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In the last few years, we all saw funding issues with FOSS. I've taken the habit to donate ~ 20 euros per month to diverse projects based on how interesting I find them or how I would like to show my support. The company, I currently work for, uses benevity  to double some of my donations, depending on whom I'm giving to. I started recording this in the middle of the year in order to share with the rest of the world. Here's what/when/how with or without comments : 29/04/2025 - 20 € - Dotclear - a blogging platform I use. 02/06/2025 - 20 € - Tor - because privacy matters 27/06/2025 - 20 € - Fosdem - the best OSS conference in Europe. 28/07/2025 - 20 € - Apache Software Foundation - We need servers side projects 01/09/2025 - 20 € - Internet Archive - We need to preserve our digital world 02/12/2025 - 05 € - NetBSD - because it runs on almost everything and diversity is good 02/12/2025 - 20 € - Signal - because privacy matters 02/12/2025 - 20 € - Wikipedia - because sharin...

I've been working since 2009 full remote. I've changed jobs twice, I've moved from one country to another one while being full remote. Here are some thoughts, tips and tricks to make your life easier if you end up working remotely.  During this time I have lived in four places, and worked differently in these places I'll start be describing each of them and how I managed to work, what was good, bad and ugly. My apartment - I had a room with a desk, but I was living alone. I could organize my workspace the way I wanted without impeding on other people potentially living with me.  As I started working remote, setting limits and boundaries was hard. Not working was easy but made my guilt go high, so I would end catching up. I remember one Friday not working and then guilt making me work for the whole weekend. In order to manage my new way of life, I created a schedule. At 7, I would get up, by 7:30 I would have breakfast and so on. Issue was stopping in the evening. I was ...