[balloob]

We don't want to come to rely on donations and have to show Wikipedia-style beg banners in our app (I would personally hate to see that myself).

So with the limited resources that we have, we currently only consider bigger donations valued $10k or more. We've had monetary donations from DuckDuckGo and Espressif so far.

[magicalhippo]

I didn't get the begging feeling from using Blender, though it has been some years ago. IIRC they focused on donations for specific features and showpieces like their movies.

As a very happy Home Assistant user, hopefully you can manage something similar so you have enough money to stay afloat and keep up the good work.

[bonzini]

Maybe you could allow people to pay more for Nabu Casa?

[Blankono]

beg banners or awareness campaign.

I never had issues with that.