Another thought regarding #OpenSource software. There is a pervasive mentality that such software cannot be associated with money. It appears hard to reconcile paying for something that is free.
This mentality must change. We must foster and support the idea that great software is costly to develop. How can we ensure that more people financially contribute to OSS if it supports them?
I believe that we should highlight those paying and supporting OSS. 1/x
How about a website/portal/system where we could aggregate and display how people could contribute and support various software packages. Where we encourage support, provide tools and guides to how one can support projects.
Perhaps (as a starting point) it could be a simple collection of popular projects where you can contribute financially, orgs enabling such support and how to connect with those?
I so fucking wish there were more hours available during each day...
@nopatience one small thing that anyone can do, is that when you tell others about some great software that you are using, for example you write a blog post about it or post somewhere about it, make sure to mention something about how and where we can donate to that project. I mean instead of just writing "software XYZ is great and it's free!", write "software XYZ is great and its FOSS so it needs funding, here is how to donate ."
