donations at end of year

[Michael Havens]

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.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:32 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:

> moin moin,
>
> last month I led a discussion on how to sanitize electronics before
> donating them.
>
> The end of the year is also a good time to donate money to the projects
> that
> have helped us during the year.
>
> We don't buy Firefox, our favorite distro or any other Free Software that
> we use. Many projects have ways for us to donate money. Some will sell
> support contracts.
>
> What projects are indispensable for you?
>
> This year PLUG has had presentations on projects such as GIMP, Blender,
> KeePassX, ZFS, Firefox, Privoxy, Sensu, WireShark, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, bash,
> and Salt Stack.
>
> Many non-profits help us by supporting FOSS, Open Standards and online
> privacy. Plus, there are all those Free Software projects that benefit us.
>
> FSF, Ada Initiative, Software Freedom Conservancy, Software Freedom Law
> Center, EPIC, Creative Commons, Mozilla and EFF to name just a few
> non-profits :).
>
> debian, LibreOffice, Jenkins, and several others can receive onations
> dthrough Software in the Public Interest.
>
> libbraille ( for braille readers ), Evergreen ( integrated library system
> ), Inkscape, BusyBox, Sugar Labs, Wine, Samba and many others can receive
> donations through the Software Freedom Conservancy.
>
> Mozilla makes it easy to give money to developers for addons such as
> NoScript and FoxyProxy.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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