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?
Matrix, Deltachat, Nextcloud more then enough, they can not more even with money
Wikimedia, and wikipedia, also firefox
Wikipedia could learn from their decency
Jellyfin has explicitly asked that people find other places to donate to: https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriously
Reading the first lines I was gonna say just cause their operating costs are covered doesn’t mean they should refuse more donations, because they could use the money to hire people to fix their garbage software.
But they cleared that up further down where they suggest donating to Jellyfin clients instead, which are indeed the biggest problem at the moment.
Hopefully it will one day become a viable Plex alternative for people that are sharing their server with “normie” users, and not just users that are technologically inclined and willing to use external Android TV boxes instead of hoping their SmartTV has a Jellyfin client available for it that isn’t hot garbage
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.
Thanks for sharing this.
same with antennapod
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.
Their only defence is to support other mediawiki projects, but it is ambiguous we don’t know how the money goes. The project, whatever that is, should speak for itself instead of going through Wikipedia.
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.
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.
That’s a different question.
What makes it a different question, I’m ignorant and ask that you explain
firefox I guess actually has enough funding
leverage inc should, make it happen…
Mozilla is losing the vast majority of its funding soon with the Google antitrust situation
You know hyo cares about whatevever inc? no-one, so yep
