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.
My vote would be for Phosh. I use it every day.
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Same here on my instance lemmy.ca
the main dev is a transphobe, no thanks. I don't know how they expect to get donations if they say stuff like that. Perhaps donate to sunaurus instead.
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Also KiCad
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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.
wikipedia
They have massive funds, a few years ago I researched both the worldwide and (my) national wiki foundation. Very transparent. So just don't expect your money going to the text based wiki (which is smaller than a TB btw).
They will probably invest in wiki related projects like wikimedia, wiktionary and so on.
brings massive amounts of information to the public, worldwide, in almost every language, for free without advertisements
A rambling piece that boils down to a poorly substantiated opinion.
Namely, the author is under the impression that the wikimedia foundation spends unnecessarily and that, because they raised more than they spend, they should reword their requests for donations.
I half agree with the last point although the author doesn't seem to understand that a couple of tens of millions is not a lot of money for a foundation of wikimedia's calibre.
As for the first point: the author simply assumes that the spending is unnecessary. This is at best substantiated with other people's opinions. If the author had presented actual detail on the expenditures, they could've made an actual case. However, the absence of such detail gives off the impression that there is no real substance to this criticism
Here's a few I can think of (without knowing whether or not they desperately need it):
- Debian
- Arch Linux
- Anna's Archive
- FSF
- Libreboot
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OpenSSL?
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
- Lemmy.ca
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
Hello, you might be interested to this post I loved and enjoyed to read: https://www.arscyni.cc/file/take_my_money.html
@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.
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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 isnβt itself a non profit in need of funding per say but they do good work and itβs 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 youβre 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!
There's an npm command that lists packages that need funding
npm fund
i cant donate bcs i dont got a credit card sadly :(
This has the basic shape of a substation transformer and I'm here for it.
the one that you make money from it
we all agree about the 'free' part, right?