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

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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.

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

BTRFS Maintenance

Scripts for BTRFS file system maintenance tasks like periodic scrub/balance/trim/defrag on selected mountpoints or directories. Easily configured, and may be set up such that tasks are serialized to reduce disk load.

Source code

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi is an international advocacy group/network collective consisting of non-profit, non-governmental organizations (NGO), experts, advocates, and academics. They are working to defend and advance digital rights, with a focus on Europe.

Website, Wikipedia

Prosody IM

Self-hosted/decentralized instant messaging server, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). Uses plugins for extensibility. Supports OMEMO Multi-End Message and Object Encryption (OMEMO) for multi-participant and multi-client use.

Source code, Website, Wikipedia

Dropbear

Secure Shell (SSH) server/client for embedded systems. Smaller footprint than OpenSSH, yet implements the complete SSH protocol (version 2).

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.