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John Wiseman

Donate to support my work

What I do

For many years I've written open source software. Recently I've been focusing on aviation; specifically tracking aircraft and analyzing their behavior.

Some highlights:

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Cory Doctorow wrote a very nice twitter thread said about my work. Here are a couple things he said:

Why I need money & what I'll do with it

I've always funded this work myself, but my finances took a significant hit last year when I was furloughed without pay for 4 months. So I am once again asking for your financial support (actually I've never done this before). If you want to support the work I'm doing, here's what your donation will pay for, in order of priority:

  1. Additional development work.
  2. Possibly hosting for the Advisory Circular bots and their geo database.

For #1, projects I'm either already working on or considering include the following:

Re: #2, the bots and geo database are currently on an old PC sitting under my desk at home. Right at toddler height. It might be nice to host them somewhere more reliable, and look into giving access to the planet-wide geo database to people doing other, similar projects (such as the other people running their own Advisory Circular bots).

Ways to donate

I’ve spent hundreds of hours in development work trying to bring the public this essential information for free. I'd like to continue this work, both supporting existing projects and implementing new ideas.

If you would like to support this effort and help keep the servers running, please donate below. You can give a one-time donation with PayPal, Venmo, or Bitcoin; or you can sign up for a a recurring donation with PayPal.

Thanks for your help!
John Wiseman

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