There are many ways to show your appreciation of and contribute to Free/Libre Open Source (FLOSS) projects, including:
- Organizing or volunteering to serve at a meetup
- Creating or editing documentation
- Writing about or promoting a project
- Performing translations
- Posting feature requests or reporting bugs
- Submitting code
If you do not have the time for these options, monetary contributions are an alternative, if you have the means to do so. However, it can be hard to find the appropriate places to submit your donations.
The following is a collection of donation links to FLOSS projects that greatly contribute to user freedom, privacy/security, and science.
- Center For Democracy & Technology
- A champion of global online civil liberties and human rights in today’s digital world.
- Debian
- The universal operating system.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- A nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
- Free Software Foundation
- Defend and promote computer users' rights.
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- Empowers users to control technology.
- GNOME
- An easy and elegant way to use your computer.
- Internet Archive
- A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- Jami
- A universal and distributed communication platform that respects the freedoms and privacy of users.
- Jupyter
- Open-source software, open standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages.
- Mozilla
- Working to keep the Web healthy.
- NumPy
- Enable numerical computing with Python.
- pandas
- Fast, powerful, flexible, and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool, built on top of the Python programming language.
- Python Software Foundation
- Foster development of the Python community.
- scikit-learn
- Machine learning in Python.
- Signal
- Committed to the mission of developing open source privacy technology that protects free expression and enables secure global communication.
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- Ensure the right to repair, improve, and reinstall software.
- Software in the Public Interest
- Helps open source projects by handling their non-technical administrative tasks, so that they are not required to operate their own legal entity.
- Tails
- A portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
- Tor Project
- Onion routing to provide private access to an uncensored Web.
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Create a legacy that empowers free and equal access to the world’s knowledge.