spankministerJan 8, 2023
lee

What are some of the open source projects you support financially?
This year I donated to (in no particular order):

Regolith (desktop environment), Amfora gemini client, Thunderbird email client, Lurk (server, community), Merveilles (server, community), Neovim (text editor), Imagemagick (image editing swiss army knife toolkit), ffmpeg (video editing toolkit swiss army knife), Krita (image editing software), Wikimedia, Kde (for kdenlive and Ghostwriter), Love2d (Lua videogame framework)

Dec 6, 2022 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadleeDec 6, 2022

and possibly some more i'm forgetting.

Rather than direct my money to subscription services I try to pay donations to the open source software I rely on daily.

Show threadleeDec 6, 2022
besides open source software, I make my largest annual donation to Books Through Bars in NYC, an all volunteer-run group that sends free, donated books to incarcerated people across the country.
Other than financial contributions, I consider myself a supporter (with bug reports, code, documentation, sometimes PRs) of Processing and p5.js, fish shell (answering questions on the various stackoverflows, when im not asking them myself), pyradio (writing some tutorials), and various other small stuff
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Dec 6, 2022
@exquisitecorp gotosocial, tic80, tiled, and archive.org are the most recent ones for me, plus supporting some individuals who aren't working on a specific program but doing important work
Show threadleeDec 6, 2022
@technomancy great list.
i've been meaning to try out tiled with love2d.
tic80 i've not spent enough time with because i use pico-8 and love2d, but i'm going to try it as i'm proposing an intro to gamemaking class with lua for the fall and need to decide what tools to propose we use.
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Dec 6, 2022
@exquisitecorp cool, where would this class be offered?
Show threadleeDec 7, 2022
@technomancy I teach at one of the state universities in NY. This would be an alternative intro to programming course I'd offer.
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Dec 7, 2022
@exquisitecorp awesome! I've never taught at that level but I think TIC is one of the best entry points possible for programmers
Show threadleeDec 7, 2022
@technomancy this is cool, i'm trying out some of the games and looking at documentation.
i like how it's all-inclusive with soundmaking and sprites. this might make it an easier entry than love2d.
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Dec 7, 2022

@exquisitecorp all the benefits of pico8 without the licensing issues and eye-melting font, more or less =)

plus it lets you use lisp

Show threadleeDec 7, 2022
@technomancy I can appreciate that!. Yeah , the pico8 font is very hard on my eyes. Similar problems for me using panic playdate.
Show threadgavcloudDec 6, 2022
@exquisitecorp nice list! this was the first year I donated to TiddlyWiki and my local mastodon instance … and I returned to my annual Wikimedia support as per ūjj
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@exquisitecorp regolith is such a gateway drug into tiling window managers ❤️
Show threadleeDec 6, 2022
@xorxor it is! I'm trying to redo a lot of its defaults on my Void system at my studio. I've installed ulauncher but i really liked their ilia launcher a lot.
Show threadBorisDec 6, 2022
@exquisitecorp one I’ve tried to support consistently over the years is OpenMW (Morrowind engine reimplementation)
Show threadNelsonJan 8, 2023
@exquisitecorp I'm donating to:
- @Tusky - Mastodon client for Android
- @pixelfed - Federated Instagram alternative
- @fdroidorg - catalog of FOSS Android apps
- @ManjaroARM - default Linux flavor for my Pinebook Pro laptop
- @Liberapay - recurring donations platform, operated by a non-profit and doesn't take a cut