My value-for-value proposition

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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.

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

bitcoin.org

Bitcoin (BTC) is magic internet money, and the best option for international donations.

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The currency Bitcoin is sometimes abbreviated BTC, XBT, or just ₿.

All Bitcoin donations can be seen in the public (but pseudonymous) blockchain ledger, for example via mempool.space alternatively via mempool⋯.onion.

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.

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.

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.

concurrent-ruby

Modern concurrency tools for Ruby. Helps speed up servers and clients by providing functionality for common concurrency/parallelism patterns.

Source code

ZeroMQ.js

Javascript bindings for ZeroMQ, a flexible message queue library/protocol. Enables implementing asynchronous communication both internally on the same machine, and externally between multiple machines. Allows several patterns, but does not require a dedicated/central message broker.

Source code, Website, Wikipedia

Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists (SCOWL)

SCOWL is a database of English words, used to create word lists for spell checkers etcetera.

Source code, Website

NOYB European Center for Digital Rights

"None of your business." Focused on privacy issues and privacy violations in the private sector, for example the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Has won cases against Facebook, Google, Spotify, as well as strengthened privacy in the EU. Member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) advocacy group.

Website, Wikipedia

factorio-docker

Containerized, self-hosted server for the (closed-source) Factorio game. Players construct and automate a factory to build the components required to escape an alien planet.

Source code

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.