I donate my time and some money to my local hackerspace [1], and encourage everyone to make a recurring financial contribution to theirs whether they use it or not, especially if it's run as a non-profit/not-for-profit, because we need more Third Places [2] in this world.
Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
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Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#282A couple of open source projects in Open Collective.
It changes over time but currently Vue and FastEndpoints (the C# http toolkit).
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#283I've been donating iTerm2 for 2 years every month and that makes me feel good
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think signal is already funded by USA taxpayers. Wikipedia has a ton of money and for a few decades doesn't really need any donations.
Is the goal of this thread to judge other people's donation choices?
No. But if people are looking for ideas of things to donate to… perhaps it's better to make it known that some do not really need the money.
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thunderbird donations go directly toward funding the Thunderbird project, not the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla Corporation.
I think that there is a reasonable argument to be made that, among other reasons, choosing this kind of structure means that precisely this kind of argument can be made to solicit donations to help fund certain parts of the picture yet therefore but indirectly allow more of other income to remain available for allocation elsewhere.
Hence the allocation of that “other income” is still very much a related concern, but with just enough indirection that Mozilla can evade scrutiny of it when it comes to executive pay.
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#286not technical but might I throw my hat in the ring for https://www.unrwa.org/.
There are major forces in the world trying to shut them down through defamation and they badly need funding to continue helping people in gaza.
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#287I love me some Evennia; a Djano/python-based MUD framework. Saved me the trouble of rebuilding a well-crafted wheel & have been loyal supporter for years now.
https://www.evennia.com/
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#288- Signal - Wikipedia - MyNoise.net - various Emacs package maintainers - Internet Archive If you’ve never seen https://mynoise.net you should check it out. It’s a beautiful collection of exceptionally high-quality recordings that you can tune to create the perfect soundscape for whatever your mood moves you to.
You weren't kidding! https://mynoise.net/ is really good
Stéphane (the guy who makes MyNoise) goes on trips around the world with his recording equipment and drops a new release every few weeks or so. It always makes me happy to see the little red dot on the menu that means a new soundscape has just dropped. Donating directly helps him gather new sounds.
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#289The random kid that compiled the LineageOS version that runs in my phone. I still don't understand why is making LineageOS compatible with more phone models so hard compared to Linux distros in desktop, so I really appreciate all the work behind it.
Because each of those silly companies making phones cannot be bothered to unify their firmware. At least that is my understanding, since I am not part of the Lineage dev team. But I have been using it for years and had many problems with updates and learn thing or two during the years.
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
And the donation goes to the company according to that page.