The holidays can be a trying time of year for everyone, with all the gift buying and stress and all. I wanted to take this time to make a plea. The open source software that all of us use is powered by volunteers! Show them your support by donating! I’m compiling a list here of prominent contributors to donate to, and I strongly urge you to consider saying “thank you” to people who work hard to give you the tools and knowledge that you use every day! So, without anything further:
- Aaron Winborn - Long-Time Drupal Contributor: Donation Page
- Andrei Zmievski - Memcached Maintainer and PHP Maintainer- Amazon Wishlist
- Anthony Ferrara - Me!!! - Amazon Wishlist
- Chris Hartjes - The Grumpy Programmer (and DevHell Podcaster) - Amazon Wishlist
- Derick Rethans - XDebug Author and PHP Maintainer- Amazon Wishlist
- Ed Finkler - The Funkatron (and DevHell Podcaster) - Amazon Wishlist
- Johannes Schlüter - PHP Maintainer - Amazon Wishlist
- Louis Cordova - Symfony Contributor - Donate
- Mike Babker - Joomla Extension Developer - Paypal Donate
- Rafael Dohms - Frequent Speaker - Amazon Wishlist
- Rasmus Lerdorf - Founder of the PHP project - Amazon Wishlist
- Sebastian Bergmann - PHPUnit Author - Amazon Wishlist
Or, if donating to individuals isn’t your thing (or you want to do more), there are plenty of charities that could use your help (here are only a few ideas):
- Cancer Research Institute (US Based Charity)
- Children’s Health Fund (US Based Charity)
- The American Red Cross (US Based Charity)
- Together For Short Lives (UK Based Charity)
And other organizations (not exactly charities) that are worth while donating to:
Who did I miss? If you know someone (or a worth-while charity) that I missed, either reply in a comment, or shoot me an email (ircmaxell [at] php [dot] net) and I’ll add them to the list…