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.
Not as much as I should be tbh.
Change that, it’s the only way there projects will survive.
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.)
I donate 100€ to KDE every year. I consider it my “windows license”, since it was the DE that allowed me to escape from windows 7 years ago.
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 started to donate once a year to my Linux os and apps I like. I also need to set up a small monthly for apps I like. If we don’t show support when we can we will lose the some great projects.
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.
1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.
Some years I donate nothing. Other years it’s about 50 euro… Depend on a lot of things. I believe in giving to the free software, because that makes it better, and since I’m a user, that’s great - and I like to keep it running.
