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avra

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FLOSS/fund - Opportunity to finance some development of FreePascal and Lazarus
« on: October 27, 2024, 11:06:45 pm »
https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/

That is a new dedicated fund aimed at providing financial assistance to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS) projects globally, with an annual commitment of $1 million. They explicitly mentioned programming languages and code editors, so we should take a shot.
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Re: FLOSS/fund - Opportunity to finance some development of FreePascal and Lazarus
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2024, 08:48:50 am »
Quote from: avra on October 27, 2024, 11:06:45 pm
https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/

In particular, this fragment from the beginning of the article is very telling:

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That said, Python libraries raising massive amounts of VC funding in quick time does not look like a healthy trend.

Quote from: avra on October 27, 2024, 11:06:45 pm
That is a new dedicated fund aimed at providing financial assistance to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS/FLOSS) projects globally, with an annual commitment of $1 million. They explicitly mentioned programming languages and code editors, so we should take a shot.

It certainly won't hurt to try.

P.S. I noticed a significant slowdown in page loading when reading, logging in, and posting.
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