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

shapis, 10 months ago

Syncthing. With godot as a close second.

TheMechanic, 10 months ago

FreeCAD

tun, 10 months ago

Barrier KDE NeoVim

RobotToaster, 10 months ago

• FreeCAD
• Inkscape
• The free software foundation

worsedoughnut, 10 months ago

Easily the surface-linux kernel project, that level of dedication is incredible and without I wouldn’t have my favorite laptop running linux right now.

And probably all of KDE’s various developers if possible, since I both love the actual desktop environment and all the various tools they provide (like Elisa, Kdenlive, and KDE Connect).

tired_n_bored, 10 months ago

I’d also donate to ReactOS. Nobody uses that (me included) but I see a lot of effort, I’d donate to them

VinS, 10 months ago

• SuperSlicer
• klipper

XPost3000, 10 months ago

Definitely Blender

LollerCorleone, 10 months ago

Kbin, Mastodon, Signal, CryptPad, Bitwarden Libre Office, Paint.NET, OpenShot, Audacity, F-Droid

MazonnaCara89, 10 months ago

Dude paint.net is not opensource other than that I don’t know why you are being downvoted to oblivion.

LollerCorleone, 10 months ago

Oh that's my bad. I never actually realised that they are no longer open source. Am I being downvoted in lemmy.ml? If yes, then I have no idea why and don't really care lol. I would happily support each of the projects I mentioned.

gianni, 10 months ago

Waterfox, CalyxOS, Signal, the JPEG-XL team, GNOME

Hopscotch, 10 months ago

Just FYI, Signal (Open Whisper Systems) is not FOSS-friendly. The server-side software is not open source, they refuse to federate with other Signal implementations, and they are unfriendly to forks. See:

• forum.f-droid.org/t/we-can-include/7373
• forum.f-droid.org/t/signal-not-available/19953
• github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37
• github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal

Hopscotch, 10 months ago

I recommend using Molly instead if you need to communicate with Signal users. Note, the Molly-FOSS flavor excludes proprietary Google libraries entirely.

If you are interested in trying an alternative that is unrelated to Signal, I suggest looking at SimpleX Chat.

citizensv, 10 months ago

They would be the ones I’ve been using for long: Inkscape GIMP xcfe gnome Mx linux Libreoffice Handbrake Rawtherapee Krita Easytag VLC Rhythmbox

There are more. I just donate some bucks now and then but I would like to help them all with more.

largo3, 10 months ago

FreeBSD

sibloure, 10 months ago

GrapheneOS. But hard to say because anything that gives us a choice besides either Apple or Google or Facebook, etc, we desperately need.

deFrisselle, 10 months ago

AROS

ParanoidFactoid, 10 months ago

NATRON (Nuke like compositing engine)

MBS-Labs (human 3D models in Blender)