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 live by rule “if everyone gave me 1 euro…” so I donate 1 euro/month to projects I use often (but I send actually 12/year to spare the devs some trx costs) and 1 euro/year to projects that I use sometimes (again I send 5 Eur/5 years actually). I use almost only open source and I haven’t yet paid everyone. I also recently made an open source application where I didn’t setup any donations channel, I simply like doing it… Maybe in the future if I have more work on it, but not now…
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. 🥲
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…
Look on a price comparison site. Most of the bill increases are due to the loyalty tax.
huh?
Companies always give their best deals to new customers. You are likely paying way higher than market rate for your bills.
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.
The annual KDE reminder works on me. I also donate yearly to thunderbird and other random foss projects that are important to me like pihole. I pay for bitwarden to support them while keeping an instance of vaultwarden running as backup.
The other thing I try to do in lieu of donating is turning on metrics for applications I use daily when the option is there and whitelisting those domains in pihole.
Not as much as I should be tbh.
Change that, it’s the only way there projects will survive.
Don’t have anything recurring. More like random $10-20 thrown here and there. It’d probably be more often if it was all more integrated/streamlined. Pretty much the hyped up Flathub payments feature someday. I’d do that more often than patreon/opencollective/etc. I’ve had a patreon sub for a few projects over the years
When ive used a project for a while and i have extra cash I usually do a 20$ donation. Ive been low on money last year so I only donated to a few of the projects, listenbrainz and Lemmy.
Ideally I want to donate a small amount yearly to all the projects I use.
For the free programs I use, I have a total of around 100$ to give every year. The more programs or projects I want to support, the less there is for each. Otherwise, I’d just become poorer and poorer.
For paid pograms and services, I’m also trying to not go for the cheapest but the ethically better ones.
I also have a 2 patreons to support creators who speak about FOSS.
I think you don’t have to give much, but you should always try to give something every year.
Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.
I donate 5 to 10 aud every 6 months or so for connect for lemmy since i use it every day
One time donations of $5 only, I am poor
Every month about 10-20 euro, but nothing recurring. I setup a list of my open source tools and I try to one at a time donate to each one. But its a slow process and feels too less, but I don’t want to do recurring ones, though I know it would be the best for the projects.
$10 a month and sporadic donations to projects I believe are making a difference
About 20-30 euros each month. I Always budget 30 and give a bit more to tools I use regurarily and disperse the remainder on projects I tried, liked and felt like I wanted to donate to that month.
