If so, how do you choose which ones to donate to? Do you prefer regular or recurring donations? What payment methods do you like to use?

  • electricprism@lemmy.ml
    57·
    2 months ago

    Sent $500 to FOSS projects one month.

    Banned from /r/Linux on BlackFriday for making a post trying to make Linux BF deals a thing and clear our reputation as a non-market.

    Fuck you CAP_WHATEVER_JERK_NAME

    In any case it demonstrated to me

    #1. Fuck Reddit

    #2. Fuck communities that are not autonomous with the power spread out.

    10/10 would do again.

    Edit: Also CAP – that friend who was diagnosed with cancer that same day is now deceased, thanks for showing me your lack of humanity & decency over petty bullshit. That shit catches up with you fast trust me.

      • electricprism@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        Thanks, it restores my faith in our community to get a complement.

        I felt like I had finally made it in life where I was sustaining and so I did maybe a dozen donations to software I actually used as a signal of thanks.

        I tried to make the amounts at least equal to commercial counterparts or at $100 each since it’s enough of an amount a developer will understand the deep appreciation and value others have in their gifted labor and to encourage them to keep up the awesome work.

        I probably did at least another 1k that year to specialized Linux FOSS apps that professionals use – KDE, gimp, krita, inkscape, libreoffice, etc… – I don’t have as much free time to put into bug reports and grinding triaging bugs so I figured material could be a way to help out.

        Thanks for listening to me vent. IIUC that mod was later removed 6?m later after a burnout blowup and they unbanned a number of people as per request but I decided not to request being unbanned as I felt that the writing was on the wall and it underscored __ the need __ for Linux Forums and Communities to not be controlled by any one person, niche group, or commercial interest. Thus I made my avatar a picture of Mastodon on a 100k karma profile over 10 years of Linux and here we are in the future hopefully in a new place where we can be free and live by the principles of libre and FOSs to share and help each other.

        In any case, sincerely thank you for being courageous and restoring my faith that there are people out there that share my values and digital love for open source. Cheers :)

  • federino@programming.dev
    3·
    2 months ago

    No. I’m from Brazil and I really wanted to contribute to Brazilian developers, because my currency is nothing next to the euro or dollar, so I think: what’s the point? I can donate a considerable amount and that would be like 5€, I want to make a bigger impact.

    I also really want to see some project or developer from my country grow, but I just can’t never find anything that came from here.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Donating even a very small amount sends a signal, and makes the developers feel valued. You spent time and effort to send a token amount, that is a strong emotional event.

  • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    I have to admit that I don’t. I have done a couple of one-off donations before but I generally hope that my karma is balanced by some of the effort I put into helping out with a couple of projects.

    That said, I’ve been utterly floored as to how generous the community has been with donating to one project I help with in particular. We added a donation platform with OpenCollective early on in the project but kind of hid the link away a little in the navbar, I thought we might get a tiny bit thrown at us every so often. When Distrotube did a video on us, one of the comments he made is that we should make the Donate button much more obvious, we did and now we have a whole bunch of super generous sponsors backing the project and making it possible. We keep the spending as open as we possibly can - it mostly goes into our backend hosting costs and website stuff and really does help it all stay alive.

    • makeasnek@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Love hearing from devs that donations are coming into their projects, thank you for sharing that! Contributing time and expertise is just as important thank you for your contributions 🫡🫡🫡

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Rarely, but I’ve contributed to a couple that I use.

    Also, just a note that writing big reports is a valid contribution! It can really help both the regular maintainers finding and fixing bugs, but also gives new devs more potential work to pick up for first contributions.

  • slembcke@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, I make a comfortable living doing software, and having kids didn’t work out. So I give out a few hundred bucks a year spread across the likes of Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, and some one off donations to smaller projects that end up saving me some time. Free software costs me more than proprietary software. Haha. (Well, unless I factor in the software I use for work… Then not even close O_o)

    I get the impression that maybe the money sent to Mozilla might be a waste though. :-\

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    7·
    2 months ago

    I can’t really afford recurring donations but I’ve done one-off donations to projects I value (especially smaller ones).

  • ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I make a few donations every year totalling 20€ in january, not much, but maybe one day I can give more, or contribute in other ways.

  • elvith@feddit.org
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’m donating to a few projects and also to some fediverse admins, whose instance I use.

    I really like liberapay as a platform, but there are other ways I use for donations, too. Recurring payment is preferred for projects that are important for me, but one time donations are fine too. I just constantly forget that I should probably donate again for projects that don’t have a way for Recurring donations and they’re probably missing out…