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Which IT non-profit organizations would / have you donate to ? - Bastille - Mar 30, 2025
Recently, I’ve been thinking about donating to IT non-profit organizations because when I was younger, I always said, “When I grow up and start earning a salary, I’ll be able to give back.”
Now I’m wondering which ones are truly worth it—who really deserves it?
I’d like to keep this thread focused on IT-related non-profit organizations.
Here are a few I have in mind :
- WinRAR (Been using it for free for years—these guys definitely deserve some love.)
- Wayback Machine / Internet Archive (Seriously, how amazing is it to browse the internet from the past?!)
- VLC (Who hasn’t downloaded VLC? Plus, they’re French—gotta support the homeland!)
- FSF / FOSS / The Linux Foundation (Like, where would we be if they hadn’t been there ?)
By the way, speaking of WinRAR—they’ve released some clothes and merch : https://in.tern.et/collections/winrar which are crazy, I would defnitely wear the WinRAR SENIOR VARSITY JACKET tern® , but need to get a job before haha, can't spend 224$ on this right now.
Feel free to share the ones you're thinking about !
RE: Which IT non-profit organizations would / have you donate to ? - Tyr - Mar 30, 2025
Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) deserves it hands-down.
RE: Which IT non-profit organizations would / have you donate to ? - Artisan - Mar 30, 2025
Definitely the ones on the list plus Wikipedia.
RE: Which IT non-profit organizations would / have you donate to ? - Bastille - Mar 31, 2025
(Mar 30, 2025 06:02 PM)Artisan Wrote: Definitely the ones on the list plus Wikipedia.
I've donated two times to Wikipedia however after few years I've stumbled upon videos like this one :
(Mar 30, 2025 11:24 PM)vrs Wrote: Vlc, Libre suite, ad block, even wikipedia are all free resources that have helped the masses navigate personal computing for years. Cool concept
Ohhh, didn't think about adblockers, my money would go to uBlock Origin for sure !
RE: Which IT non-profit organizations would / have you donate to ? - Beherit - Mar 31, 2025
(Mar 31, 2025 03:01 AM)Bastille Wrote: I've donated two times to Wikipedia however after few years I've stumbled upon videos like this one :
Ohhh, didn't think about adblockers, my money would go to uBlock Origin for sure !
uBlock is a must for sure - also MAL-Sync extention. VLC, qbittorrent, and Audacity. Maybe Veracrypt too.