Yearly budget of $200 for any apps I constantly use. I split the amount between the apps. Donate more if I have extra funds.

Some years I donate nothing. Other years it’s about 50 euro… Depend on a lot of things. I believe in giving to the free software, because that makes it better, and since I’m a user, that’s great - and I like to keep it running.

None, I’m unemployed and don’t have the money to spare :3

When I still had my last job I would donate really any time I thought about it, around 5-10$ a time. Still not really enough, but it was part time minimum wage.

Somewhere between $10 and $50 per transaction. Its not every month, but just randomly throughout the year depending on what I have.

1$/month to every project I frequently use via Liberapay.

Not as much as I should be tbh.

I started to donate once a year to my Linux os and apps I like. I also need to set up a small monthly for apps I like. If we don’t show support when we can we will lose the some great projects.

$10 a month and sporadic donations to projects I believe are making a difference

Depends on the project and the kind of utility I get from it. Up to $20 USD typically, but I’ve donated more for specific cases.

I donate to Signal. I intend to increase my contributions to other open source (Linux) projects this year though. I expect them to need it more than ever soon.

Don’t have anything recurring. More like random $10-20 thrown here and there. It’d probably be more often if it was all more integrated/streamlined. Pretty much the hyped up Flathub payments feature someday. I’d do that more often than patreon/opencollective/etc. I’ve had a patreon sub for a few projects over the years

Infrequently. Sometimes like 5 euros. Could do more but I am not fully reliant on open source. I wish ublock origin accepted donations though.

What I will say is that if you donate small amounts, saving up is better if possible. I know some charities I donate to mentioned transaction charges could be 1 or 2 euros per transaction. So donating a low amount could really eat into your donation.

It’s not much but I believe if everyone is doing their part we succeed in the long run

I agree completely with this. I only donate a token amount of ~2 EUR per year to some projects: it won’t do anything by itself, yet still, if everyone did the same, it would be really impactful.

For a few projects that are most important to me, I donate up to ~15 EUR per month. It’s both a lot of money, and also not a lot at the same time. By itself, it still has a tiny impact, but it is a decent monthly expense, especially when donating to a few projects.

To me it really highlights that we can’t help fund anything by ourselves. After donating some amount yourself, the next best thing you can do is encourage other people to donate too!

There’s a really cool project called Snowdrift that tries to harness that dynamic. They came up with a concept called “crowdmatching”, where everyone’s donation is linked to the number of people donating to the project (up to a cap).

Although progress on that project is quite slow, I really hope to see it succeed some day, as I think it really thoughtfully and neatly manages to coordinate people to band together to fund projects, and make a real difference as a group.

I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.

Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲

I haven’t yet donated, because u want an easy and privacy minded way to donate. I’m not fan of crypto, because I still don’t understand how. How do you donate and still have privacy? Like I don’t want the bank or state to know what I support…