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I am looking for an Open Source Chat Platform for around 1k non-tech users. I thought it is easier on the market...

Matrix: For non-tech end users still quite complicated when dealing with keys, encryption, etc

Rocketchat: Moved a lot of features to the enterprise version and the community edition is not really sufficient for such a use case

Mattermost: Moved some features to enterprise as well and the clients (especially Android) still encounter performance problems (e.g. startuptime of several seconds)

Do you know any good alternatives?

I am looking for a simple image database to manage around 10k images and its (custom) metadata. Most of the digital asset management solutions are super complicated, offer workflows, are usually quite expensive, and are not very intuitive.

Any recommendations what I could use. (open source welcome, but SaaS also fine). Thanks a lot!

Let's assume you contribute to Open Source from time to time and take a look at your GitHub timeline which looks quite empty, such as this one [1]. Valuable contributions, but demotivating on a wall. This is quite bad because Open Source can also benefit from those contributors and it would be very nice to find a good way of visualising less contributions in a awesome looking and motivating graph. Any ideas for that?

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExlFmmTWEAIUP0J?format=jpg&name=medium

Disclaimer/Why do I ask this: I am one of the founders of https://codeprints.dev and we sell custom prints of GitHub timelines. We encountered that many people are interested in our prints because they are also proud of their work. We got a lot of feedback that such a print can be very motivating. Unfortunately, if you have less contributions, the timeline looks quite empty and obviously, people don't want to put empty prints on their walls.

Let's consider I am a company and I want to donate 1000$ for Open Source projects and Open Source libraries as I am using them heavily. What can I do?

Option 1: Pick my favorite project and send them 1000$ -> simple but only one project benefits from my donation Option 1: Find projects or libs I am using and accept donations, use their donation systems, distribute the 1000$ -> very time consuming and cumbersome, I have to use different systems, but can support multiple projects. Unfortunately, the donation for one project will be quite small as it is just a fraction of the donation of 1000$.

Do you know any platforms or good solutions to distribute the 1000$ or support Open Source so that the 1000$ is used as effectively as possible?