[gandalfu]

Thanks for the link, just donated!

[malandrew]

Me too. This software is too important to not have someone dedicated to it full time.

I left a note that he (like the EFF and the ACLU) should have a recurring donation option, or at least an option to receive a once yearly email asking for a donation. There are many people that would happily go with a recurring donation if that option were available.

[jsonne]

A patreon would be a good option. I would happily give $1 a month

[ptaipale]

Yep, but on the other hand it is probably better to give $20 every two years. Less transaction cost.

[takluyver]

Watching the bar on the GnuPG homepage is pretty encouraging. Since the article was written, we've donated nearly €30k more. It looks like the problem was that people hadn't heard about it, not that we're all too selfish to donate.

I just chipped in $25.

Edit: Over €10k more in the hour since this comment. It's now 2/3 of the way to the funding target.

[Fuxy]

This was posted on HN 2 months before I donated £50 at that time so i wouldn't say it didn't get enough exposure.

It's just that it takes a lot of media attention to get you to your goal plus a lot of the donations a coming from regular developer who understand the importance of this instead of the big companies profiting from this software.

[acqq]

It still progresses, now (21:47 UTC) only 12% left to the target.

[jpatokal]

Target exceeded, and I don't think this even includes the EUR 100k from Stripe & Facebook.

[adl]

GPG is an integral part of the Open and Free internet.

Imagine all the workflows that depend on verified encryption signatures like Debian, Ubuntu, etc and that's just software distribution, not counting privacy issues like journalists, political dissidents, whistle blowers, etc using it for secure communications.

It was pretty easy to donate, took me less than 2 minutes. I encourage everybody that is able to make a donation, however small, every euro counts.

[tempestn]

Ditto. Was just talking with one of my employees this week about setting up encrypted email. Right now we use OTR chat for any sensitive stuff, but that's not always the most convenient channel. Like most others I had no idea this project was so under-funded.

[eitland]

This might be one of a few places where I will upvote "me too"-comments.

And, as others have pointed out it is easy and you can choose between cc and PayPal.

[clarkm]

This is one of the few instances that I've heard about something for the first time and immediately pulled out my credit card to donate.

[gcv]

I donated last year, and just donated again.

Really happy to see that this post on HN has traction, and delighted to watch the counter go up. GPG and other security projects need a way better tech PR push.

[eterm]

(me too)

Interesting to see more people have donated so far in 2015 than the whole of 2014.

[jgmmo]

Me too.

[64598u3wieodsk]

Me too! 25EUR. Many thanks for bringing this to my attention

[masmullin]

Me too!