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
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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 |
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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.
- ZNC
- Self-hosted internet relay chat (IRC) network bouncer (BNC). Stores messages from IRC servers when users' IRC clients are offline, so they don't miss anything while they're away from keyboard (AFK).
- Source code, 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
- Wayback Machine
- Internet Archive runs the Wayback Machine, allowing users to go "back in time" by accessing older versions of websites. Has saved hundreds of billions of web pages, and is very useful both as a personal historical archive and for research.
- Source code, Website, Wikipedia
- 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
- Git
- Quitessential tool for managing source code for software. Popular with open source projects, and in particular all the projects hosted on (closed-source commercial service) Github.
- 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.