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Funding for FOSS projects, needs funding.json file in Gitlab

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Christo Crause
to Alexey T.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM Alexey T. via fpc-pascal <

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wrote: 15 Oct news at Hacker News: https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/ They pay 1M $ per year, all FPC needs to apply is the funding.json in the repo. And then submit via online form. Format of the JSON schema is described there. https://floss.fund/funding-manifest/

Nice find! The core teams seem mostly happy with the status quo - my uninformed view is that they are not interested in project management. Perhaps the Lazarus/FPC Foundation is better geared to manage funding and coordinate targeted development of features?

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Christo Crause
Christo Crause wrote 15 lines
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM Alexey T. via fpc-pascal < > wrote: > 15 Oct news at Hacker News: > https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/ > They pay 1M $ per year, all FPC needs to apply is the funding.json in > the repo. And then submit via online form. > Format of the JSON schema is described there. > https://floss.fund/funding-manifest/ > Nice find! The core teams seem mostly happy with the status quo - my uninformed view is that they are not interested in project management. Perhaps the Lazarus/FPC Foundation is better geared to manage funding and coordinate targeted development of features?

That is the purpose of the foundation.

I was planning to look at the funding manifest this weekend...

Michael.

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