Over the last 6 months or so I’ve been trying to switch to (mostly) open source software. I’d like to somehow contribute to the software I use and the people making it, but I have no programming expertise or other skills that would be useful. Is there anywhere I can set up a monthly donation so I can at least help support the people who do have those skills?

  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    26 days ago

    That was my first thought, but I hoped there was some kind of foundation that supported multiple developers/projects to which I could set up a recurring donation.

    • ambitiousslab@feddit.ukEnglish
      12·
      26 days ago

      There are a few such foundations!

      • NLnet (among other things) donates to a lot of fediverse and similar projects, including multiple donations for lemmy.
      • Software in the Public Interest acts as a fiscal host for its 45 member projects. You can make a general donation, or a donation to specific projects.
      • The Software Freedom Conservancy, among other things, acts as a fiscal host for its projects. You can donate to individual projects, or make a general donation to conservancy and they will use it in whatever way best advances software freedom.
      • Likewise, the FSF has a “Working together for free software fund” which has a few projects listed. I can’t see a way to donate to the fund as a whole, but if you don’t mind some (most?) of the money going to things that aren’t directly developing software, you could make a standard donation to the FSF.
    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      01·
      26 days ago

      That is not a thing. But every donation platform out there that the various developers use has a “recurring donation” option that is almost what you are looking for.