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Just donated to KDE and adopted Okular, their really nice PDF reader, which I use on a daily basis <3
Thanks for working on a good FOSS desktop experience, I hope this helps :D

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
#kde #fundraiser #donations #SupportGoodPeople #AdoptAnApp #okular

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What does it mean to "adopt" Okular? Never heard of this before. Also, thank you for supporting our favorite DE.

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can "adopt" one of several KDE apps if you donate 50 usd/eur or more. Your name will be listed on the app's webpage until April 2025. Other than that it's just a donation with a fancy name.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago
[–] tmpod@masto.pt 1 points 2 months ago

@penquin :3
"Adopting" is the term they're using for supporting a specific app in their latest fundraiser. If you donate over a certain amount, you can chose an app and sort of "sponsor" it more directly, instead of being a more generic KDE donation. As far as I understand, though, they only allow 5 adopters per app (KDE Connect was rightfully filled up almost instantly lol). Check their page: https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

[–] jlow 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you adopt any KDE app? When I looked there were only three or four I never use, some never heard of ...

[–] tmpod@masto.pt 2 points 2 months ago

@jlow They're adding more apps as others get filled up (only 5 adopters per app, as far as I understand). Okular was added recently with some others.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, I wish I was in a good place financially to donate to everything I use... There are so many great KDE projects, and non-kde FOSS projects too! One day...

Okular, KDE connect, plasma, krita, freecad, libre office, KiCAD, local send, antennapod, gadgetbridge, immich, paperless, bookstack, home assistant & esphome, leantime... The list goes on, but even if I only gave 5€ per month to each, that would be more than 75€ per month and that is way above my budget with our renovation costs.

Not even to mention the good YouTube creators too! Maybe if I get a bonus at the end of this year I can spare 150€ or so.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

KDE, GNOME, Linux etc. all help by having one big foundation for loads of projects. It would be nice to have some foundations for other projects that don't/can't fill those particular niches.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Nice! they updated the date on the little medal :) I donated 20EUR a while back to support their awesome work with KDE 6 and the general Wayland efforts.

[–] Nithanim@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I do hate that they made me donate twice by adding other apps later 😅