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Debian.
The "OG" of linux distros that is still around and very active now after ~30 years, but most of all, its run entirely by the community. Project leaders are elected by contributors, there is no company backing them and no company influencing the project.
JellyFin is a great one. They’re needing the support due to a lack of devs.
Signal
Home assistant
Vaultwarden
The last couple of years I have been donating to Gluetun.
The dev is very responsive to feature requests, and I don't know how I would get along without it now.
Jellyfin and neovim!
Coolify, amazing project!
Trilium Notes!
FreeBSD & GrapheneOS
Opnsense. Switched to it right after the whole pfSense plus fiasco.
Just donated to OctoPrint! Use it all the time and it's been rock solid for years!
Vaultwarden, Wikipedia, Vox Pupuli (Puppet)
(Bu not specifically this time of the year, it's a monthly small amount)
Jellyfin Immich Paperless-ngx
What I do is take my yearly donation budget and divide it up to all of the projects (don't forget about those libraries, dependencies, etc)
I involuntary donated all of my tax money to my government. Sadly got not much left. I already gave something to signal. Maybe I will give something neovim, but I first have to get some Christmas presents.
Not a software project, but eff.org. For software, signal.org.
I've also just subscribed to simplelogin premium and i consider it a pseudo donation too since it does have a huge impact on my email management.
Immich and Planka (if I can find a way)
Probably iTerm2. Use it everyday.
I do automatic monthly donations to the Frigate project. It's provided a ton of value so me, so I support the project on an ongoing basis through a gitbub sponsorship: https://github.com/sponsors/blakeblackshear
Gotten so much use out of immich this year, I started sponsoring monthly
I'll be donating to Termux. I think its an exceptional idea with an amazing execution.
Django project. I use it at my startup.
I usually take $100 and find 10 projects I used that year. But EFF, tor, tails, and qubes-os are always on the repeat donation list.
Debian & Immich
None.
wish i could afford to if i had the money debian, openwrt and pterodactyl would be the main ones ~~use them the most~~
changedetection.io just donated to the awesome crew over at ntfy.sh
having those kinds of notifications is a key part for our software to achieve what it does.
Codeberg
None, because I'm a developer of a self-hosted project. So I figure I contribute enough....😁
Donating?
Buttercup.pw
Audiobookshelf would be the primary donation, as I've had thousands of hours of usage from it... I use it everywhere and all the time, when I'm working, travelling or just relaxing. In addition, I've often liked the idea of sponsoring a couple of features (A list-view, and folder-structure browsing)
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FreeBSD
Home Assistant, evcc
My HumbleBundle donations go to the EFF, which is my indirect way of supporting Let's Encrypt. I used to support the Internet Archive before they went political (and, consequently, to shit).
Kimai - this is one system which has helped me the most last year!
Runtipi
None. If you wanted paid you would've charged for it.
Librephotos. The best google photos alternative.
Monetarily - I already support Home Assistant through Nabu Casa. .. donate to PiHole on a non-scheduled basis, a couple of times a year. .. send in an annual to wikipedia.
I donate my time to Apache Software Foundation.
Joplin & joplin Firefox plugin, Jellyfin, VLC, Keepassium, KeepassXC, Syncthing, lutris, Homeassistant, Okular, KDE, KDE Connect, Kubuntu
I just donated to freefilesync. I donate randomly when I feel though.
Fasten
Contribute monthly to Arch, Gnome, & LibreOffice.
Made a one-time donation to Remmina.
Signal
I've donated to Immich several times. So impressed by their work.
Reactive Resume https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume
Disclaimer: I maintain the project :)