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 Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) is magic internet money, and the best option for international donations.
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.
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 |
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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.
- pam_ssh_agent_auth
- A pluggable authentication module (PAM) module which enables PAM authentication via your keyring in a forwarded ssh-agent. Reduces repetitive password typing, in particular for sudo usage in remote server management.
- Source code
- Privacy International (PI)
- PI is a UK-based organization defending and promoting the right to privacy across the world. Member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) advocacy group.
- Website, Wikipedia
- Eclipse Open VSX
- A vendor-neutral open-source registry alternative to Visual Studio Marketplace/for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions (VSX). Enables VSCode extension usage in open source forks, such as the privacy-oriented VSCodium, of the official (proprietary, with user tracking/telemetry) VSCode builds from Microsoft.
- Source code, Website
- react-markdown
- React component to render raw Markdown code. Can be configured to only allow a subset of Markdown/HTML features, to filter links, etcetera. Extensible with plugins to handle Markdown variants/extensions.
- Source code, Website
- Mullvad VPN
- Commercial virtual private network (VPN) service, offering an encrypted internet traffic tunnel for some privacy protections against internet service provider (ISP) and internet protocol (IP) address/location tracking. Has support for Wireguard and both single- and double-jump tunnels, with exits in many countries around the world. Mullvad has released much of their client- and server software as open source, and are collaborating with Mozilla and The Tor Project.
- Source code, Website, Wikipedia
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.