Was reading this article, and it got me thinking. There’s lots of people who are happy to complain at length, but what if we made it a point to pick a particular day each year to express our collective gratitude for the work people do for FOSS?
Whether in the form of donations or kind words (maybe even joining a project), it might be something that helps keep people going on the things they love but for which they don’t get a lot of appreciation.
Curious to hear y’all’s thoughts.
Edit: Someone mentioned I Love Free Software Day, which is cool that it exists. I like the idea behind it, but I’m hesitant to piggyback upon a well-known holiday, for fear of being wholly overshadowed (Valentine’s Day is already stressful enough for some people).
Really need an annual fundraiser type day where everyone is reminded to donate to their software maintainer and server host etc
Without donatioms fedi can’t scale imho
But if everybody pitched 10 bucks per year, I bet that could take us into big boys club
Only about 15-20 of us support my instance, so if everyone gave $5 USD annually, I bet every instance would be covered.