I've only been doing it for a couple months. Still need some time before people hopefully convert from the free tier. Good traffic but ROI is not great yet. But with SaaS, a few good conversions can pay for everything pretty quickly so I'm going to stick it out for a bit.
There's a saying in advertising that someone has to see a thing 8 times from different sources before they buy it. I don't know how scientifically accurate it is, but it reflects my behavior.
I don't donate at all. However, I'm just answering to question whether you're going to get a representative distribution of answers from both categories.
A few hundred bucks every month from my personal funds to some specific projects via GitHub sponsorships + some patreons. Been doing this for a while and plan to continue.
Yep, I donate a little bit to the GrapheneOS project. It's nothing given how much I benefit from it and how much money I save versus being in the Apple ecosystem like I used to be.
There used to be a way to give to the FreeBSD Foundation when you bought something on Humble Bundle too, but I haven’t bought anything via Humble Bundle for a good while and last time I tried to give money to FreeBSD Foundation that way I couldn’t figure out how to do it again.
I also used the fundraiser feature on Facebook one time on my birthday and posted that for my birthday I wished that people help give money to the FreeBSD Foundation, because FreeBSD means a lot to me. I also described FreeBSD a bit in the post and why I wanted to do this fundraiser. So a couple of friends and family members contributed to this fundraiser of mine. It was a very small scale thing, but it was nice to do this and I appreciated that those friends and family members helped me donate a bit of money for a project that I find important.
I'll pay for shareware or donate to freeware authors but that's about it. I think the only open source software I use regularly is Chrome and I pay for that with my soul.
I do! I'm sponsoring this effort to catch linux trackpad software up to mac standards. Not affiliated with them in any other way, was simply blown away by a friends magic pad, right about the same time this project started.
https://github.com/gitclear/libinput
edit: I also like to buy merch from OSS affiliated companies. e.g. mozilla hoodie, Neo4j shirt etc.
Donated to Signal and I intend to donate again to other projects as soon as I can. Unfortunately I'm not working so it's not that easy, but I'm doing my part to report bugs for every software I use, even using beta versions.
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To Mozilla, because I am happy Firefox user and want it to stay competitive.
To Whisper system, because I love Signal and want everyone to use it.
To Wikimedia, because I use Wikipedia everyday.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
There used to be a way to give to the FreeBSD Foundation when you bought something on Humble Bundle too, but I haven’t bought anything via Humble Bundle for a good while and last time I tried to give money to FreeBSD Foundation that way I couldn’t figure out how to do it again.
I also used the fundraiser feature on Facebook one time on my birthday and posted that for my birthday I wished that people help give money to the FreeBSD Foundation, because FreeBSD means a lot to me. I also described FreeBSD a bit in the post and why I wanted to do this fundraiser. So a couple of friends and family members contributed to this fundraiser of mine. It was a very small scale thing, but it was nice to do this and I appreciated that those friends and family members helped me donate a bit of money for a project that I find important.
edit: I also like to buy merch from OSS affiliated companies. e.g. mozilla hoodie, Neo4j shirt etc.
I also came across another dev on this: https://github.com/JoseExposito