Ask HN: Big list of open source projects looking for donations?

Posted by wslh on Thursday April 14, 2016 @08:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is there a concise list of open source projects looking for donations? I really think donating to open source projects you care about should be closer to a subscription model than a sporadic/rare event. There should be a facilitation process to quickly find recipients individually or by groups.

Also, new donating models can be studied. For example, a project can distribute part of the donations to their code dependencies.

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Re:Ask HN: Big list of open source projects looking for dona... by fundamental on Thursday April 14, 2016 @09:00AM (#11496250)

You might be interested in https://snowdrift.coop/ Their site/model is still evolving, but they've done some pretty good research on what other options there are already out there https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/othercrowdfunding .

As per the original question I don't think there is any such list of projects seeking donations and if there was one I doubt it would be concise. If you're personally interested in donating to a project via a subscription it shouldn't be that difficult to contact the maintainer to see if they'd be interested in receiving those donations and if they could setup some service to receive subscriptions.

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Re:Ask HN: Big list of open source projects looking for dona... by iamtrying on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:24AM (#11502380)

Please donate existing projects or hire C++, C, Python developers to contribute to the open-source community and pay the developers. There are tons of project they need either donation or developers which get paid for small amounts.

1 - FFMpeg for Windows to become more friendly 2 - NodeJS for Windows to become more easy and friendly so that we can stop using fooling us by moving to random programming languages : Java, C#, D, Go etc etc

3 - Please invest on TWAIN, ISIS, SANE protocol to be Freely available in NodeJS

4 - Please invest on rfc-turn servers 5 - Please invest VLC. To make for windows operating system to have screen-capture and then make that captured screen to be available as virtual webcam source. Like Manycam

6 - Please invest for Node-WebKit, to make it for windows bulletproof hackers browser.

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