this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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Do donations really come in all at 1 or 2 given dates per year?
I would assume non-recurring donors average out over the months. Maybe there is a bit more in holiday season.
But if I donate 200$ in May, are there no other people in the world that donate 200$ in June and then others still in July etc.?
edit:
I could not find any donation stats/charts for gnome. But assuming they are similar to KDE, it looks pretty managable to me. There seems to be a solid baseline of about 4k per month and then some months have huge extras. It does not seem very complicated to budget that.
2025: https://kde.org/community/donations/previousdonations/
2024 looks way more wild. But that is when they introduced the donation popup by the end of the year.
2024:
It's easier to sell the idea that you will get x million this year based on a monthly forecast compared to a yearly forecast.
The question is why do I pay once and not monthly for many services? Because they don't provide bank details and only let me donate via stripe or paypal. Donating 50ct via stripe per momth is just nuts. So, I have to donate 10 bucks once every two years so that We don't pay too much to stripe (and even then stripe gets way too much)