Post B8sBwMdfvOidER7T8a by danirabbit@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #B8sBwMdfvOidER7T8a by danirabbit@mastodon.online
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       It’s my birthday! I have a big favor to ask 🙏🏼 This year has been especially financially challenging. Long story short, if everyone who downloaded @elementary OS this year paid just $1, I’d be up some $30,000 but alas I’m down about $11,000 and I’m really concerned about making ends meet until the release of OS 9.If you feel inclined to help me out, I’d really appreciate it if you’d buy a copy of my AI-free Open Source OS or otherwise help with funding via this page: https://elementary.io/get-involved#funding
       
 (DIR) Post #B8sBwNLdHxsfQlgZea by danirabbit@mastodon.online
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       If you’ve never heard of elementary before, it’s an open source operating system project I started in 2007 fresh out of high school. I started my journey wanting to bring more human centered design to the Linux desktop and over the years have evolved that mission to center values like inclusive design, ethical funding models, privacy, consent, and decentralizationhttps://mastodon.social/@elementary/110017598054728533
       
 (DIR) Post #B8sBwNoLZCqirp7VPU by danirabbit@mastodon.online
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       Since coming out as queer publicly I’ve experienced a number of social and financial setbacks. Our sales have never recovered. I’ve faced a lot of online harassment. Some contributors left our community. And the political climate continues to worsen for folks like me. It’s been rough. This year especially I’ve been facing the limits of my own disability; I’ve been diagnosed with complex PTSD, generalized anxiety, and major depression and was hospitalized for a week just last month
       
 (DIR) Post #B8sBwOHPp86MJyiiie by danirabbit@mastodon.online
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       My operating budget for elementary for the past few years has been about $75k USD. That includes my total salary which is my only source of income, plus hosting costs, overhead costs like payroll accounting and tax prep, hardware costs and what little I can spare for upstream projects and community sponsorships. Where I live this puts me under the poverty line. And unfortunately my expenses keep going up with healthcare credits gone and rents rising. I’ve been dipping into savings a lot
       
 (DIR) Post #B8sBwOkq3jdZnEUDa4 by danirabbit@mastodon.online
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       This is a total labor of love for me and I’m really proud of the work that the community I’ve built has done. Both inside of elementary OS and our impact on the wider open source ecosystem and the kinds of things we’ve advocated for and been a part of. Any little bit of help that you can offer to keep this sustainable for me is vastly appreciated. Thank you so so much 🩷🩷🩷
       
 (DIR) Post #B8t0UvXxdkMF3C7ZIm by bugaevc@floss.social
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       @danirabbit happy birthday!