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.
The Perl and Raku Foundation have seen a big drop in funding over the last decade
Understanding the Financials of The Perl and Raku Foundation
Try Olive Editor
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/
- Are they useful and/or essential for you/your causes?
- Is their funding model transparent?
- Do they need more funds to hit their financial goal for sustaining themselves?
If all answers are “yes”, donate to them.
Guitarix! Open source project for guitar/musical instruments that acts as a modeling interface. Recently updated to include NAMs.
Wikipedia, Tor, Archive.org
Tor its from se CIA so I think its not needed…
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?
true fact: Nebraska is the Heartland of the Internet.
Yep and then a helpful programmer from the North Korean army offers to take it off his hands.
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 mapOctoprint (web interface for 3d printers) is one of my favorite open source projects
I’m glad to hear that’s 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.
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? I’d 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
- Gimp
- Blender
- Godot
- Tenacity
- Inkscape
- Signal Desktop
- GrapheneOS
- LibreOffice
- KDE
- Codeberg
