Related to a previous post about Thunderbird collecting 6.4 million dollars in 2022 and KDE only 200k, I’m wondering why people do not donate or do not donate more to KDE.
What’s holding you back?
Here’s what I said in that thread
I donate periodically to KDE, but my major gripe is that I don’t know where the money is going. They have no financial reports that can be easily found, individual projects don’t have a donation button, there’s no public tracking of their income or expenditure like on opencollective, and it’s not easy to find KDE devs (aka who is actually on the KDE team) so that one could sponsor individual devs.
Although I trust KDE more than Mozilla (MZ pays their CEO 7 million/year and invests in anything but Firefox, their most known project), I would much much much rather prefer it to know where the money goes.
I’m a poor student living in a poor country. I’m contributing with telemetry and bug reports instead. I’ve thought about helping with development, but they seem to mostly need C++ developers and I don’t happen to be one, unfortunately.
You are helping a lot already. Thank you for your contributions!