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What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? I'd like to help if I can.
I'm also looking for projects only related to FOSS, or "in-the-spirit" of FOSS.
Here's a few I can think of (without knowing whether or not they desperately need it):
wikipedia
brings massive amounts of information to the public, worldwide, in almost every language, for free without advertisements
They have massive funds, a few years ago I researched both the worldwide and (my) national wiki foundation. Very transparent. So just don't expect your money going to the text based wiki (which is smaller than a TB btw).
They will probably invest in wiki related projects like wikimedia, wiktionary and so on.
A rambling piece that boils down to a poorly substantiated opinion.
Namely, the author is under the impression that the wikimedia foundation spends unnecessarily and that, because they raised more than they spend, they should reword their requests for donations.
I half agree with the last point although the author doesn't seem to understand that a couple of tens of millions is not a lot of money for a foundation of wikimedia's calibre.
As for the first point: the author simply assumes that the spending is unnecessary. This is at best substantiated with other people's opinions. If the author had presented actual detail on the expenditures, they could've made an actual case. However, the absence of such detail gives off the impression that there is no real substance to this criticism
OpenSSL?
Don't know if my contributions are best (or can be placed under these lists) but they are ones I enjoy and appreciate
the fediverse instance that I use and want to support
Why Lemmy.ca?
Asking cause I've only really been exposed to .world and .ml and would like to know the advantages and disadvantages of switching up.
Because I'm Canadian and the instance is Canadian moderated by people in Canada who do their best to keep the service and servers as Canadian as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if the servers hosting the instance were liquid cooled with maple syrup, the racks held together with hockey sticks and hockey tape and the whole thing guarded by polar bears.
polar bears.
... conTINually smashed on Sortilege....
well .ml is special, most probaboy don't have a problem there but if you do you really do (ask me why the anime community on lemmy.ml is practically dead)
.world is just suffering from success, they regularly have federation troubles with other instances because they are by far the largest one and hence run into scaling troubles. Other than that it's the most reddit like moderation wise also due to being so big. It's courtesy to steer people away from .world simply to prevent the scaling problems from getting worse
Hello, you might be interested to this post I loved and enjoyed to read: https://www.arscyni.cc/file/take_my_money.html
@comma@midwest.social This is an extremely thorough answer directly to your question. It even has the same xkcd comic in the conclusion!
My opinion: We really need to be supporting this stuff with tax money. Meantime give money to orgs that advocate for related causes to benefit all or distribute grants. EFF, FSF, Right 2 Repair, public and specialty libraries.
Cool blog post, thanks for sharing.
There are a few nitpicks in my opinion (e.g. the uBlock Origin page hints to donate to list maintainers or at least that's the message I got, K-9 Mail has a relationship with Thunderbird Mail and so I believe donations are possible, I think rule 4 is too strict by disallowing any project where cryptocurrency donations are an option because despite its issues the main ones are legitimate ways of donating to projects without giving personal data to other corporations like PayPal/Stripe/etc.) so I would use this blog as a useful exploration rather than an ultimate who-to-donate-to guide.
I'm glad they didn't just stop at the number and went on to explore scale and that being able to donate an impactful amount for more than a few tools is a privilege. While I disagree that UBI is a realistic solution (it's a reformist coping mechanism) or that taxes are likely to go towards this kind of critical infrastructure, it's great to see the discussion was brought up and integrated, alongside critique of so-called philanthropy.
Also, I've never seen the yin-yang symbol used as a light/dark mode button, I really like that.
This is an interesting approach that needs wide exposure.
My vote would be for Phosh. I use it every day.
Lemmy
Also, if you like your instance and they accept donations, that too. Reminder that hosting a website costs money every month and since most instances don't have ads (and probably aren't selling your data), they operate at a loss to provide services for free.
If you like your instance, you can keep it.
Yep and then a helpful programmer from the North Korean army offers to take it off his hands.
Maybe the real commits were the Jongs they merged along the way...
Proton, the Swiss based, privacy focused VPN and cloud services provider does a $10 raffle for a lifetime accounts with all proceeds and a match up to $150k to a list of ten privacy/foss focused charities & organizations. Proton isnβt itself a non profit in need of funding per say but they do good work and itβs an easy way to put a small amount towards some worthy cause, and possibly win a decent product in the process. Wont post links to avoid looking like a shill, but the list on their page for the raffle might also be a good place to look if youβre wanting to donate to something directly.
Currently ongoing until Jan 5 2024. $10 per ticket. https://shop.proton.me/products/2024-lifetime-raffle-ticket
Where will the funds go?
Proceeds will go to 10 organizations selected with the support of our community and to a handful of past fundraisers beneficiaries, with Proton matching up to $150,000 in donations. The new recipients this year are:
Ty!
i cant donate bcs i dont got a credit card sadly :(
There's an npm command that lists packages that need funding
npm fund
This has the basic shape of a substation transformer and I'm here for it.
the one that you make money from it
we all agree about the 'free' part, right?