If you had $5,000 to donate to your favourite open-source projects, which one would they be?

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

If you had $5,000 to donate to your favourite open-source projects, which one would they be?

Shaded Cosmos · 2 years ago

Godot!

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Second for godot!

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

2004Scape.org or Godot (that’s already been mentioned though)

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Probably some others after more thought… but first off, to:

Trisquel GNU/Linux

LibreOffice

VLC

GIMP

Audacity

Mixxx

Xiph.org (Ogg/Theora)

Aard2

7-Zip

wget

Vim

uBlock Origin

LineageOS

Blender Studio Films (open films)

Pepper & Carrot (webcomic)

Celestia

Minetest

Lichess

0ad

a Kendrick fan · 2 years ago

Thanks for talking about pepper and carrot. It’s so great to see something so good be free.

Gianni R · 2 years ago

Waterfox, CalyxOS, Signal, the JPEG-XL team, GNOME

@[email protected] · edit-2 2 years ago

Just FYI, Signal (Open Whisper Systems) is not FOSS-friendly. The server-side software is not open source, they refuse to federate with other Signal implementations, and they are unfriendly to forks. See:

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

I recommend using Molly instead if you need to communicate with Signal users. Note, the Molly-FOSS flavor excludes proprietary Google libraries entirely.

If you are interested in trying an alternative that is unrelated to Signal, I suggest looking at SimpleX Chat.