Tag: donations

ListenBrainz donor flairs

We’re shaking with excitement! Flipping with energy! Anaglyphing with… something. These are just some of the username effects (flair) you can now show off if you are a ListenBrainz donor:

Static effects, animations and mouseover animations, all are unlocked for a month when you donate $5. Paying more will stack further months of flair.

Check out the different effects in your settings page, and then head to the donation page to unlock them and help us pay for our server costs and keep all that lovely data flowing. If you can’t afford this cost, don’t worry! Your presence is always enough. Thank you for being part of this project and this community.

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Supporting upstream open source projects

For many years the MetaBrainz Foundation has wanted to directly support some of the upstream open source projects we use for development. These upstream projects are used behind the scenes by one or more MetaBrainz projects. They often don’t have individual users, and many lack the visibility for getting other funding.

We are starting with a small donation of $1,001, annually. These will be one-time donations to 13 projects, $77 each. The total amount and the list of projects (see below) will be revised every year.

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Thank you for your continued support, Google!

We’ve recently received our annual $30,000 support from Google. The brings the total amount donated by Google’s Open Source Programs Office to us to over $470,000 — hopefully next year we’ll cross the half million dollar threshold!

I can’t quite express my gratitude for this level of support! Without Google’s help, especially early on, MetaBrainz may never have made it to sustainability. Google has helped us in a number of ways, including Google Code-In and Summer of Code — all of these forms of support have shaped our organization quite heavily over the past 15 or so years.

Thank you to Google and everyone at the Google Open Source Programs Office — we truly appreciate your support over the years!