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What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? I'd like to help if I can.
I'm also looking for projects only related to FOSS, or "in-the-spirit" of FOSS.
Bash is mantained by only one guy named Chet and almost all linux devices in the world use it. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
To be fair, he's got a day job as an IT architect in an university, so I think he's set in regards to finances. Codevelopers on the other hand, those would come handy - especially for knowledge transfer
Doesnβt look like there is a way to donate to him?
One thing I found the hard way is that majority of backends for imagick, the suite that powers almost every file conversion and manipulation you see on the internet, are maintained by, at most, one person, if not abandoned completely. I'd say that'd be a good one to donate to, and from which most people would benefit from.
damn for real? With how much imagick is used I imagined it had some real backing
The ones you use. If you use KDE, Thunderbird, Gimp or whatnot you should consider donating to those specifically.
Still, don't forget Wikipedia, it's one of the greatest Open Source projects of all time.
More specifically, donate to the project itself (like Krita) instead of the big KDE umbrella.
krita my beloved
GraphenOS
Fdroid
Signal
KDE
Wikipedia
Open street map
Libreboot.
I provided testing and funding (not as a developer) for computers like the 9020, 9010, 7010, and 780 OptiPlex, as well as the E4300 Latitude and T1700 Precision. All it takes is some collaboration with others in the community to make it possible!
Do you work in enterprise IT?
If all answers are "yes", donate to them.
Not money per se, I believe more hands are necesary to assist/succeed Werner Koch. He is doing a critical task for the internet, and last I read, he is the only one on it.
Not sure why no more upvotes, but I also feel this is a crucial one if not the most crucial one.
Maybe because he's doing ok now, getting 100k plus USD annually from a couple big-ass corporations after he struggled for 20+ years. And living in Germany, one of the best countries to be a citizen of.
I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it, he does plus back pay for all the other work.
Right, but the ask in the response is help, not money
Sure, although the response was to the question: "What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? Iβd like to help if I can."
Plus, it's not easy to assist/succeed critical cryptographic development. I don't think it's something most of us can really help with.
Some ideas
LibreOffice or other open source office suites. Rich word processors, spreadsheet, and slideshow software are seldom thought about but extremely important in the information age, and the duopoly of Microsoft and Google would like nothing more than to see the open source alternatives die so they can take full control of your documents.
Especially if you use Linux as a daily driver: KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Lxqt, other desktop environments. Unless you know how to do everything from the command line, they're probably the things allowing you to use Linux at all. Think about how much funding Windows or Mac development gets, that's because making a full graphical shell and suite of up to date system apps is difficult as fuck and they're massive codebases that require constant maintenance. One could even argue that their development and maintenance is a bigger undertaking than the Linux kernel itself yet most Linux users never think about them, nor do they have the backing of large companies like the kernel does because pretty much all of them use Windows on their workstations even if their server infrastructure runs Linux. And high quality graphical environments are absolutely critical if we're ever to have hope of Linux being adopted by the general public and not just developers and power users. If you use Linux as your main OS and have the cash to spare, considering tossing even a quarter of the cost of a Windows license you didn't buy to your DE of choice and do your part in ensuring that DE stays usable in the future.
Blender is looking for funding to integrate better into professional industry and provide and open source Autodesk replacement
Octoprint (web interface for 3d printers) is one of my favorite open source projects
Iβm glad to hear thatβs still going. I used that a lot a decade ago!
That's been around for a decade?
Good lord, that makes me feel old. I used Slic3r for years until Octoprint came out.
You can donate to the general fund of Software in the Public Interest and let them figure out which of their projects (Debian is the most prominent one) needs the money most.
https://www.spi-inc.org/donations/
One advantage over Software Freedom Conservancy is that, if my memory serves, SFC criticized Richard Stallman and his appointment to the FSF board over the manufactured controversies of the last few years, SPI didn't.
This is literally carnap.io for formal logic teachers. Just a dude in Nebraska holding all of us up. He's not even an academic anymore!
Linux mint or something like it. We need to make them better than Windows and macOS
The Perl and Raku Foundation has seen a big drop in funding over the last decade
Understanding the Financials of The Perl and Raku Foundation
Guitarix! Open source project for guitar/musical instruments that acts as a modeling interface. Recently updated to include NAMs.
Who is this nebraskan that inspired this meme
My vote would be for Phosh. I use it every day.