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April is unique for its changeable weather, but no matter whether it rains or shines, today is the fifteenth, so it’s time to choose who we want to support this month. The decision who receives April’s donations were up to Krzysiek Pisera.

We mostly do web development, and JavaScript is one of the languages we use most frequently. Krzysiek has decided we should support the JS Foundation, which oversees a number of JavaScript projects. The foundation was established last October, following the merger of the jQuery Foundation and the Dojo Foundation. The most popular projects it maintains include jQuery, Dojo Toolkit, Grunt and ESLint. The latter has proven particularly useful in our everyday work on large JavaScript projects.

Our other donation goes to Patryk Arkita from Zgierz, Krzysiek’s home town. Patryk needs treatment due to a complicated heart condition. We wish him the best of luck and send our warmest thoughts, and encourage the readers of our blog to support Patryk and the JS Foundation as well.

Spring is coming fast – it is already the middle of March. This means it’s time to provide financial support for another open source project and for somebody who needs help. This time Dawid Jancen makes the choices.

The first of the March donations goes to the Linux Foundation, which has been working since 2000 to support the development of Linux, and they have already received a donation from us back in July 2015. Most of our team uses Linux on their own desk computers and laptops, as well as the servers for the projects we work on – that’s why this foundation’s activity is close to our hearts. We send our regards to them all, wishing them good luck in the further development of the operating system with the penguin mascot!

This month we are also helping Karolina Pastwa from Tczew. While Dawid and Karolina have never met, they do have mutual friends, and hence his decision to support her. She suffers from a neuroendocrine tumour of the small intestine. Karolina fights for health, not just for herself but also for her son. Karolina, please accept our regards; we are keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that your whole family can be healthy.

Frost and winter have not stood in our way in designating the next monthly beneficiaries of our financial assistance. In February, Tomek Antosik held the honourable function of making the selection.

The open source project that Tomek has decided to distinguish is Redmine, a web-based project management system released under the GPL license. Redmine has for many years been an essential tool in the work of our entire team, so it appears as our choice for the third time. As always, we would like to thank the developers for this great tool and wish them good luck in their further work on its development.

We are also providing support for Kubuś Zwiech. A multi-organ dysfunction resulting from congenital metabolic disease means that Kubuś requires specialized help, motor rehabilitation, neurological speech therapy treatments and sensory integration. Thanks to his hard work and that of his parents, an improvement has been observed in his motor development and muscle tension. His parents are collecting money to continue his rehabilitation – and we are glad that we can help even a little bit. We are sending hugs to you, Kubuś, and to your parents, as well as keeping our fingers crossed and wishing you the soonest possible effects of the treatments, plus much strength in your fight against the disease.

The new year has begun, so it is time for the January instalment of our monthly financial support campaign for open-source projects and charities. This time the beneficiaries were selected by Marcin Tabaka.

On his initiative, we decided to support a project called Laravel DataTables, which is (as is often the case) used by some of our team in their everyday work. It is a useful add-on to the PHP framework, and it facilitates use of the jQuery DataTables plugin in various web applications. In our case, it is used in the implementation of a control panel for our proprietary CMS system. Thanks and regards to the developers!

We have also made a donation through Siepomaga.pl to Mikołaj Zalega, who suffers from a rare condition called TRAPS. The aim is to buy the drugs that will give this lad a chance of avoiding recurrent severe fevers in the future. Mikołaj, we wish you much luck in persevering in your struggle for health. Wishing you and your parents all the best.