Mission
The 10k Wall is a homage to The Million Dollar Homepage with two differences: the goal is €10000 instead of a million, and every euro raised is allocated, in public, to free software.
How it works
- The wall is a 1,000×1,000 grid — 1,000,000 pixels in total.
- Each pixel costs €0.01. The minimum purchase is 100 pixels (€1.00) so Stripe fees don’t eat the donation.
- Buyers pick a colour, an optional link, and an optional tooltip. Pixels are non-refundable and stay up forever (or until I stop paying the hosting bill).
- Payments go through Stripe. The site never sees your card details.
Where the money goes
Every euro raised lands in one of three buckets. Donations are logged on the transparency page with proof links whenever possible.
Half of every euro raised is donated to the FSFE, which advocates for free software across Europe.
Funds development, hosting and maintenance of the open-source projects published under github.com/cesp99.
Stripe fees, Supabase hosting and the domain. Anything left over rolls into the next OSS allocation.
Why the FSFE?
The Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit that has been defending the rights of free-software users in Europe for more than two decades — through campaigns like “Public Money? Public Code!” and Router Freedom, by lobbying for software interoperability, and by maintaining the REUSE specification many open-source projects rely on. They’re a small team that punches well above their weight, and they’re funded almost entirely by donations.
And the rest of the budget?
It funds the open-source side projects I publish on github.com/cesp99 — small command-line utilities, web tools, and infrastructure I run for myself and others. The remainder pays for Stripe fees, the Supabase tier, and the domain. Anything left over rolls into the next OSS allocation.