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What projects does the community like to donate to?
In the past, I've donated to EFF, Mint, Wikipedia (though this is controversial), Project Gutenburg and the Internet Archive. I just stumbled on torservers.net where you can fund Tor exit nodes. I guess GPG would also be a good candidate — the maintainer, Werner Koch's struggle for funding has been discussed here on SN before.
Do you guys have any other recommendations? Bounty Source looks interesting.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @08:21PM
I gave $1024 to the videolan guys about 10 years ago.
I asked them not to put my name in any sort of public acknowledgementm because I didn't want the exposure.
But they didn't even say thanks in a private email or anything. Kinda bummed me out.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Sunday April 19 2015, @08:23PM
I like you.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @08:44PM
(Not the op)
To the extent I donate I wouldn't want anyone knowing how much I donate or to whom. It's none of their business and if people know I will be hit up by every charity organization possible and hounded by them. You can't even go to the store without random people hitting you up for money and if you let them think you are generous they will hound you every minute for donations. And it's not like I have a lot of money (and I don't really donate a whole lot). I can see why no one would want their names listed on charitable lists.
(Score: 2) by ah.clem on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:31PM
I kinda agree with this post. We have a regular list of places we contribute to on an annual basis, and I have some websites I belong to that I support with contributions (full disclosure - not SN yet, will get to it, I promise) but I don't think making the details public is such a great idea (although I had no idea about Wikipedia, and they are off the list as of now). Also, we don't claim our contributions on our taxes; it's really no one's business but ours and the recipient. And I am a sucker for the checkout deal - five bucks for this, five bucks for that, more during the holidays. But I feel fortunate to have it to give, so I don't mind the asking.
The one I hate, and I don't do, is when the fire department pulls their trucks into one of our major intersections and then stares while pushing boots at me when I'm stopped at the red light; it feels like extortion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:57PM
The one I hate, and I don't do, is when the fire department pulls their trucks into one of our major intersections and then stares while pushing boots at me when I'm stopped at the red light; it feels like extortion.
In Massachusetts they have people from jimmy fund [jimmyfund.org] come around in the movie theaters before the show starts. You are trapped in your seat and they shove a popcorn bucket / collection-plate in front of you and make you say no. The first time that happened to me, shortly after moving there, I simply could not believe it. I thought it was performance art or something. High-pressure guilt tactics feel just as icky as high-pressure sales tactics of any sort. I wouldn't put up with that shit when buying a car, no way in hell am I putting up with it from an organization that claims to be "good." I stopped going to movies shortly after that. There are no solicitors in my home theater.