Our 2016 Open Source Donations
Donating to open-source seems like such a good use of charity money. I never give to charity because it always seems so abstract, or there might be better ways to solve the problem; with open source people are usually laboring over it with no recognition, and even a little seems like it has such high marginal benefit.<p>I'm in-between jobs right now(occupied with a side project), but at some point I'd really like to fund feature development on some open source projects:<p>* GNUCash has a solid heart, but has some usability issues that make it a pain to use in practice.<p>* Freenet last I checked had only 1 fulltime developer. And he's probably taking a serious cut to market salary to work on it.<p>* GHC could stand to have some performance optimization done on the compiler.<p>* Inkscape or GIMP are handy to have around. Inkscape even has a page describing how you can host a fundraiser for targeted feature development, which is very rare for open-source.<p>* I don't know that TOR needs much software help, but I wouldn't mind funding some exit nodes. It'd be nice if you could buy a locked-down black-box exit node that you could plug into your wall or something, that was guaranteed not to incriminate you. Maybe outside the scope of this, though.<p>* Everyone has a little app or site they use where a few people are working without much benefit to maintain something you use all the time.<p>Is there a good list of needy open-source software?