My guess is a corporate matching gift on employee contributions.
A single employee donated and did the paperwork to get matching funds.
The first time I looked into this, I thought it was fake, but turns out I was checking the wrong year.
- 2023: $250–$499
- 2022: $1,000–$4,999
- 2021: $1,000–$4,999
- 2020: $250–$499
- 2019: $1,000–$4,999
- 2018: $1,000–$4,999
I appreciate them donating at all, but that’s about the price of one Macbook per year - my girlfriend’s most recent Macbook was $5,500
Edit: It looks like these donations may come from Apple matching donations (pdf warning)
Yeah the matching donations was the obvious answer. It’s honestly a decent way to do charity as a company (obviously bigger ticket contributions are good, too), because it rewards them for their choices by increasing their value, and your contributions are going places that have some support behind them from your employees. Finding worthwhile causes that don’t get money has value, but it’s really hard and expensive to do.
And yet it is still a prevalent idea in FOSS that open sourcing without restrictions on corporate use will karma back to you positively somehow.
Non-corporate FOSS should be way more popular.
This has no right to be that funny.
Seems appropriate for a generous pizza. You developers love pizza, right?
Bold of you to assume they went for the $24 end of that range instead of the $5 end.
Also Chevron.
The things a 2 trillion dollars company can afford.
