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Distributor of donations? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone know of a way to distribute donations to multiple open source projects at once? I would like to donate more frequently and broadly but because of the large number of different projects it would be laborious and inefficient to donate small fractions of what I can afford to each of them manually. What would be helpful is a distributor to whom I can say "These are all the people I want want to donate to and here is some money. Please distribute it to them on my behalf."

Does anything like this already exist?

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[–] rycee@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use Liberapay and have been pretty happy with it. Have found quite a few of the people and projects to which I would like to donate, but not all.

[–] TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

This looks really cool! Didn't know anything like it existed

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 points 9 months ago

Open collective let's you do this I think.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Non profits might be good candidates, in particular the software in the public interest is governed by a board elected by open source contributors. From it's website:

Donations to SPI that are not marked for a particular project will be distributed to the projects that are currently affiliated with SPI as needed, and/or used for SPI's own expenses.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Definitely Open Collective.