the funds go?
Proceeds will go to 10 organizations selected with the support of our community and to a handful of past fundraisers beneficiaries, with Proton matching up to $150,000 in donations. The new recipients this year are:
- Freedom House
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- OpenStreetMap
- The Tech Oversight Project
- Ladybird Browser
- Nothing2hide
- Open Data Institute
- Ada Lovelace Institute
- Law for Change
- Free Press Unlimited
Ty!
Guitarix! Open source project for guitar/musical instruments that acts as a modeling interface. Recently updated to include NAMs.
Try Olive Editor
This one is WAY underrated. Cool! I want to try it!
Don’t know if my contributions are best (or can be placed under these lists) but they are ones I enjoy and appreciate
- LibreOffice
- Wikipedia
the fediverse instance that I use and want to support
Why Lemmy.ca?
Asking cause I’ve only really been exposed to .world and .ml and would like to know the advantages and disadvantages of switching up.
Because I’m Canadian and the instance is Canadian moderated by people in Canada who do their best to keep the service and servers as Canadian as possible. I wouldn’t be surprised if the servers hosting the instance were liquid cooled with maple syrup, the racks held together with hockey sticks and hockey tape and the whole thing guarded by polar bears.
polar bears.
… conTINually smashed on Sortilege…
well .ml is special, most probaboy don’t have a problem there but if you do you really do (ask me why the anime community on lemmy.ml is practically dead)
.world is just suffering from success, they regularly have federation troubles with other instances because they are by far the largest one and hence run into scaling troubles. Other than that it’s the most reddit like moderation wise also due to being so big. It’s courtesy to steer people away from .world simply to prevent the scaling problems from getting worse
There’s an npm command that lists packages that need funding
npm fundThe ones you use. If you use KDE, Thunderbird, Gimp or whatnot you should consider donating to those specifically.
Still, don’t forget Wikipedia, it’s one of the greatest Open Source projects of all time.
More specifically, donate to the project itself (like Krita) instead of the big KDE umbrella.
krita my beloved
Wikipedia, Tor, Archive.org
Tor its from se CIA so I think its not needed…
Millions of people use beautifulsoup4, but most probably don’t realize that a core library that powers it, soupsieve, is effectively maintained by one person. In the spirit of the xkcd you linked, Isaac Muse could probably use some funding
Lemmy
Also, if you like your instance and they accept donations, that too. Reminder that hosting a website costs money every month and since most instances don’t have ads (and probably aren’t selling your data), they operate at a loss to provide services for free.
If you like your instance, you can keep it.
i cant donate bcs i dont got a credit card sadly :(
