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...or ... You're always welcome to give it to us: https://fosdem.org/2020/support/donate/ :-)
FOSDEM is a huge yearly free and open source developer conference since 20 years. Have a look through our video archives to get an idea of what you'd be supporting.
P.S. Our overhead is basicly zero because we're all volunteers.
Edit: s/meta/umbrella/
Decide what fraction you want to give each of several projects (or make it uniform-probability), and partition the range [0,1] by those fractions. Now draw a random number between 0 and 1 (you can do this online if you like); give the $1000 to the project in whose range you've drawn.
I'm not saying that's such a great idea, but the expected donation to each project remains the same (well, depends on some ontological considerations I suppose).
How about using GitHub Sponsors, OpenCollective or Patreon? https://github.com/sponsors https://opencollective.com https://www.patreon.com
thanks andrefuchs for the links, I wasn't aware of OpenCollective. If I get it correctly I still have to manually find all collectives that I want to support and send them money. So if I want to support 100 projects and I'll have to do 100 transactions?
It is noble to want to help 100 projects, but with limited funds, it would go further on only a couple projects. Think, new laptop, a few months of their CI/CD service, etc.
If you were to donate $1000 to "open source", not much would actually get anywhere useful IMO. On top of this, as a company, donating is… complicated. If you can do it, great, but it's often easier to find a project that has a support contract and pay for that. It gives you a real and justified expense and is in general more stable income for the devs. Furthermore, a renewable contract gives the project predictable i…
As a company, I typically find donating to a company/foss/whatever that "advertises" their donors is the best way to give them money, and it be an advertising expense.
I would recommend to avoid services, which "redistribute" donations. Such companies need to keep a part of money for themselves as running costs, and it is often not clear, if they keep 1% or 90%. And the way they decide who gets what, also might not be clear. I am not saying they are corrupted. I am just saying the transparency is lost with each "man in the middle".
Umbrella organisations would do. There's FSF, FSFE, Software in the Public interest, Software Freedom Conservancy, and more. ...or ... You're always welcome to give it to us: https://fosdem.org/2020/support/donate/ :-) FOSDEM is a huge yearly free and open source developer conference since 20 years. Have a look through our video archives to get an idea of what you'd be supporting. P.S. Our overhead is basicly zero be…
Donate to them here:
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As a company, I typically find donating to a company/foss/whatever that "advertises" their donors is the best way to give them money, and it be an advertising expense.
"Best" for your company's business interests? :-(
I also pay developers for a commercial licenses for FOSS offerings, if they are able, that I never intend on using because the project looked promising.
I donate thousands of dollars a year between charities and open source software, Why wouldn't I do it in the most tax advantageous way?
Umbrella organisations would do. There's FSF, FSFE, Software in the Public interest, Software Freedom Conservancy, and more. ...or ... You're always welcome to give it to us: https://fosdem.org/2020/support/donate/ :-) FOSDEM is a huge yearly free and open source developer conference since 20 years. Have a look through our video archives to get an idea of what you'd be supporting. P.S. Our overhead is basicly zero be…
The Free Software Foundation is not just a meta organization: It's the organization behind GNU! and GNU is a _lot_ of free, and many fundamental, piece of software. Donate to them here: https://my.fsf.org/donate/
I would recommend to choose one library, that is especially important to you, and that you think could be underpaid, and send it to them directly. If everybody does so, other libs will get paid by other donors. I would recommend to avoid services, which "redistribute" donations. Such companies need to keep a part of money for themselves as running costs, and it is often not clear, if they keep 1% or 90%. And the way…
You can also donate for articles or factoids that people shared -- which helped you in your own work or field. If you want to keep this human-scale with a high impact potential for both parties. That gets lost when you give to .orgs