We closed out March at $1,000 for our writers and are $154 into April’s $1,000 target — your support keeps FOSS Force independent and our coverage coming.
Last week in this column, we were only $34 away from meeting our $1,000 monthly goal for March.
Since the end of the month was nearly three days away at the time, that seemed easy peasy, and I figured we’d be getting an early start on raising funds to meet our April goal. I’m happy to say we made it, but it took a minute. By that I mean it was late in the day on March 31 when we finally crossed the line, but we finished the month having raised the $1,000 we needed to pay our writers for their efforts during March.
That’s what I get, I think, for thinking it was going to be easy peasy.
So far in April, the fundraiser is going pretty good. Thanks to the generosity of our site’s readers — which are people like you — this month’s donations stand at $154, which means we only have to raise something like $34 daily to meet our goal by month’s end.
If you’re just joining the conversation: these monthly goals are mini goals for our FOSS Force 2026 Independence Drive, which has an overall goal of raising $12,000, which is what it currently costs to pay our writers for a year. We’ve been breaking that larger amount down into more digestible $1,000 monthly bite-sized chunks. Since we began the drive near the end of January, we’ve raised a total of $2,154, which means that your donations paid our writers for the work they did in February and March, and we’re now $154 into collecting what we need for April.
Ideally, I’d like for us to raise the funds as quickly as possible, so I can put more time into developing our sponsorship programs, which I told you about during last week’s update on our fundraising efforts.
But I’m also happy to take the slow road, so long as we can raise at least $1,000 monthly to keep our writers paid. Please know that I continue to appreciate each and every donation you make, no matter how small or large the amount. Every $5 donation brings us $5 closer to meeting our funding goals. Larger donations only help get us there quicker.
I’ve been noticing that some of you have been making several small donations. I’d like to remind you that when you make your donation, you can choose to make it a monthly donation if you wish, which will not only save you the hassle of having to go through the process numerous times, it’ll help us anticipate our income for the upcoming months.
What Your Donation Supports
This week our coverage of Linux and open source included:
- Reportage of Martin Wimpress’s announcement that he’s looking for someone to replace him as the lead developer at Ubuntu MATE, the popular Linux distro he started 12 years ago.
- A guest article by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of Rocky Linux, and founder and CEO of CIQ, sounding the alarm that AI can now read and find vulnerabilities in binary code, and explaining the security issues that brings into play.
- The release of a users’ guide for the latest and greatest version of LibreOffice Calc.
- News that a port of Gentoo is now available using Hurd, the operating system kernel that the Gnu project has been developing since 1990.
- Reviews with screenshots of Maple Linux, a Debian-based distro out of Canada, and Hyprland WM, a highly configurable window manager.
If you think that our reporting on Linux and open source is valuable, please contribute what you can to our FOSS Force 2026 Independence Drive.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
Be First to Comment