Intel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation
Idea for anyone who wants to make it:<p>Make a website where any person or company can donate a fixed amount (one-time, periodically) that gets donated to open source. The website integrates with or links to as many open source projects as possible. Perhaps the website donates to each project once a month, pooling all the money together, to keep from having lots of transaction fees.<p>To be more advanced, write a tool that scans all code bases and automatically tells you what open source products you use. So if I work for a company, I run the tool against all of our repositories, it determines which products we use, and it syncs with the website. Then, say we donate $100 a month, it gets split between all of them automatically in some sort of proportion.<p>Then github open source projects can sign up with the website and become automatically tracked with the tool, so if someone or a company uses them they can get paid.<p>I simply do not have the time to pursue this, but if I had the time I would. I believe it will vastly improve the open source community and help finance it.