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Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by jorams »

teekert wrote: post #92

Signal, Wikipedia, I'd consider my Obsidian sync a donation. I donate to some podcasts. Edit: Come to think of it, these are all projects that ask for money, but not often enough to be annoying. I bet I'd donate to KDE (or Gnome or NixOS) if I'd ever get a notification and it's a 1 min click-click-click experience.

KDE, starting with Plasma 6.2, shows a notification once per year[1] and indeed it works[1]. They make donating[3] very easy.

[1]: https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-i... [2]: https://pointieststick.com/2024/12/02/i-think-the-donation-n... [3]: https://kde.org/donate/

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by wrasee »

newscracker wrote: post #48

Below I’m listing some of the projects I donate to: DownThemAll , a browser extension that makes multiple simultaneous downloads from a page easy: https://www.downthemall.org/howto/donate/ Free Software Foundation (FSF) : https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate LibreOffice : https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/ Mozilla Thunderbird : https://give.thunderbird.net/ Soundswitch (Windows application to switch default play…

I, personally, would find it hard to donate to Mozilla knowing the CEO is paid $6 million a year. Compared to the size of the firm that’s a huge amount of pay.

At this point I plan to donate to Ladybird instead. Excited for that project.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by nfriedly »

vinnski wrote: post #89

• Standard Ebooks • Internet Archive • Local libraries Projects I wish I could donate to: • uBlock Origin

For uBlock Origin, I tracked down all the folks who maintain the filter lists I use, and donate to them individually if they accept donations.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by ramon156 »

wrasee wrote: post #174
newscracker wrote: post #48

Below I’m listing some of the projects I donate to: DownThemAll , a browser extension that makes multiple simultaneous downloads from a page easy: https://www.downthemall.org/howto/donate/ Free Software Foundation (FSF) : https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate LibreOffice : https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/ Mozilla Thunderbird : https://give.thunderbird.net/ Soundswitch (Windows application to switch default play…

I, personally, would find it hard to donate to Mozilla knowing the CEO is paid $6 million a year. Compared to the size of the firm that’s a huge amount of pay. At this point I plan to donate to Ladybird instead. Excited for that project.

Difference between mozilla the company and the organization

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by Ayesh »

- ISRG/LetsEncrypt: it's amazing how much if an impact they are having in HTTPS, and that's with a very small number of people and resources.

- PHP Foundation.

- Drupal Association - I started my career with Drupal. Although I rarely use Drupal anymore, it feels right.

I wish I could donate to uBlock Origin, but the developer doesn't seem to accept donations last time I checked.

I think the Open Street Map is also well worth donating, I'm going to pretty soon.

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