My value-for-value proposition
I offer 70+ software projects, programs, and libraries — free to use for anyone in the world. You can even download all the source code, and modify it to your liking. To develop open source software is not without cost though — it takes technical knowledge, time, and effort.
Is my software useful to you? You can pay what you want, but money isn't everything — there are many ways to support the open source and digital rights communities.
Thank you in advance from the free/libre open source software movement 😃
Support options
Donate using Paypal
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You can also choose your own donation amount and currency at Paypal. Every once in a while I send thank-you emails to Paypal donors.
Send a postcard
Why not simply send a postcard? I rarely receive snail-mail in this digital age, and it would make my day.
Joel Purra
Wrangelstr. 55
DE-10997 Berlin
Germany
Donate via bank transfer
Direct transfers to my bank account are possible internationally. This is particularly suitable for donations in Swedish Kronor (SEK) or Euro (EUR), since transactions within the European Union (EU) are fast and without fees.
| Account holder | Joel Purra |
|---|---|
| IBAN | SE4692700000092711527077 |
| BIC | IBCASES1 |
| Receiving bank | ICA Banken AB, Sweden |
Help in other ways
Each and every one can help out in free/libre open source software and digital rights organizations. It doesn't have to take much effort — start your journey based on your own abilities, wants, and needs.
- Help someone install and use open source software.
- Tell a few friends about open source code.
- Share a few links to open source projects and websites.
- Improve project translations in your native tongue.
- Write a bug report.
- Patch a bug and send a pull request.
- Join an open source software workshop or meetup.
- Attend a digital rights workshop or meetup.
- Become a member of a digital rights organization.
- Mention to your boss that many open source developers are happy to write code as contractors.
Support other projects
My own open source software is built with the help of many, many other open source projects — thousands when including subdependencies. Akin to standing on the shoulders of giants, I owe my career to the open source and digital rights communities.
Below are some projects, organizations, and individuals, which I consider worthy of promoting. If you would like to explore something interesting, and perhaps extend your support, these would be some of my recommendations.
- F-Droid
- A privacy- and open source-focused app-store for Android. Labels apps which may use anti-features, such as non-free network services. Does not require registration.
- Website, Wikipedia
- Snowflake
- Circumvent internet censorship when connecting to The Tor Network. Those living in relatively uncensored countries can run/self-host a proxy to help those affected by censorship.
- Source code, Website, Wikipedia
- Digitalcourage
- German privacy and digital rights organization preserving "a world worth living in the digital age"; civil and human rights, consumer protection, privacy, freedom of information. Member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) advocacy group.
- Website, Wikipedia
- BZFlag
- Multiplayer tank game with simple graphics but strategic gameplay. Has many enhancements compared to the original inspiration "bz" found on Silicon Graphics (SGI) computers.
- Source code, Website, Wikipedia
- Single Player Tarkov (SPT)
- An open source game server reimplementation for the first person shooter (FPS) game (closed-source) Escape from Tarkov (EFT). Players are stuck in post-war Russia, where they have to construct a shelter and gather provisions to survive. Expands EFT's builtin, offline, single-player mode to mimic parts of the highly competitive, online, multiplayer experience. Enables tweaking inventory, player stats, maps, loot, enemies, etcetera. Allows loading modifications, and can emulate some of the live experience such as fluctuating market prices.
- Source code, Website
These entries are a randomized subset, refreshed periodically. You may recognize some popular projects already; I have tried to also include lesser-known projects and individual efforts, where some extra exposure and support may make a bigger difference.
See also my list of starred repositories on Github for a much broader, mixed list of both useful and interesting projects.