Intel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation
Idea for anyone who wants to make it: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.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.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.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.