I’ve got some standing orders of 1 or 2 euros every month for bigger projects like grapheneos and kde. And for small apps that I actively use, I try to donate 5 or 10 euros now and then. It’s not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run
I live by rule “if everyone gave me 1 euro…” so I donate 1 euro/month to projects I use often (but I send actually 12/year to spare the devs some trx costs) and 1 euro/year to projects that I use sometimes (again I send 5 Eur/5 years actually). I use almost only open source and I haven’t yet paid everyone. I also recently made an open source application where I didn’t setup any donations channel, I simply like doing it… Maybe in the future if I have more work on it, but not now…
I donate to Signal. I intend to increase my contributions to other open source (Linux) projects this year though. I expect them to need it more than ever soon.
None, I’m unemployed and don’t have the money to spare :3
When I still had my last job I would donate really any time I thought about it, around 5-10$ a time. Still not really enough, but it was part time minimum wage.
hoping to figure that out this year, once I do an overhaul of what I’m using and figuring out
just know that half of my budget for this will come from what I was previously spending on mega corp subscriptions (not much, but more than I am now). the other half will be based on its value to me
I donate 0. I hope I’ll be able to do more once I get the new job. (I have a monthly donation budget, but it’s spent on other causes at the moment.)
None.
Reason being simply financial responsibility - if something is free, then giving out money for it seems wasteful, like throwing money out of the window. You can argue it’s not much, I got value from, it supports the developer, it’s the moral thing to do, and you would probably be right. But this is simply not the priority perspective from which I am looking at it.
You’re not throwing money out the window though, you’re giving it directly to someone. Someone who has used their craft to create something that has value to you. I’m not necessarily criticising you for not donating, I just want to shift your perspective that your money wouldn’t be valued by other people.
I know, but if it was that easy to shift perspectives, the world would be a completely different place. I dislike the donation format since it plays a lot on the moral and psychology of the person - how much is enough, how much value does it actually provide me etc. Like I am the one doing the sales for the person. I much rather have a clear price.
Maybe it’s just because of donations and the “uncertainty” it makes me feel. I did pay for open source software before (open source != free), guess I prefer just to see a clear price tag.
That’s a fair take. I can relate to the feeling of uncertainty. When I make small donations of a couple of euros I have to push away my feelings that the donation could be seen as insultingly low. It’s hard to judge what a “fair” price is. But after all, many donation buttons say “Buy me a coffee” so I would hope the amount is appreciated either way.
Found the economist
Not sure what is that supposed to mean? I can only assume it is supposed to be some kind of insult, and can only invite me in the future never to even reconsider donating, seeing how “not doing what I expect you to do” creates toxic comments and bashing.
Care to elaborate?
Not as much as I should be tbh.
Change that, it’s the only way there projects will survive.
I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.
Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲
I donate 25€ per month to Droidian. It uses the Android kernel to run a Debian based Linux distro on phones.
Though I would rather see mainline Linux on phones succeed, I believe this could be the best alternative to iOS / Android (OS) until that happens.
Every month about 10-20 euro, but nothing recurring. I setup a list of my open source tools and I try to one at a time donate to each one. But its a slow process and feels too less, but I don’t want to do recurring ones, though I know it would be the best for the projects.
None because I’m barely managing to avoid homelessness each month if I made more then I would do so though.
No problem we each do what we can in this hard world.
When one of my “cloud” devices / services becomes “enshittified”, I’ll donate what the provide is asking to a related open source self-hosted project.
I also “buy” the major update for whatever software I use regularly.
1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.
Nothing because I literally have no money
I don’t have “literally no money” but yeah I’m in the same boat. Used to donate but with the price of everything going up the last couple of years, it’s drained any and all discretionary spending…
Look on a price comparison site. Most of the bill increases are due to the loyalty tax.
huh?
Companies always give their best deals to new customers. You are likely paying way higher than market rate for your bills.
That’s not the issue, I promise.
Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.
