• मुक्त@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    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.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        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.

          • comfy@lemmy.ml
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            23 days ago

            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.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        That’s been around for a decade?

        Good lord, that makes me feel old. I used Slic3r for years until Octoprint came out.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    The 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.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 days ago

    You can donate to the general fund of Software in the Public Interest and let them figure out which of their projects (Debian is the most prominent one) needs the money most.

    https://www.spi-inc.org/donations/

    One advantage over Software Freedom Conservancy is that, if my memory serves, SFC criticized Richard Stallman and his appointment to the FSF board over the manufactured controversies of the last few years, SPI didn’t.

  • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    One thing I found the hard way is that majority of backends for imagick, the suite that powers almost every file conversion and manipulation you see on the internet, are maintained by, at most, one person, if not abandoned completely. I’d say that’d be a good one to donate to, and from which most people would benefit from.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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    23 days ago

    i cant donate bcs i dont got a credit card sadly :(

    • freeman@feddit.org
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      23 days ago

      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.

    • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
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      24 days ago

      brings massive amounts of information to the public, worldwide, in almost every language, for free without advertisements

  • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
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    24 days ago

    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.

    • ironsoap@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      24 days ago

      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
    • ironsoap@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      24 days ago

      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.

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        24 days ago

        For real. I’ve been anxiously awaiting developments, but it seems that no more developments are likely to happen until September.

  • comma@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    24 days ago

    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
    • freeman@feddit.org
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      23 days ago

      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.