Not regularly no, but I do make one-time donations whenever I stumble upon a new program that I like. For example, KDE and random apps from F-droid.
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Firefox, my favourite browser, I'm hoping Mozilla won't have to get revenue through other ways (data collection /ads) , thus I'm making a point of donating a small amount to the likes of Firefox, Wikipedia, etc
True, they got a lot of money from google to keep google as the default search engine.
Yeah, which I don't complain about, even though I change to ddg instantly lol
It's unfortunate that they make a huge amount of their profits from that though
I donate 10% of my income, generally 10-25% of that 10% to one time FOSS donations. It does not sound like much, 2.5%, but it's a ton, thanks US salary!
that's super generous! Thank you for doing that!
That's quite a lot.
I sometimes donate 10/20 to projects I find really cool and/or that I use regularly, mostly through Liberapay.
Mainly Framasoft, especially Peetube, and liberapay.
Typically over the years it's Android apps I regularly use that are written well that are a benefit to my day to day life. I'll typically throw a little money at least once a year. I've thrown AntennaPod money a couple times in a year because I live on that thing, that app is completely indistinguishable from any mainstream app, looks great, it's feature rich and I feel is better than half the proprietary apps out there.
I donated to Wikipedia and Mediagoblin. Wikipedia because I use it almost daily and Mediagoblin because I wanted an open-source alternative to YouTube. I was not aware of Peertube at the time and Mediagoblin was the closest thing to fit that description.
Usually some small passion project that usually get no donations otherwise. My small donations will never be enough to fund actual work on a project, but I hope I can show these people that their effort is appreciated by buying them a beer or so.
Yes, to conduit.rs Because I think an alternative Matrix server implementation apart from the official one should exist.
I've been a $5/month supporter of the Godot patreon for a long while.
Godot is a really cool project
No, I haven't donated to any open source projects but I have made some small contributions to several projects that I use.
Same here.
Liberapay, to disroot, snopyta, fdroid, etc. Two hundred dollars in a year or so. It's not much but I'm still a student and doesn't have a stable income
I'd say that 200 is a generous amount.
I have been a supporting member of the Trisquel GNU/Linux project for about ten years now. To date I have contributed โฌ903.00 to the project.
NixOS, their goal is quite interesting, it's a very distinct GNU/Linux distribution with a novel concept which completely changed my way of looking at configuring an OS and honestly, I feel like I've found my "home" with it and don't plan on jumping ship any time soon (unless something else comes along that improves upon the concept or introduces some other intersting paradigm).
Wikipedia, KDE, Arch. Trying to donate to more
I have donated to Wikipedia, FreeCAD and Blender
I gave money to Ardour not really with the intention to donate, but rather to get the Windows executable because I'm lazy to find a freely distributed Ardour for Windows or even compiling manually.
Today I'm on Linux which Ardour is easily accessible from package manager. Or if I want to compile Ardour, it's easier to do compared to compiling on Windows. But it was just $5 so nothing bothers me at all.
I've been donating to Ardour for years. Recorded my terrible songs on it. Worth the cost of donation knowing that others can make terrible songs too.
Is ardour actually a good DAW? I wanted to try it out, but I couldn't find a binary for Windows either. At that point I was using FL (still am :D) and I felt donating would be a good thing, but I wouldn't have found any worth in it
It is more complicated than FL studio, which LMMS is I think would be much closer to FL studio.
Ardour is works better for recording. The MIDI editor works fine, it's just that LMMS has better MIDI editor. On Linux, Ardour is pretty convenience because it is integrated with JACK audio server. The recording editing is also feels better than Audacity.
I actually didn't use much Ardour when I was on Windows because it's was complicated to look at. But once I get to Linux I just slowly take time to understand what is what.
I've been donating $5/month to tulir (https://github.com/tulir), who makes the mautrix Matrix bridges as well as maubot.
I've donated to a few projects over the years, but right now I've got a recurring donation set up via liberapay for the developer of Matrix conduit. It's an incredibly light Matrix home server, I'm running it on a fanless Intel Atom server and it basically uses no CPU. By contrast, I tried synapse on the same server and it was just sitting there at 100% all the time.
I donate to Mozilla and some authors of open source libraries I use. I do it because I benefit from these projects and want to help them out. I maintain a few open source projects of my own and I know how much work it takes to do this.
Usually if I get something fun in return like stickers or merch in general. That makes me show off the project to others in my real life and it's a fun satisfying way to support the team.
True, NixOS has amazing murch and I think that's one of the reason they get so many "donations".
Long time Ardour supporter...
I'm a sponsor on github for spacejam (github user) and elementary OS, and I'm a patron of Hector Martin on patreon.
I'm a $10/mo sponsor of Joplin - I used to pay a touch less than this for Evernote which over the years I've been using it has been pretty stagnant and the developers complacent. Couldn't really get on with Notion and it's still proprietary.
Joplin does everything I want from Evernote (multi device sync, Web clipper plugin, attachments) and more (e2e encryption, FOSS, nice plugin support). Laurent22 is a modern day hero
Lemmy. Fairly obvious why.
KeepassXC, Veracrypt, Tor and Eclipse. I use them every day.
I've donated to Wikipedia & paid for some upgrades for apps I liked to support
To Tachiyomi, read so much manga using it.