Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source?

Re:Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source? by andrefuchs on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:54AM (#22326487)

How about using GitHub Sponsors, OpenCollective or Patreon?

https://github.com/sponsors https://opencollective.com https://www.patreon.com

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Re:Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source? by schafele on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:23AM (#22326758)

thanks andrefuchs for the links, I wasn't aware of OpenCollective. If I get it correctly I still have to manually find all collectives that I want to support and send them money. So if I want to support 100 projects and I'll have to do 100 transactions?

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Re:Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source? by jermaustin1 on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:57AM (#22327061)

Donating to 100 projects will be hard to manage, and with only $1000, it would be better to give that to 2-5 projects at most, since $10 would barely cover a month of hosting.

It is noble to want to help 100 projects, but with limited funds, it would go further on only a couple projects. Think, new laptop, a few months of their CI/CD service, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source? by lathiat on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:15AM (#22334388)

Also Tidelift which specialises in supporting maintainers of your stack: https://tidelift.com/about/lifter

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Re:Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source? by girzel on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:27PM (#22331905)

There's also Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/

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