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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true fact: Nebraska is the Heartland of the Internet.
If this is true is there any elaboration on what that exactly means? Always looking to learn haha.
just a joke
I donate to the one I’m using right now: https://join-lemmy.org/donate
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
If you have a solid torrent setup and a few hundred GBs of free space, you can support Annas Archive by seeding big chunks of the books.
Not sure if it’s directly related, but I donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). They’re quite active in the technology space and I feel that they also carry the FOSS ethos.
I didn’t know they take donations. Good to know.
It was just attacked by hackers a few months ago, no to mention all the lawsuits they’ve been getting, and cost of maintenance of TERABYTES of data. They really need the funding to survive.
Pretty sure the internet archive is dealing with Petabytes, if not Exabytes.
Yea, I have terabytes of data in my closet
That’s a lot of porn.
there’s a yo-momma joke here.
“Yo momma so old and retro she’s freely available to all on archive.org”?
*Linux ISOs
Yeah, that’s what they said.
Imagine how much the internet archive has!
A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 145+ Petabytes of server space – and we store at least 2 copies of everything).
FreeCAD!
Also KiCad
wikipedia
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
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.
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
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 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
This is an interesting approach that needs wide exposure.
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.
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 sprite of the xkcd you linked, Isaac Muse could probably use some funding
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.
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!
This has the basic shape of a substation transformer and I’m here for it.
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.
