{"id":13649,"date":"2024-02-09T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13649"},"modified":"2024-02-09T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T13:23:01","slug":"if-you-cant-contribute-donate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13649","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#8217;t contribute, donate!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Yesterday the blog of The Document Foundation (TDF), the German non-profit organisation behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.documentfoundation.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/08\/how-your-donations-helped-libreoffice-and-tdf-in-2023\/\">published a post<\/a> detailing how donations received during 2023 were used to continue development of the software and running the TDF and events<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The post included a handy graphic displaying the disbursement of funds visually, which is shown below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_13680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13680\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/02\/libreoffice_donations_in_2023-600x841.png\" alt=\"Graphic showing how donations were used in 2023\" width=\"600\" height=\"841\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13680\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic courtesy of The Document Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nYour &#8216;umble scribe would urge anyone who can to contribute their expertise, whether that&#8217;s writing or documentation, or helping to test <a href=\"https:\/\/dev-builds.libreoffice.org\/pre-releases\/deb\/x86_64\/\">pre-release versions<\/a>; and if you can&#8217;t manage that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/donate\/\">then donate!<\/a> \ud83d\ude00\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the blog of The Document Foundation (TDF), the German non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, published a post detailing how donations received during 2023 were used to continue development of the software and running the TDF and events The post included a handy graphic displaying the disbursement of funds visually, which is shown below. Your &#8216;umble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,30,9],"tags":[19,24,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-13649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13685,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions\/13685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}