Donation bragging thread (Support free software!)

[olejorgen]

Intro: (suggest a better intro and/or additions)

I was curious of what financial situation FSF was in and I found this: http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2006/042/888/2006-042888848-02f84ecd-9.pdf (https://www.fsf.org/about)

At page 1 you can see that FSF had a net-income of about $800,000, and have about $900,000 in assets.

Looking at ubuntuforums.org:
Members: 702,627
Active members: 72,215

So just a bit more than $1 per member or $10 per active member and we have *doubled* FSF income/assets!

I'm not saying that everyone should neccessarily donate to FSF. It was mostly to illustrate how little that actually can make a impact.

Lets make this a bragging thread for donors. Post your donation (amount and/or project)

This thread will consentrate on financially contributions. This is in no way superior over doing work for free. I'd say that's probably more valuable in most cases :)

Donation links:
Distros:

Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/community/donations)
Debian (http://www.debian.org/donations) (they direct you to spi)

Funds:

Free software foundation (GNU) (https://www.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/)
Linuxfund (http://www.linuxfund.org/donate/)
SPI (http://www.spi-inc.org/)
PubSoft (http://www.pubsoft.org/)
GNU herds (http://gnuherds.org/)
Software Freedom Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/)
Open media now! (http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32) (gnash)

Projects:
Most projects have a quite visible donation link on their homepage.

Freenet (http://freenetproject.org/donate.html)
Wine (http://www.winehq.org/site/contributing) (you could also buy a Crossover licence (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/))
Open Office (http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html)
Gnome (http://www.gnome.org/friends/)
KDE (http://www.kde.org/support/support.php)
GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/donating/)
KOffice (http://www.koffice.org/support/)
Qalculate! (http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/donations.html)
Mozilla Foundation (http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html) (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.)
KDE Web Development (http://kdewebdev.org/donate.php) (Quanta Plus, Kommander, Kallery, etc)
Thunar (http://thunar.xfce.org/contribute.html)
KMyMoney (http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-devel.html)
GnuCash (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development#Money)
jGnash (http://jgnash.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Contributing) (not gnash)
Wireless driver for Rt2x00 based cards (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rt2x00Wiki:Site_support)
Madwifi (http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Donations/HowToDonate) Drivers for wireless cards based on Atheros

Other ways to contribute (financially):
If you don't want/can make a direct donation it still is a few options:

If you live in USA or Canada you can get the Linux credit card (http://www.linuxfund.org/cards/)
Buy stuff through "sponsor" links. Please post more of these

Wine: Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/winehq), CDnow (http://www.cdnow.com/from=sr-1093221). (Confirm these links here) (http://www.winehq.org/site/contributing)

UK Free Software Network (http://www.ukfsn.org/finance.html) (UK ISP) use their profit to support free software. So if you live in UK change now :)


Post more projects/ideas and I'll fill them in here.
More projects (donation links) (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3852698&postcount=22)

Most of these projects accept donations through paypal. Please note that you don't need a paypal account to use those links. Paypal let you pay with a creditcard if you don't have a account.

List of Free Software Contributing Companies & Institutions (http://wikicompany.org/fs/companies.html)

[olejorgen]

I'll start:

\donation FSF: $50
\donation Crossover license: $39.95
\donation Wine: $50.00

To make it easy to make a grand total, prefix your "donation line" the way i did. It's also easiest if everyone post in dollars, but no requirement of course.

[CJ Master]

Well I've never donated...... In the financial sense.

However I have helped with several ibex language issues in german and learning how I can program to help gnome.

Does that count? :P

[jimbob]

\Donation $25.00 to Canonical (Ubuntu) on 10/20/08.

I try to donate at least once a year and I am retired living on a fixed income.

The excitement of a new release always makes me appreciate what we have here so that we don't ever have to suffer under the yoke of $MS oppression.

[Sporkman]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4676981&postcount=49

8)

(plus I plug Ubuntu on my website)

[olejorgen]

Well I've never donated...... In the financial sense.

However I have helped with several ibex language issues in german and learning how I can program to help gnome.

Does that count? :P

Sure it does, and that's probably in many cases better support too :) (ultimatly someone has to do the work)

Sporkman: post your donation here so we can egotrip with totals. First goal $1000 :)

[dtsat]

I donate to the FSF yearly. Last donation was in September, for $20. I'm not rich, but I do appreciate giving back what I can \\:D/

[olejorgen]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4145586&postcount=39

If someone would write a nice new post about donation, opensource, projects + the donation links, we could properly sticky it.

I think that is a good idea. Help me make that post.

It's so many things in life that requires very litte effort but could help quite a bit. As an example: I used disposable cups (at my university) for a long time until a campain selling "environmental cups" started. Now I carry that cup in my bag all the time and haven't used a disposable cup since.

[Sporkman]

Sporkman: post your donation here so we can egotrip with totals. First goal $1000 :)

$60 -> Ubuntu

-Sporkman

:)

Hey, $60 is cheaper than a copy of Windows, plus I've installed Ubuntu on a bunch of computers, several times over. A modest contribution, far less than the worth it has provided.

[Martiini]

imagine how much better ubuntu would be .. if EVERY user contributed 10 euro (dollar .. whatever)

[daverich]

we use ukfsn as our isp, who I believe contribute from their profits.

Kind regards

Dave Rich

[tadcan]

70 euro to mandrake (back in the day)
20 euro to Haiku