Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

Here I am for the millionth time, on HN, reminding everyone of an amazing gift: 2016 report by Nadia Asparouhova - "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure"[1] - Please do take the time to read and share it, it's been almost 10 years since Nadia published this work with the hope of inspiring some change outside of the OSS world, I'd suggest we need her words now more than ever. Thank you!

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report...

I make a monthly donation to Magit, the git front end for Emacs. One of the few pieces of software that puts a smile on my face every time I use it and I use it 20 times a day.

https://magit.vc/donate/

- Libreoffice

- Internet Archive

- Wikipedia

- Bandcamp - a bit off-topic but the music industry has become an exponentially distributed winner-takes-all game. I resist by buying underground music on Bandcamp - it's an exemplary web platform, gives generous cuts to the artist, and you own the files. Even if I only listen to the song a couple times it feels good knowing 80% of the money is going straight to talented artists and 20% is going to a beacon of hope on the internet. Money spent on Bandcamp feels good.

Gentoo Linux

SPCA (and other cat shelters) in various places

A guy in Brazil who coded up:

https://nodezator.com/

because it was the first Python node editor which "just worked" out of the box when I tried to run it.

Based on a game dev system which was called Indie Python, the main site is now at:

https://indiesmiths.com/

I kick in to Wikipedia via Microsoft Rewards points whenever they are matching points, or if I have a surplus of Amazon gift card money 'cause there haven't been any Kindle book sales I bought into for a while.