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In his reflections, Brewster Kahle mentions his goal of creating “a library available to anybody, anywhere in the world.” He doesn’t mention, though, the costs

In his reflections, Brewster Kahle mentions his goal of creating “a library available to anybody, anywhere in the world.” He doesn’t mention, though, the costs of making that library available to the world for free or the fact that the Internet Archive accepts donations. So I will: https://archive.org/donate/ https://archive.org/donate/

walterbell 5y ago
Anyone know the relative budgets/donations/staff of Wikipedia vs. Archive.org?
- tkgally 5y ago
  ProPublica has a database of tax filing information for nonprofits. Internet Archive: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943242767 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943... Wikimedia Foundation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... Mozilla Foundation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/43091431 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/430...
  - jdc 5y ago
    Wow, never thought I'd see Wikimedia at more than 4x the budget of Mozilla!
    - feudalism 5y ago
      It's how Katherine Maher funds her trips to exotic locations.
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]
    - dkdk8283 5y ago
      That’s Mozilla Foundation, not Mozilla Corporation. Corp has way more revenue.
raybb 5y ago
Donations are fantastic but if you have engineering (or project management, design, etc) skills spending just 1 hour a week contributing to their open source goes a very long way! Open Library in particular has a very active repo with lots of volunteers, a weekly community call, and a rather accessible codebase. https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary If anyone knows webpack well would LOVE to have this dev-facing issue resolve to auto reload CSS https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4955 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4955
- dailyanchovy 5y ago
  Alright, I'm new to pull requests but I had a go at it! https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/5451 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/5451
state_less 5y ago
I sent my bones or clams or whatever you call them. Will send moore when I have more and when I've learned to be more generous. It's good to know that you're near Internet Archive. But, oh, what a wonderful feeling Just to know that you are near Sets my a heart a-reeling From my toes up to my ears -Bob Dylan, The man in me
- mkaufman 5y ago
  state_less sounds like a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever.
  - state_less 5y ago
    Little Lebowski Urban Achievers - inner city children of promise but without the necessary means for a - necessary means for a higher education. So Mr Lebowski is committed to sending all of them to college.

walterbell 5y ago

Anyone know the relative budgets/donations/staff of Wikipedia vs. Archive.org?

tkgally 5y ago
ProPublica has a database of tax filing information for nonprofits. Internet Archive: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943242767 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943... Wikimedia Foundation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... Mozilla Foundation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/43091431 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/430...
- jdc 5y ago
  Wow, never thought I'd see Wikimedia at more than 4x the budget of Mozilla!
  - feudalism 5y ago
    It's how Katherine Maher funds her trips to exotic locations.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - dkdk8283 5y ago
    That’s Mozilla Foundation, not Mozilla Corporation. Corp has way more revenue.

raybb 5y ago

Donations are fantastic but if you have engineering (or project management, design, etc) skills spending just 1 hour a week contributing to their open source goes a very long way! Open Library in particular has a very active repo with lots of volunteers, a weekly community call, and a rather accessible codebase. https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary If anyone knows webpack well would LOVE to have this dev-facing issue resolve to auto reload CSS https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4955 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4955

dailyanchovy 5y ago
Alright, I'm new to pull requests but I had a go at it! https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/5451 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/5451

state_less 5y ago

I sent my bones or clams or whatever you call them. Will send moore when I have more and when I've learned to be more generous. It's good to know that you're near Internet Archive. But, oh, what a wonderful feeling Just to know that you are near Sets my a heart a-reeling From my toes up to my ears -Bob Dylan, The man in me

mkaufman 5y ago
state_less sounds like a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever.
- state_less 5y ago
  Little Lebowski Urban Achievers - inner city children of promise but without the necessary means for a - necessary means for a higher education. So Mr Lebowski is committed to sending all of them to college.