If you had $5,000 to donate to your favourite open-source projects, which one would they be?

kaleid, 10 months ago

Loads of good choices here, i would like to add calibre and darktable.

MyNameIsRichard, 10 months ago

KDE, Lemmy, Mozilla, Eclipse, and openSUSE. £1000 each.

raubarno, 10 months ago

• ReactOS (to transition towards x86_64)
• XFCE
• Eclipse
• GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
• Krita
• RawTherapee
• Fornjot (the CAD written in Rust)

Pyrozo007, 10 months ago

Sponsorblock

JustEnoughDucks, 10 months ago

Definitely this order:

• FreeCAD
• KiCAD
• Jellyfin
• Bazarr
• Immich
• Prusaslicer
• Homeassistant

AdrianTheFrog, 10 months ago

Freecad definitely needs the money.

ace_garp, 10 months ago

Probably some others after more thought… but first off, to:

Trisquel GNU/Linux

LibreOffice

VLC

GIMP

Audacity

Mixxx

Xiph.org (Ogg/Theora)

Aard2

7-Zip

wget

Vim

uBlock Origin

LineageOS

Blender Studio Films (open films)

Pepper & Carrot (webcomic)

Celestia

Minetest

Lichess

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greywolf0x1, 10 months ago

Thanks for talking about pepper and carrot. It’s so great to see something so good be free.

0xCAFE, 10 months ago

uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don’t take donations. So my list would roughly contain:

• Organic Maps
• Thunderbird
• Internet Archive
• Codeberg

I’d like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it’s not possible to only support Firefox development.

TheImpressiveX, 10 months ago

uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don’t take donations.

You can always donate to the people who maintain the filter lists!

mp3, 10 months ago

Joplin. End-to-end-encrypted, markdown-formatted note-taking app that you can either sync using the cloud, Syncthing, or use entirely offline.

Kiwix since it allows accessing some services offline (Wikipedia, iFixit, StackOverflow) where Internet cannot be taken for granted. You can host a small Kiwix server than can be accessed as a local hotspot and browser whatever packages were downloaded into it.

drbi, 10 months ago

Desktop:

Debian.
xfce.
Firefox.
Thunderbird.
mpv.

Android:
Tachiyomi. Newpipe.
K-9 mail.
Fennec.
F-droid.
Simple app suite.

danileonis, 10 months ago

PeerTube

WillyWonksters, 10 months ago

GrapheneOS

Tiritibambix, 10 months ago

I’ve already done a small donation to Pihole because I’m broke. If I had 5k to donate, that money would go to them again.

XPost3000, 10 months ago

Definitely Blender

brayd, 10 months ago

The Tor project, Libre Office, Signal, Matrix.org, NixOS, Fedora

bitsplease, 10 months ago

A lot of the options listed in this thread are good choices - but most are big projects that get a fair amount of financial attention as it is (though very rarely enough to actually support the devs).

If I had $5k to donate to a project, I’d choose some of the really small FOSS projects that I use heavily, like AudiobookShelf