I am regularly in a position to control how funds for tech projects are spent. For example, choosing cloud infrastructure and such. I want to direct as much funding as possible to FOSS or FOSS friendly projects. The amount of money that I have control over in the company is way more than I could ever donate.

For example, I want to fund Linux kernel development, Postgres, language maintainers, etc.

I can’t convince companies to donate outright, but I could get them to buy a license or choose a different cloud provider or database provider.

I’m looking for ways to get money to people making a difference through legitimate channels that I can use to push internally.

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Summary of my favorite options so far,

  • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
    10·
    14 hours ago

    I do this too! I always wondered who shares this weird interest. I recently got our company to install LibreOffice on a TS due to MS licensing expenses. We’re doing a small donation (in comparison to MS fees) which I know will be appreciated vs expected.

    • motionofethre@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      9·
      13 hours ago

      Yeah. I just wish there was a “support plan” because companies are weird about donations. I do things like push for RHEL instances so fees get sent up to RedHat. I fully agree with the donation approach, but some cloud budgets hit 10-100k and I want that money going to good things 😅