[ Thanks to Ladislav
Bodnar for this link. ]
“DistroWatch is proud to announce an initiative to offer
financial assistance to Free Software projects. The extent of this
assistance will be set to 10% of DistroWatch’s income from
advertising, sale of merchandise and related products and services,
and can initially be expected to reach between US$150 to US$500 per
month. These funds will be donated to various Free Software
projects as determined by the maintainers, contributors and
visitors of DistroWatch. The donations will have no strings
attached.“The first benefactor of this initiative will be the GnuCash
project (after all, what other project would be more suitable to
receive the first donation than the one we use to track DistroWatch
finances?). The second benefactor will be the Debian GNU/Linux
project, which has been our preferred operating system to host the
DistroWatch web site since it moved to a dedicated server over a
year ago. Readers are welcome to submit suitable candidates for
consideration to receive financial assistance, either in the reader
forums in each issue of DistroWatch Weekly, or by private email.
There are no rules other than these projects have to be of
non-commercial nature, and they have to be developed with the goal
of advancing the adoption of Linux…”