Does anyone know of a way to distribute donations to multiple open source projects at once? I would like to donate more frequently and broadly but because of the large number of different projects it would be laborious and inefficient to donate small fractions of what I can afford to each of them manually. What would be helpful is a distributor to whom I can say “These are all the people I want want to donate to and here is some money. Please distribute it to them on my behalf.”
Does anything like this already exist?
I use Liberapay and have been pretty happy with it. Have found quite a few of the people and projects to which I would like to donate, but not all.
This looks really cool! Didn’t know anything like it existed
Open collective let’s you do this I think.
Non profits might be good candidates, in particular the software in the public interest is governed by a board elected by open source contributors. From it’s website:
Donations to SPI that are not marked for a particular project will be distributed to the projects that are currently affiliated with SPI as needed, and/or used for SPI’s own expenses.
Definitely Open Collective.
