I’m making a quick list to be sure to support projects that have a positive impact on my digital life, at the crossroads of selfhosting and privacy.
Selfhosting is currently more of a hobby (fiddling, note-taking and media serving), and looking at my Portainer stack right now, I’m thinking of PiHole, Jellyfin, Homarr and Homepage.
Some projects like FileBrowser, PiGallery2 and Audiobookshelf don’t seem to have a way to contribute financially.
Any well-know project that might be in near-critical condition/need of support? Which projects are you planning to donate to?
JellyFin is a great one. They’re needing the support due to a lack of devs.
Signal
Home assistant
Vaultwarden
The last couple of years I have been donating to Gluetun.
The dev is very responsive to feature requests, and I don’t know how I would get along without it now.
Jellyfin and neovim!
Coolify, amazing project!
Trilium Notes!
FreeBSD & GrapheneOS
Opnsense. Switched to it right after the whole pfSense plus fiasco.
Just donated to OctoPrint! Use it all the time and it’s been rock solid for years!
Vaultwarden, Wikipedia, Vox Pupuli (Puppet)
(Bu not specifically this time of the year, it’s a monthly small amount)
Jellyfin Immich Paperless-ngx
What I do is take my yearly donation budget and divide it up to all of the projects (don’t forget about those libraries, dependencies, etc)