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OpenSats is in part funded by the general public – donations are solicited from everyone, and accepted via BTC and fiat. That's one reason why grants are made public: it'd be absurd for OpenSats to be spending money without disclosing who is getting it.
But it's also absurd if the _rejected_ applications are entirely private too. Which is the status quo. Funders should have some idea of what they could have spent money on, and didn't.
All I did was reveal two rejected applications. If that is enough to constitue serious drama, you should rethink what you're doing...
GM
OpenSats (npub10pe…n34f) is a unpaid 100% passthrough volunteer organization.
The whole team genuinely cares about the mission.
We have extremely very diverse opinions and backgrounds and very limited operational resources for the volume of applications.
No application is decided by a single person. We also have committee of also volunteer peers who also opine and vote. Once the committee votes with soft ACKs. We have a minimum of 5 positive votes by the board for approval policy.
Everyone and their applications are considered! But we are not going to fund everything. After careful volunteer time is used for reviews a vote is made.
There are many orgs with different methods.
No one is entitled to be funded. Pro tip, be graceful. Aside from being extremely unprofessional to shit on OpenSats in public, you are shitting on unpaid ppl who are trying to do their best and are not perfect. We simply don't have the time and resources (and shouldn't waste money) on giving each and everyone a very detailed feedback. we are talking about hundreds of applications and a dozen ppl here.
Criticism is very much always welcomed and encouraged. We need to know what we can do better.
If you truly care about improving, send a fucking EMAIL. Bitching in public only hurts the ppl who are doing the work.
The FOSS funding will continue until freedom improves ✌️
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