There were some posts over the holiday season asking for projects to donate to, and for those who have the means to comfortably do so, this is an important gift to consider.
If there’s only a limited amount each of us is able to give, I assume there’s no point giving it all to, for one example, The Linux Foundation, because a small personal donation is trivial next to the ~$15,000,000 USD they receive from sponsors dependent on them[1]. I understand that funding sources can be a major and profound source of bias[2] and ideally we would be, for example, helping to make Firefox independent of Google, but until we have more collective power, it’s not worth letting smaller important projects struggle instead.
So, which important projects should we leave to the sponsors, and which really need our support?
AntennaPod states this on their website
AntennaPod doesn’t need a lot of money. Our (annual) costs are already covered by our existing donation funds. Therefore, we’d much prefer it if you
- donate to your favorite podcast(er), or
- help us with a non-monetary contribution.
Wikipedia could learn from their decency
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Yes! Writing software has no barrier to entry besides skills. Hosting something costs.
Maybe I can say Wikipedia because if it’s mediawiki software. Every year they ask for money but a lot of their funds don’t go towards the Wikipedia project.
Getting your ideas from Elon I see.
Did you even read what I said? Go look where their money goes, it’s mostly for random outreach programs.
58% goes to fundraising, administrative and technological costs. The rest has some money going towards, but no limited to, other programs.
Only thing I can find in their financials that would maybe qualify as “random outreach” would be “awards and grants”, at 26mil last year out of 185mil revenue, or 14%.
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund
As far as I can tell, it’s not particularly random.
Maybe I’m missing something?
Jellyfin has explicitly asked that people find other places to donate to: https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriously
I do see a mention in that post about instead supporting the jellyfin client developers. They give this page as a reference for who to support based on which client you use.
Why do people ask questions like this? Isn’t, “Which worthwhile FOSS projects are underfunded?” a better way to say it?
It’s just so kludgy.
I feel like that list would be ridiculously long.
That’s a different question.
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Matrix, Deltachat, Nextcloud more then enough, they can not more even with money
Matrix? Are we going by volume or need? Cause i’m pretty sure they could use more funding.
Don’t get me wrong using the Matrix, etc. But! They constantly complain: there is no money, no money, money appears, problems are not solved as before. A simple infusion of money will not solve anything… Money for what?! There are a lot of similar projects that are conceived and managed by one person, only one, without an army of programmers, managers, managers, etc.
