Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

Post by agumonkey » Tue, May 27, 2025, 2:13 PM UTC

    - magit
    - endeavouros
    - sometimes random helper tools when they save my ass
    - some opencollective member group I forgot
    - did give to wikipedia but their 'in your face' style pushed me away after 2 years

Post by mrsilencedogood » Tue, May 27, 2025, 2:22 PM UTC

eskibars wrote: post #118

neom wrote: post #11

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…

This is super important, and critical reading for anyone commenting on OSS financing. I've been a product management lead for 2 commercial open-core companies and people drastically overestimate: - How much code the community contributes (in both cases, >95% of all code was written by employees hired by the commercial company) - How few commercial resources are needed to support the community (running forums, answeri…

Post by vishnumohandas » Tue, May 27, 2025, 2:23 PM UTC

shelled wrote: post #161

vishnumohandas wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, one of the folks working on Ente here, thanks for supporting us! Are there any interactions that you find annoying within the app? It'd be great if you could specifics, we'd like to explore what is feasible within the bounds of Flutter. Thanks again!

Hey, first of all if was bad or annoying I would not have began to use it. It's not bad, it's actually good generally speaking and from the functionality point of view. You have done a great job considering you had to deal with one of the most private data on two platforms who are very sceptical about giving data access and in their own different ways. Not to mentioned the kinds of feature you all offer while keeping…

Post by ninjin » Tue, May 27, 2025, 2:31 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #102

I’ve sent money to openbsd. They might not be popular to use, but the absolute freedom of the software along with how simple it is written makes it an incredible “good” for studying OS design. I have also donated to the FSFE (European FSF) and the Linux foundation, but we don’t get tax incentives for donating to charity in most european countries. So it’s quite costly.

Post by neutronicus » Tue, May 27, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

x_may wrote: post #203

miki123211 wrote: post #193

The only software project I donate to is NVDA[1]. It's an open source screen reader, AKA software that makes it possible for the blind to use computers through synthesized speech. It's one of the few open source projects (besides Blender and GIMP) that is used directly by non-technical end-users and that has managed to surpass its commercial brethren , both in features and popularity. This is partly due to its extrem…

Unfortunate name collision on that one