OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations
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Re: OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations
#2They have set a goal of raising $150,000 for 2014 so if you haven't already, please consider donating
Re: OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations
#3I love to see that Google is on their top donors page every year, it shows their commitment to supporting open source and the tools they have used to build their business on.
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#4"We would also like to thank the many smaller donors too numerous to list here for their contributons to the foundation."
If you go to the openbsd.org page, it does list the people who have given directly. I would like to see the foundation continue this tradition[1].
It's good to give first credit to the big donors, but it is kind of sad not to give credit to those paying every month[2]. It made me feel pretty good to get my name on the openbsd site's page and did encourage me to donate more.
1) with the donor's permission
2) reminds me a bit of Revision3's t-shirts sent to donors, but only the lump sum people who actually gave less than the monthly donors
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#5It's awesome people came out.
I signed up for the monthly paypal deduction. Many a tech can expense a minor $10-$20 per month subscription for a important project like openbsd.
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#6i like to donate as much as anybody but i'd like to see the exact way the money is spent when i do. Too bad most projects don't document that at all.
Re: OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations
#7i like to donate as much as anybody but i'd like to see the exact way the money is spent when i do. Too bad most projects don't document that at all.
I'm with you but at the same time, who cares? I feel like they already earned every penny, not to mention as long as the project is alive it's money well spent.
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#8i like to donate as much as anybody but i'd like to see the exact way the money is spent when i do. Too bad most projects don't document that at all.
I am not sure if this is what you want, but they describe how they spent in the past years here:
Re: OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations
#9"We would also like to thank the many smaller donors too numerous to list here for their contributons to the foundation." If you go to the openbsd.org page, it does list the people who have given directly. I would like to see the foundation continue this tradition[1]. It's good to give first credit to the big donors, but it is kind of sad not to give credit to those paying every month[2]. It made me feel pretty good…
Hm. I just realized that, while systems like this often display monthly donators, I've never seen one that showed the total donated by a monthly donator. If you've stuck with a monthly donation to X for a couple years, you could easily be in the hundreds, usually reserved for a relative few. It seems like this could be a good reward/incentive for monthly donors (which are probably worth more than one-timers anyway).
Re: OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations
#10http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2104.html
The URL is mistyped, 2104 to 2014