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submitted 2 hours ago by glaber@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Hello, I started donating to my favourite open-source projects a couple years ago, but stopped about 6 months ago for different reasons and wanted to get back into it.

I wanted to ask if anyone here has a set system or process they follow when donating

  • How much money do you donate? A set amount, whatever you feel like, a percentage of your earnings?

  • When do you donate? Whenever you remember, on the first of the month, Thursdays?

  • Do you have a minimum donation amount?

  • How do you decide what projects to support? Do you forego donations if you've contributed in other ways? Do you keep a list?

  • Do you donate to all equally or do you have some sort of ranking? Is it by amount of use, subjective preference, something else?

  • What platforms do you prefer using? Liberapay, Opencollective, Patreon, ko-fi, Paypal, Monero, actual post?

So far the system I've devised for myself would go something like:

  • put 2 % of all my earnings, whatever they are, in a separate account
  • every quarter (on the first of January, April, July and October) donate the full amount of money in the account (with a minimum of 5 €, so as not to lose a big amount in fees)
  • keep a ranked list of projects that I've used or deemed important or promising in the last three months (projects I donated to recently go to the bottom of the list), things at the top get more money than things at the bottom
  • prioritise Liberapay since it's open-source itself
[-] glaber@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago
  • birdwatchers
[-] glaber@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

My hometown has very similar ones and they can hold up to 25 people adding up seating and standing space, don't underestimate them

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We must rally behind score voting, and not ranked choice (at least that is, if we want actual reform to stick)

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago

Surprisingly, the British Indian Ocean Territory is not in the Pacific ocean, but the Indian Ocean.

Being serious though, yeah, it's a really good strategic location

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the explanation! Such a shame that anti-Zionism is so often conflated with antisemitism

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

Why is Czechia obvious?

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago
[-] glaber@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

Anyone here know of a good open-source and/or federated platform for music and podcasts? I heard of Funkwhale, but is it usable?

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

The former Soviet Union, China, Korea and Japan are big exceptions to this though

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Let's all buy it from him and just set it to redirect to joinmastodon.org

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Hopefully Ladybird turns out well

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Currently running DivestOS on my second-hand fully degoogled Fairphone 3 and everything works pretty much perfectly (a couple minor things are glitchy but it's only aesthetic). I get 80 % of my apps from F-Droid and the remaining from Aurora Store. Things like my bank apps also work after setting up microG

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