If you had $5,000 to donate to your favourite open-source projects, which one would they be?

Probably 100% Mozilla.

The free and open web is so in danger right now.

1k to NixOS, (my perfect distro)

500 to NewPipe (dont know what I would do without them)

500 to Bitwarden (for hosting my passwords),

500 to XFCE (for the Wayland transition),

500 to Neovim (my text editor of choice),

500 for Aurora Store (essential for all Custom ROM users, to support them in these difficult times),

500 for the core Lemmy project,

500 for my instance's maintainers,

and last, but definitely not least:

500 for The Everything Project: A project which aims to provide a unified way to access various platforms and services including but not limited to Lemmy and other Fediverse platforms, Reddit, and more. (no, I'm not a contributor or maintainer, but if you want to be, or just want to find out more: https://github.com/everything-gripe )

Godot!

uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don't take donations. So my list would roughly contain:

• Organic Maps
• Thunderbird
• Internet Archive
• Codeberg

I'd like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it's not possible to only support Firefox development.

For example:

Ublock Origin

SponsorBlock

Fdoid

OpenStreetMap

Blender

Wikipedia

Matrix

Newpipe

Pihole

Mastodon

Darktable

Krita

Gimp

Debian and mozilla.

Gimp or libre office.

GrapheneOS

Kdenlive (my video editor, already donate them $40/yr)

Krita (image editing program I occasionally use)

Linux Lite (my first distro)

Lemmy (obvious)

uBlock origin (obvious)

Internet archive (to preserve what we had)

EFF (to fight against corporations trying to bend the laws in their favor)

Some Apps I've used from F-droid

KDE, Lemmy, Mozilla, Eclipse, and openSUSE. £1000 each.

Lemmy, Mastodon, Mozilla (Firefox), MuseScore (music notation), VLC

No one mentioned LibreOffice and LibreWolf . They deserve all support

mastodon (& tusky) lemmy (& thunder) helix editor lapce forgejo bitwarden alacritty linux kernel ublock origin signal

That's off the top of my head. I think I might also print a bunch of stickers promoting the fediverse.

Desktop:

Debian.
xfce.
Firefox.
Thunderbird.
mpv.

Android:
Tachiyomi. Newpipe.
K-9 mail.
Fennec.
F-droid.
Simple app suite.

Organic Maps and F-Droid

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I recently donated to immich. That project created a product that allows me to take back ownership over my photographs and no longer am I dependent on Google for my memories.

I've already done a small donation to Pihole because I'm broke. If I had 5k to donate, that money would go to them again.

1000 each to jellyfin, OBSProject, Linux Mint, Calibre, and Krita

PeerTube

Sponsorblock

Joplin. End-to-end-encrypted, markdown-formatted note-taking app that you can either sync using the cloud, Syncthing, or use entirely offline.

Kiwix since it allows accessing some services offline (Wikipedia, iFixit, StackOverflow) where Internet cannot be taken for granted. You can host a small Kiwix server than can be accessed as a local hotspot and browser whatever packages were downloaded into it.

Newpipe

Artix Linux (my personal distro)

Graphene OS (my phone)

NeoVim (my text editor)

LibreWolf (my browser)

ublockOrigin (my God)

Honorable mention: OpenStreetMaps

I buy computers from System76; does that count?

• ReactOS (to transition towards x86_64)
• XFCE
• Eclipse
• GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
• Krita
• RawTherapee
• Fornjot (the CAD written in Rust)

Not my favourite but the most important: A proper fully integrated clinical information system. Currently all OSS are lacking behind seriously and especially the developing world but also rich countries would benefit so much from a proper system. But sadly even that amount wouldn't cut it.

This is a topic that really needs money to safe lifes and safe money for everyone.

Probably some others after more thought... but first off, to:

Trisquel GNU/Linux

LibreOffice

VLC

GIMP

Audacity

Mixxx

Xiph.org (Ogg/Theora)

Aard2

7-Zip

wget

Vim

uBlock Origin

LineageOS

Blender Studio Films (open films)

Pepper & Carrot (webcomic)

Celestia

Minetest

Lichess

0ad

Gimp

Sponsorblock

Revanced Manager

Infinity for reddit

F-Droid

Wikipedia

Blender

New pipe

Mastodon

Gimp

KDE

Lemmy

Minetest

Lichess

Codeberg

Thunderbird

Internet Archive

XLD, Handbrake, Yattee, EmuDeck, IINA, and also Invidious like yourself :)

Edit: I would also like to add Pock!

