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Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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

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Post by Elaris »

I rarely donate on the internet because it’s hard to verify the authenticity of many causes. Unless I know someone personally or the situation is something I can trust, I find it hard to commit. I feel that donations only truly carry meaning when they are directed towards something real and tangible. For me, it’s more about going to the ground and understanding the situation firsthand before making any decision.

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

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Post by vallassy »

I'm not entirely sure that these fall specifically under the 'donation' and 'digital initiative' categories that OP specified, but these are the institutions and pieces of software that offer their wares for free which I use often enough to give money to/purchase from.

- Octoprint

- Grayjay/Futo

- Internet Archive

- Opensubtitles

- The Guardian

I used to donate to Wikipedia, but for various reasons switched that donation to IA.

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

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Post by slyall »

I do an annual post with my charitable contributions

https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2024/12/donations-2024/

Projects I'm donating to (not every year):

  - Syncthing
  - Internet Archive
  - Python
  - Let's Encrypt
  - Electronic Frontier Foundation
I used to donate to Software in the Public Interest, The Software Freedom Conservancy and LibreOffice but they use Paypal which is blocking charity donations from Asia/Pacific. The loss of the first two is annoying since it was easier to donate to them than multiple projects.

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

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Post by TZubiri »

I'm making a small local MSP. And my monetization model is to imitate the business model of my vendors. If they use gmail for email, I don't charge, and only charge if they buy workspace (which I highly recommend). If they use office365, I charge the same for support (like 10$/u/month).

Now for free stuff, they have to pay by donations, if they use Roundcube for email, there goes a shekel or two, if they use Linux, gotta pay up, wordpress? Yup, drama notwithstanding, here's a buck.

It may seem like a disadvantage commercially, but I have faith that having a direct line with these guys and growing a sponsor reputation with upstream projects will pay off in the future.

Now I'm working with a client who had a website that was dead, so her graphic assets pointed to a dead site which was not bueno. I used Internet Archive to help revive the site, so they're gonna have a 'tip' coming their way. Everything has its price and its worth!

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