This isn’t the first time the topic of donating to open source projects has come up. I think it would be great to see a new segment that details one or more important open source projects, either established or promising, that accepts donations.

I myself have only very recently actually gone through with donating to teams like Mozilla and Wikipedia. I understand that many people who haven’t ever donated to anything and/or are too new to Linux to confidently choose where their money goes are much less likely to contribute. It’s easy to think “I don’t know if five bucks is really going to help much so I’m not going to put the time in to find out how to send it”.

A segment that explains how a project like OBS, Firefox, Blender, and others have been and will be a benefit to the Linux ecosystem, how donated money might be transformed into meaningful developments, and exactly how to donate to the project(s) would be very helpful for people like my past self. Perhaps a few opinions about how large of a donation the DLN crew thinks a project is worth would be fun too, and help people understand that donations can be very affordable yet still meaningful to the project.

Thanks for the amazing podcast, guys. It’s my favorite of over a dozen on my list. Keep on keeping on, preferably with good posture (I recommend using a stool for this).

^ would pay for video and depending how it goes, possibly also audio.