Sounds intersting! I would post my data there, but I don’t have any spare time to help developing currently.
Donated to conversations (Your XMPP account for 8 Euro / year)
More about conversations read hier
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Good idea! I don’t think that I can remember to donate each month, but I try do it once in while. Donated to F-droid today. Next ideas:
- Etar
- Open camera
- Mozilla
- DAVdroid
- LibreOffice
- VLC
So, if I find some time this weekend I will look for some useful software or start writing something myself for the website. It would be great to already have something next month. 
Btw: Donated to conversations today. At the moment my favorite free software.
Do you think it would be a good idea if we, as the Fairphone community, tried to agree on one project every month?
We could then say “This month the Fairphone community donates X EUR to …”.
Sounds like a good idea, but
- I wonder if it’s not too compelling and difficult to organize (who should we wire the money to before donating to the chosen software? who would centralize the donations?)
- We (Fairphone users) are nice idealists, but we should avoid appearing (too) smug (remember this old Southpark episode?). Such a statement as “This month the Fairphone community donates X EUR to …” may not be really useful!
I like the anonymity in charity (well, in this case it wouldn’t be charity as we would pay for a service/an effort that we benefit from) and I would see this post more like an incentive, a way to get ideas of softwares to donate to, and a reminder. Maybe we could think about something like a discussion or even a poll every month and converge towards one company. It could be what you were considering, but without the final statement!
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I wasn’t thinking about centralizing payments. What I had in mind more was a voluntary declaration from community members. And at the end of the month someone would just calculate the sum of the individual donations.
Hi again, I spent an hour or two on the free-software-donation-day.com today. Without any outcome to show yet. Just wanted to let you know that I am still enthusiastic. 
I like the idea of choosing a project per month together as a community. Again this adds some social aspect to it.
I am not sure if it is a good idea to include the actual amount. I fear that it then feels like some kind of competition or ego boost. And I also would like to encourage people to participate, even if they can’t or don’t want to give much.
€dit: I am not allowed to post more than three times per Thread, because I am a new user. (Srzly?) So I just edit my last post:
Yesterday was FSDD again. 
I did not do much regarding the Website. I am still convinced that it would be a good idea, but I was very busy. I even forgot FSDD yesterday.
Well, but to keep this alive at least a bit: I will give some money to conversations.im again. Why them? Because for me it is the most important Free Software project at the moment and I really want to support it’s development.
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This topic is just great!
I just found this website that will make an alternative way of donating to projects possible:
Still in beta it seems, but maybe a nice way to ánd donate to good software ánd promote them by wearing their logo on your chest.
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Well, quite a busy period for donation and I think that I would favour humanitarian NGOs this month, but I also donated to Framasoft. I like their goal and their efforts to offer Google-free services. I am currently trying their calendar, which also synchronizes contacts and notes. No problem so far.
Have a nice donation week
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I am a bit early this month, but I donated to Mozilla.org to support their work on Firefox, Thunderbird and the MDN (Mozilla Developer Network). In fact, I rely so much on their software, that I started a Monthly donation of 2€. I also donated to Wikipedia this month.
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Glad to see the thread is still alive.
My donation this month goes to conversations.im again. Still the most important Free Software Project for me at the moment. I give a little bit more this month, because of Christmas and Holidays and stuff.
For the protocol: I did not do anything on the website. Did not have the time by now and I am actually not sure if too many people would be interested… So maybe just stick with this thread. If I will find some time, I’ll still work on the Website of course.
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Not much spare time these days. But at least I’d like to try and keep this idea alive.
My donation this month went to letsencrypt.org . They provide a simple and automated way to generate TLS-Certificates for your web server. I’m using this service for some months (years?) now and when something went wrong recently, I remembered how much I love this project.
With their effort it is a realistic goal now to have the whole web on https instead of http some day in the future.
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Didn’t know about Framasoft, thanks for sharing!
Hi @nore , thanks for the effort!
letsenrypt.org is very good idea, I joined you and donated 6$ to support their goal of a more secure web for everyone. @Stefan kontalk is a great idea to. Is it working well?
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I’ve been testing group chats with @stanzi, @lidwien and @Marie1 and we finally made it to the last beta!
Also their plan for 2017 is to facilitate federation with other XMPP networks (no walled garden!)
Kontalk has had a Discourse for some weeks, BTW:
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It’s not the last Thursday of the month, but it is Valentine’s Day aka I love Free Software day. (https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170209-01.en.html)
So I showed some love to the Debian project today.
www.debian.org
I’m a Debian user for years now. And before I was using Linux Mint and Ubuntu, which both rely heavily on Debian. And I really love the spirit of the project.
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