Thread 🧵 of 501(c)(3) public charities you can support instead of the FSF, if you care about its mission:
The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) provides a fiscal home for community-governed projects like git, sponsors Outreachy, and is the only organization doing GPL enforcement: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
Software in the Public Interest provides a fiscal home for a number of FOSS projects like Debian and FFmpeg: https://spi-inc.org/donations/
The Open Source Initiative [disclosure: I recently served on its board] maintains the Open Source Definition, a list of approved open source licenses, educates about open source, and much more: https://opensource.org/membership
The Freedom of the Press Foundation protects whistleblowers and journalists with free software like SecureDrop
and education and advocacy: https://freedom.press/donate/
There are many more, but I have focused this thread on umbrella organizations that overlap with certain functions of the FSF: digital rights, anti-surveillance, education, fiscal sponsorship, approved software licenses.
Please reply with awesome orgs I've missed!
@ehashman Outreachy!
@JordiGH I think I covered them in my Conservancy toot :D
@ehashman Oh, oops!
@ehashman there's @fsfe
Free software Foundation Europe who clearly distanced themselves from the Fsf standpoints.
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.en.html
The Electronic Frontier Foundation advocates for privacy, security, and digital liberties: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-eff-today