Introducing The Fellowship for Maintainers – Sovereign Tech Fund(sovereigntechfund.de) |
Introducing The Fellowship for Maintainers – Sovereign Tech Fund(sovereigntechfund.de) |
Seriously, you have a dozen or so folks on staff, and you just can't decide which OSS programs are most worthy of funding without making the maintainers jump through hoops?
I know, it's a German government initiative, it has to happen that way, but Jeebus. My home country continues to fail at tech.
Meanwhile, Google did a security review of my ~4,500 Go library a few years back, and that process was significantly more effort. The entire thing was incredibly bureaucracy-heavy, time-consuming (two hour-long meetings that didn't tell me anything), and generally beyond ridiculous.
Anyway, I don't know about this initiative as I never even heard from them before today, but "get grant" does not automatically means "jump through hoops" or other hassle.
And in the end, you do need to send money to people actually wanting to receive it and can do something useful with it. You can't "just" send money to random projects.
It's not like Germany is unique in this respect: grants in the US are the same way. And venture capital--the "market efficient" solution--is far more onerous to obtain.
then of course if they can use the money collected from dma offenders and have that fund open source stuff.
that way europe doesn't get squeezed on both sides by usa and china.