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Why don't you donate (or donate more) to KDE? (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by parens@programming.dev to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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Related to a previous post about Thunderbird collecting 6.4 million dollars in 2022 and KDE only 200k, I'm wondering why people do not donate or do not donate more to KDE.

What's holding you back?

Here's what I said in that thread

I donate periodically to KDE, but my major gripe is that I don’t know where the money is going. They have no financial reports that can be easily found, individual projects don’t have a donation button, there’s no public tracking of their income or expenditure like on opencollective, and it’s not easy to find KDE devs (aka who is actually on the KDE team) so that one could sponsor individual devs.

Although I trust KDE more than Mozilla (MZ pays their CEO 7 million/year and invests in anything but Firefox, their most known project), I would much much much rather prefer it to know where the money goes.

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[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 10 months ago

There are many ways of contributing to Free Software with your efforts. That you are seriously considering it is already very much appreciated. Maybe you should think about signing up to one of KDE's mentorship programs (excuse the bare bones website, it is still work in progress)? These would help you get the foot in the door of contributing with someone to guide you, and even a foot in the door of the IT industry.

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