Do you give money to Open Source projects?

ejfinneran · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 18

I was just curious on how many people donate money to their favorite open source projects. How do you contribute?

I haven't in the past but I plan to start soon.

thaldyron · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject:

What about the option "I'm contributing source code or docs instead of money"? That's what a lot of Gentoo users do by making ebuilds.

dice · Guru Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 577

I contribute code, money, and bug reports

idl · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 11:43 pm Post subject:

LinuxDolt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 104

i do not do any contributing... however i do feel like i ought to contribute something, at least to the community as a whole. which is part of why i have begun working on xMEAK... and why i like to try to help people when i know something and no one else has helped them yet...

i do not have any money to contribute

hook · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 1:01 am Post subject:

i contribute bug tracking, ideas, morral support ...i don't have enough money to contribute it

p.s. change the poll options, please, i do contribute, and i do think i should, but i just don't contribute money
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Alien Orifice · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:27 am Post subject:

I use quite a bit of OSS software for both professional and personal use and because I lack the time ( and in some cases, knowledge ) to contribute via code, I give my tax return every year. It varies but usually come out around $300. I spread it around to various causes, some not even software-related ( in the program sense anyway ), such as http://eff.org.
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Jeff Binder · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:36 am Post subject:

I donate a little to the FSF, which I suppose counts. GNU isn't really Open Source, but it's in that vein.
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Anacific · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 4:55 am Post subject:

I'm broke so I contribute only by reporting bugs and helping others out if I can.
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Lovechild · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:53 am Post subject:

I give when I can afford it - it's normally 50-100 $ a year but spread like wildfire - mostly like, this is a cool project, here's a 5-10 spot to show the author(s) that I liked his/her work. I also have an arrangement setup when I ship distros around the world and instead of taking the few bucks for myself I ask people to donate to Gentoo the amount of money they owe me plus what ever they can spare.

I feel bad though, I should give more - especially to the EFF, I haven't even donated to them this year.

I also donate time and skills to various projects writting documentation, writting code, reporting and confirming bugreports that type of stuff.

puggy · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:26 pm Post subject:

I'd give some if I had any. :-D

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idl · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:41 pm Post subject:

puggy · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:54 pm Post subject:

catphish · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 33

I was wondering if there was a charity that could collect small quantities of money from people and distribute it fairly to open source organisations as they see fit. That would make donation easier if you wanted to benifit the community as a whole but cant afford much.

Malnix · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 8

I contribute around 50 bux a year in donations 5 bux here and there to programs i enjoy
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