how much do you donate to projects?
how much do you donate to projects?
As share of income? In form of time?
how much do you donate to projects?
As share of income? In form of time?
$5 or $10 once per project, or once a year if I remember. I can't afford to have subscriptions. I only try to fix bugs if I can.
If/when I have money to spare, I share that money by a function of how much I use a piece of software, and how much the project needs funding (so a combination of costs vs income). So generally the projects I donate most to are the ones I use daily, and also are either more obscure or more expensive to maintain.
Just the occasional bug report. I don't have more to spare. Most I have ever done was to give code for a semi-big new feature back. I had developed it for work and was glad that I got permission to publish the code. Especially when someone fixed a bug in it.
I also contributed to PHP. That's the biggest project with my contribution. I also tried to make something for OpenSUSE's zypper but thanks to Long COVID lack the energy and brain power.
Not enough.
15$/month, I'd donate more, but I'm poor
So and so. The projects I like a lot and heavily use I give 5€ a month, but there are very few. That would also be the usual member fee for instance for the Wikimedia foundation. Beyond that, it’s usually between a coffee and 20€, depending on how much potential I see, how much it has helped me, and how much the project needs the money. Maybe needless to say: Bug reports help a lot so I place them where I find one. Finally, when it comes to code contributions I find it hard. Usually that requires a lot of preparation and time to get into the depth of the project beyond the API/fronted. And that is, more often than not, a road block for me.
I think though, that the amount given is not a good measure on its own. It depends a lot on what one has and is able to give. There are so many people out there who earn way more than they need (including me, although I am nowhere rich). They could easily give a lot more and cover for a general user base. And the latter, making the project more popular and maybe contributing some bug reports is just as essential.
I give a fair amount of issue reports but more UX