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 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 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.
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.
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.
Not as much as I should be tbh.
Change that, it’s the only way there projects will survive.
1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.
hoping to figure that out this year, once I do an overhaul of what I’m using and figuring out
just know that half of my budget for this will come from what I was previously spending on mega corp subscriptions (not much, but more than I am now). the other half will be based on its value to me
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. 🥲
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.
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.
Nothing because I literally have no money
I don’t have “literally no money” but yeah I’m in the same boat. Used to donate but with the price of everything going up the last couple of years, it’s drained any and all discretionary spending…
I like the little badge I get for being a donar on Signal. Other than that, my default is $5/mo or whatever the site’s recommended amount is.
