<div dir="ltr">you know, we al benefit so much from FOSS. we really should think of making a donation. we should make a donation even if we can only afford to give a dollar or two. 1 dollar is 100% more than nothing! or is it infinitely more?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I never realized all the work that goes into maintaining a distribution until I considered all of the software that has to work together and how everything needs to be checked out to make sure it doesn't break something so we might want to consider making a donation to your favorite distro.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:32 AM, der.hans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PLUGd@lufthans.com" target="_blank">PLUGd@lufthans.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">moin moin,<br>
<br>
last month I led a discussion on how to sanitize electronics before<br>
donating them.<span class=""><br>
<br>
The end of the year is also a good time to donate money to the projects that<br>
have helped us during the year.<br>
<br></span>
We don't buy Firefox, our favorite distro or any other Free Software that<br>
we use. Many projects have ways for us to donate money. Some will sell<br>
support contracts.<span class=""><br>
<br>
What projects are indispensable for you?<br>
<br></span>
This year PLUG has had presentations on projects such as GIMP, Blender,<br>
KeePassX, ZFS, Firefox, Privoxy, Sensu, WireShark, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, bash,<br>
and Salt Stack.<br>
<br>
Many non-profits help us by supporting FOSS, Open Standards and online<br>
privacy. Plus, there are all those Free Software projects that benefit us.<br>
<br>
FSF, Ada Initiative, Software Freedom Conservancy, Software Freedom Law<br>
Center, EPIC, Creative Commons, Mozilla and EFF to name just a few<br>
non-profits :).<br>
<br>
debian, LibreOffice, Jenkins, and several others can receive onations<br>
dthrough Software in the Public Interest.<br>
<br>
libbraille ( for braille readers ), Evergreen ( integrated library system<br>
), Inkscape, BusyBox, Sugar Labs, Wine, Samba and many others can receive<br>
donations through the Software Freedom Conservancy.<br>
<br>
Mozilla makes it easy to give money to developers for addons such as<br>
NoScript and FoxyProxy.<br>
<br>
ciao,<br>
<br>
der.hans<span><font color="#888888"><span class=""><br>
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