What about a contest for students who are working with FOSS projects, the team that makes the best (result/gain/change/performance to the cause) in their project wins prizes ($750 =  $400 first, $250 2nd, 100 3rd  and DDG stickers for 4th through 10th)

To start off, maybe you could donate to all the projects that you are using for DDG?? Just an idea.
This could include wikipedia (0-click stuff).

btw, This is a great initiative!! :-)

I think some small donations to FOSS browsers like: midori, gnuzilla, epiphany would be a good idea.

The Sugar Labs project attempts to bring education to the world's poorest children. I think it's a great candidate to receive tithes that people may want to donate.

Wow! This is a great idea!

For candidates, here's what comes off the top of my head:

Wikimedia Foundation: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/wiki/Donate

OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org/support/

GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/

Blender 3D: http://www.blender.org/

(And the obvious ones that you probably thought of):

GNU Project/FSF: http://www.gnu.org / http://www.fsf.org

Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/
      Tor Project: https://www.torproject.org/

Python: http://python.org/

I think it would be quite appropriate to donate the sum to the Perl Foundation.

I'd vote for Wikipedia and EFF, and propose also Ushahidi :)

First off, I'd like to say that this is an amazing concept. I work with a lot of FOSS, so I donate to FOSS projects as well.

What do people thing of bang for the buck though? Some of those orgs have way bigger budgets than others and are able to get donations way better than others, etc.?

So by my tally, the revenue last year was $19004, which leaves $1900 for donations.

Well, I put a vote in to the sugarlabs/One Laptop Per Child group. For 199 dollars you can buy a child an XO laptop. You're supporting free software and education in a nation that desperately needs it.

Forgot the link, but you can do it through amazon:

www.amazon.com/xo

The OLPC project.

Or AutoHotkey...

I would start off with donating to FOSS projects that duckduckgo make use of first then look at others

The first ones that come to mind: Ushahidi, Apertium, GIMP, Wikimedia, EFF

EFF, even though it's not really a FOSS project.

reactos shold be big one you guys donate to

clamwin could also be one you donate to http://www.clamwin.com i know they could use the money

I looked over this whole thread in detail, and all the projects mentioned. I'm thinking a theme makes sense. Originally, I said it would be 50/50 of projects we use and directed by the community. 

i like clamwin as one

I want to do research on how people think about the internet and the morality of network neutrality.  Who do I harass? ; )

-Zach

Any plans for a 2011 version of this?

Moderator

How about ReactOS? It's an open source operating system that aims to be binary-compatible with Windows. Sadly, due to lack of funds, they haven't gotten as far as they'd like to.

I would like to nominate Diaspora* http://diasporafoundation.org

I nominate the Tor Project again this year because of stuff like this 28c3 talk. If "no" because they got kickbacks last year (or because they get some substantial support from the U.S.A. State Dept and other spooks) then I nominate The I2P Project which is a competing network that hasn't gotten the press attention or cash/code contribution that Tor receives. I still believe Tor is the "right" choice. Only offer an alternative should they not be allowed back to back funding two years in a row.

This is particularly important because people are risking their lives and being killed out there for using the network to retrieve and disseminate information. That's what search engines are all about. Information.

Aside from The Network™, client-side document security/privacy is important too. So I also nominate TrueCrypt because they pretty much solved this problem (and then some!) and they are doing it gratis. (Plus they didn't get any cash last year ;)

Maybe a Mod (im looking at you green since you bumped it ;)  should fork this thread and move the posts from this year into that one lest this one's size becomes unruly.

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David Pierce

Made a new thread for this year here:  https://duck.co/topic/foss-2011-donation-nominations