• postmarketOS and the people porting Linux to phones
• Panfrost devs
• Nouveau/NVK
• Yuzu (to get better Intel Arc support on Linux)
• Libraries I use in OpenRGB

I already donate to one of the libraries I use on GitHub sponsors, also the box86 developer and a few others. I am donating to the UVTools developer as it was cheaper than paying for the shitty proprietary software subscription for my resin printer. I've donated to pmOS in the past as well as Debian and Arch.

Joplin and Lemmy.

Joplin finally freed me from dealing with the likes of Evernote ever again.

Loads of good choices here, i would like to add calibre and darktable.

The Tor project, Libre Office, Signal, Matrix.org, NixOS, Fedora

Emacs/Doom Emacs, Linux foundation, VLC, Latex/Tikz, KeePassXC, LibreOffice.

Qutebrowser as I use it daily, and it is by far the best browser for me.

Give everything to NixOS

KiCad, FreeCAD, GIMP, Inkscape, & LibreOffice.

A lot of the options listed in this thread are good choices - but most are big projects that get a fair amount of financial attention as it is (though very rarely enough to actually support the devs).

If I had $5k to donate to a project, I'd choose some of the really small FOSS projects that I use heavily, like AudiobookShelf

Archlinux + EndeavourOS

Lemmy Devs + Instance admin

Gnome

Voyager

Wine

Mangohud

Ublock origin

Pipewire

Syncthing. With godot as a close second.

Definitely this order:

• FreeCAD

• KiCAD

• Jellyfin

• Bazarr

• Immich

• Prusaslicer

• Homeassistant

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FreeCAD

For me, I would definitely put the money into the open medical science stuff going on, like projects that are working towards open source insulin production and pumps and stuff. A close relative is diabetic (T1), and the things he buys just to stay alive are not cheap, and I would want that to change. The work those people are doing is extremely important, since insulin production is currently a very complex process and it takes significant time. Large Pharma companies have labs dedicated to doing it and they've streamlined the more traditional ways of doing it, which, due to the complexity, those methods have a very high (financial) barrier to entry, which keeps other, more generic labs from producing the substance needed for diabetics to live.

I'm talking about liquid insulin.

The FOSS push on this is focused on making a simpler method of production, and delivery of the insulin, giving third party and generic drug manufacturers an alternative to the high-cost of setting up a manufacturing line for insulin, and hopefully driving costs down.

They're also working on delivery systems, aka insulin pumps, that are FOSS. The problem there will be regulatory approval; the medical community is fairly strict when it comes to this stuff.... In any case, as nice as many things mentioned here are, I always feel that those guys always need help.

Barrier KDE NeoVim

Half to debian, half to i3wm.

@nutbutter

Four of many possibilities:

Anki
Feeder
Joplin
New Pipe

• SuperSlicer
• klipper

Easily the surface-linux kernel project, that level of dedication is incredible and without I wouldn't have my favorite laptop running linux right now.

And probably all of KDE's various developers if possible, since I both love the actual desktop environment and all the various tools they provide (like Elisa, Kdenlive, and KDE Connect).

I'd also donate to ReactOS. Nobody uses that (me included) but I see a lot of effort, I'd donate to them

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Definitely Blender

• FreeCAD
• Inkscape
• The free software foundation

They would be the ones I've been using for long: Inkscape GIMP xcfe gnome Mx linux Libreoffice Handbrake Rawtherapee Krita Easytag VLC Rhythmbox

There are more. I just donate some bucks now and then but I would like to help them all with more.

GrapheneOS. But hard to say because anything that gives us a choice besides either Apple or Google or Facebook, etc, we desperately need.

Waterfox, CalyxOS, Signal, the JPEG-XL team, GNOME

FreeBSD

AROS

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I'd donate it to one or more open source projects that make the most positive impact in society

Kdenlive

FlorisBoard

NetBSD

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Tybalt

Beehaw, megalodon and firefish

2004Scape.org or Godot (that’s already been mentioned though)

GIMP for sure.

Slackware!!!!

For example: Ublock Origin [SponsorBlock Fdoid](https://f-droid.org/) OpenStreetMap Blender Wikipedia Matrix [Newpipe Pihole](https://pi-hole.net/) Mastodon Darktable Krita Gimp

Minetest maybe. Microsoft is making some bad choices for minecraft and I'd like to see more love for its open source competitor.

Did you link your own Invidious instance? It says there's only 1 user.

Godot Barotruma Blender

Kbin, Mastodon, Signal, CryptPad, Bitwarden Libre Office, Paint.NET, OpenShot, Audacity, F-Droid