donations at end of year

[Michael Havens]

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?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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