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Re: Ask HN: FOSS Projects Worth Donating To?

#2
Ampache has been around for over 15 years but they are always improving. When it first started at a college I donated beer but they also accept money. [1] I think they would prefer contributions in the form of software development. [2]

Ampache is A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager. Allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.

[1] - https://ampache.org/donate.html

[2] - https://github.com/ampache/ampache

Re: Ask HN: FOSS Projects Worth Donating To?

#3
I support those, and I believe they deserve more:

- SerenityOS [0], they do get some donations, but nothing close to the Linux Foundation, Wikipedia, or Mozilla.

- MikroORM [1] if you'd like to support an ORM for TypeScript in the backend, again some donations, but nothing close to SerenityOS!

[0]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

[1]: https://github.com/mikro-orm/mikro-orm

Re: Ask HN: FOSS Projects Worth Donating To?

#6
I’m very much robotics oriented but I currently support two people on GitHub:

- Davide Faconti (https://github.com/facontidavide) for his work on BehaviorTrees that are game changing for some projects and for his plotting library that saved me hours of time debugging robotics systems

- Atsushi Sakai (https://github.com/AtsushiSakai) for his collection PythonRobotics with neat visualizations of some of the concepts

Re: Ask HN: FOSS Projects Worth Donating To?

#7
https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/ ~40 projects taking donations there

You can also browse the list of participating organizations for last google summer of code for FOSS foundations etc. geared up to manage donations.

Edit: not going to plug any specific ones, but this will get you a candidate list. I would personally start by looking at underlying software that has helped you most in earning your living.

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