Over time, we have discovered many great projects, many of which are drowned by capitalistic competition. We believe that openness and independence is the way forward for humanity, so we want to use what we earn to advance the vision of a postcapitalistic, resource-based world where technology liberates humans to fulfill their potential rather than constricting, enslaving and manipulating us.
Setup
Initiatives to support by providing infrastructure
- Freifunk Access Point
- Tor Node: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone - https://codeberg.org/lukm/helm-tor-snowflake-proxy
- https://aihorde.net worker
- (Monero) Crypto Node
Sponsor
See also https://about.ftt.gmbh/cooperations/ideas#improving-existing-opensource-software
Priority
- Vikunja - the task manager that might become universal: https://kolaente.dev/vikunja/api/issues/1198
- Create a real alternative to proprietary design tools with https://github.com/akiraux/Akira (Web: https://penpot.app) (mascot by https://tysontan.com)
- Empower https://zorin.com to become THE Windows alternative
Backseat
- Make https://plantuml.com user-friendly
- Bonfire: https://bonfirenetworks.org/contribute/
Android
- AI-Enhanced Camera App: https://github.com/iakmds/librecamera/issues/66
- Librera Reader for Android: https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader/issues/935
- Smoothify https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore
Adopt
- Free https://www.invoiceninja.org from licensing restrictions
- Free the developer of https://k9scli.io of the necessity to sell add-ons (https://github.com/imhotepio/k9salpha/issues/7#issuecomment-1356848698)
- Revive https://github.com/maruos/maruos - a Lineage fork with a Debian desktop
Liberate
These projects are missing matching open source equivalents and thus should be bought and liberated once sufficient funds are available:
- https://graphisoft.com/solutions/archicad - Designing Architecture https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad/overview - Modeling Hardware
- DeepL & ChatGPT - Natural Language Processing -> Check LLaMa and the like
- Legally accredited bookkeeping and tax reporting
Donate
So hepful were the maintainers of these projects that they deserve unconditional support:
Big Initiatives
These projects are vast, good initiatives worthy of support:
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
- https://openlibrary.org: https://archive.org/donate
- https://www.gutenberg.org
More Social Good
https://www.tierhilfe-schutzengel.de/tierhilfe/tiki-lebenshof -> Hagenow in MeckPom, Gesellschaft in Berlin-Brandenburg
More Stuff we use
- https://solidus.io as shop-system (https://opencollective.com/solidus)
- Harvester: Longhorn, Kubernetes, Docker
Games
- Hollow Knight: Orchestrate the soundtrack, push sequel and multiplayer variant (duel mode?)
- FreeCiv: Elevate it to a real Civilization Alternative
- 0ad: Dedicated Developers who deserve sponsoting for modernising AoE authentically
- Minetest: Unify community and market as real Minecraft alternative
Hardware
- Associated in https://www.oshwa.org
- German Tech: MNT Research, Shiftphone
- Framework, Pine64, System76, Fairphone
- https://libre-soc.org