One of the most important reasons for Nostr's rapid development is that jack (npub1sg6…f63m) generously donated to establish the OpenSats (npub10pe…n34f) open source fund. Like many developers, I joined the ranks of Nostr developers because of Jack's call. Jack solved the problem that developers were most worried about, which was to establish Opensats to provide future developers with sustainable development funding support.
Opensats has become a semi-official symbol of Nostr. However, the board of directors of Opensats does not abide by the rules they have announced. Instead, they refuse funding based on a clause that is not in the funding rules at all. It is the GitHub active statistics table. They prefer to fund projects that no one has heard of or used, but whose GitHub statistics tables are beautiful. They will not review your code that you have put a lot of work into, nor will they use your product. They refuse you just because the statistics table is not active. If this is one of the Opensats funding rules, please add this rule to the funding rules. And make it public on the Opensats website.
Opensats should consider that many infrastructure operations do not need to update GitHub every day. And they have a lot of work to do. They also need funds to support their continued operations. You can also formulate separate funding rules for infrastructure operation developers. So that they can apply for funds better.
I love Nostr, and I hope Nostr will get better and better. ODELL (npub1qny…95gx) Gigi (npub1der…xzpc) NVK (npub1az9…m8y8) 💜🫂🫡
#Nostr #Opensats
I have never asked for a donation but here it goes:nostr:note1mze26qj0rgrmr66kgl2xs9cmyexk7y5jw5nmteu3jh2dspxxgkqqajj2hp
I host 4 relays now completely for free, they will always be free, on top of doing thousands of hours of open source work. I've never received a grant, I'm running purely on passion and principles here.
If you are enjoying my relays (WoT, Haven, Algo) - please consider making a donation to help cover the costs of my servers and bandwidth - the costs really add up 🫂🙏
/end e-begging
I was shocked. #[0] #[1] #[2] #[3] #[4]nostr:note1eqrqwalzhgs2rt2ynfen9jatnhp4xvtddvam7wuyr760t3zquypq0ch32p
After waiting for a long few months for #[5] 's application for #[6] funding, I received an email from opensats rejecting Freerse's application for development funding.
I didn't expect Freerse would not be funded by opensats. I really want to build a simple and easy-to-use Bitcoin social payment client for Nostr. It is also liked by many Nostr users. I spent 1 and a half years building Freerse and sold my own Bitcoin. Why are so many clients that no one uses or even hears of getting funded? And Freerse can't get funding. There are also some people who participated in Nostr construction for a short time and left after getting funding, while people like us who have been building for Nostr can't get funding. I want to know the reason for not being funded? How can I improve it?
The reply received was:
“The Board noted that there has been very little Github activity on the project, including zero activity in the past few months. Please feel free to reapply in the future if you are actively working on the project.
Building up a substantial amount of proof of work is important for applications.”
I was shocked again.
Before applying for opensats, we had built Freerse for a year and a half. It was my first time to build an open source project. It was only because opensats required open source that we put the Freerse code on GitHub. When applying for opensats funding, my own funds had run out. I built Freerse, but I was just a product designer, not a programmer. I had no way to pay the programmer's salary. During the months of waiting for opensats funding, I could only pay for the maintenance of the server and the usual bug fixes. I have been waiting for the funding review of opensats to get the funds to continue building Freerse. I need to earn money to support myself in these months. After waiting for a few months. What I got was the board's disregard for the work we spent more than a year and money to build Freerse. Ignoring the love of Nostr users for Freerse. Ignoring our efforts to keep the Zap function of Nostr's posts on iOS, and fighting with Apple for two months through the App Store regulations in exchange for the Nostr iOS client being able to keep the Zap function of posts.
Ironically. The OpenSats board said that they want to see the updates to our github as proof of work for the past few months we have been waiting to apply for funding. Isn't our already built client our proof of work? Does the board only look at the surface? Haven't the board members used our client? Can't we apply for OpenSats funding for our already completed client?
Freerse's now completed client function is our proof of work. Freerse is fully qualified to receive funding from OpenSats. Please consider it carefully. We want to continue building for Nostr and create a simple and easy-to-use Bitcoin social payment client. Please fund us and we will continue to build.
https://freerse.com
