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If you had $5,000 to donate to your favourite open-source projects, which one would they be?
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Half to debian, half to i3wm.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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FreeCAD
Definitely this order:
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FreeCAD
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KiCAD
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Jellyfin
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Bazarr
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Immich
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Prusaslicer
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Homeassistant
Freecad definitely needs the money.
Barrier KDE NeoVim
Syncthing. With godot as a close second.
- FreeCAD
- Inkscape
- The free software foundation
Definitely Blender
- SuperSlicer
- klipper
I'd also donate to ReactOS. Nobody uses that (me included) but I see a lot of effort, I'd donate to them
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).
GrapheneOS. But hard to say because anything that gives us a choice besides either Apple or Google or Facebook, etc, we desperately need.
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.
FreeBSD
Waterfox, CalyxOS, Signal, the JPEG-XL team, GNOME
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:
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.
I'd donate it to one or more open source projects that make the most positive impact in society
AROS
NetBSD
GIMP for sure.
2004Scape.org or Godot (that’s already been mentioned though)
Minetest maybe. Microsoft is making some bad choices for minecraft and I'd like to see more love for its open source competitor.