Contribute to Contributors

The holidays can be a trying time of year for everyone, with all the gift buying and stress and all. I wanted to take this time to make a plea. The open source software that all of us use is powered by volunteers! Show them your support by donating! I'm compiling a list here of prominent contributors to donate to, and I strongly urge you to consider saying "thank you" to people who work hard to give you the tools and knowledge that you use every day! So, without anything further:

• Aaron Winborn - Long-Time Drupal Contributor: Donation Page
• Andrei Zmievski - Memcached Maintainer and PHP Maintainer- Amazon Wishlist
• Anthony Ferrara - Me!!! - Amazon Wishlist
• Chris Hartjes - The Grumpy Programmer (and DevHell Podcaster) - Amazon Wishlist
• Derick Rethans - XDebug Author and PHP Maintainer- Amazon Wishlist
• Ed Finkler - The Funkatron (and DevHell Podcaster) - Amazon Wishlist
• Johannes Schlüter - PHP Maintainer - Amazon Wishlist
• Louis Cordova - Symfony Contributor - Donate
• Mike Babker - Joomla Extension Developer - Paypal Donate
• Rafael Dohms - Frequent Speaker - Amazon Wishlist
• Rasmus Lerdorf - Founder of the PHP project - Amazon Wishlist
• Sebastian Bergmann - PHPUnit Author - Amazon Wishlist

Or, if donating to individuals isn't your thing (or you want to do more), there are plenty of charities that could use your help (here are only a few ideas):

• Cancer Research Institute (US Based Charity)
• Children's Health Fund (US Based Charity)
• The American Red Cross (US Based Charity)
• Together For Short Lives (UK Based Charity)

And other organizations (not exactly charities) that are worth while donating to:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Free Software Foundation

Who did I miss? If you know someone (or a worth-while charity) that I missed, either reply in a comment, or shoot me an email (ircmaxell [at] php [dot] net) and I'll add them to the list...