Hi @chfkch, Mobifree is part of the #NextGenerationInternet initiative* and there are other programmes as well. If you think your project does not fit Mobifree perhaps look at the NGI0 Commons Fund which has a broad scope.
See: https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/
If you're unsure which fund to pick, choose the open call and mention you are okay with your proposal being allocated to the most suitable fund. https://nlnet.nl/propose/
Hey @newhinton what kind of questions do you have? Or, put an other way, what kind of information would help you to get a better idea? We'd be happy to try and provide it. @fdroidorg
Hi @newhinton. That is a quite common situation in the NGI programmes: people/communities who have done a project on a voluntary basis. One of the aims of the NGI Zero grants is to give them well-deserved support. So your situation applies well to the NGI programmes.
@newhinton I like your idea of asking someone who has applied for a grant to tell about their experience for the benefit of others. Will look into arranging that.
And yes, the money is free for you to allocate. It takes the form of a donation: you get the money, it is yours and you decide what to do with it.
So it's up to you including your example of working a day less to have more time for your project.
@newhinton The grant is not paid in full. Instead you divide your project in milestones and allocate an amount to it. Once you reach the milestone you send in an request for payment. So for instance: You divide your project in milestones A, B, C and D. And you allocate amount € X to milestone A. Once you have milestone A finished, you request the payment for it and move on to milestone B.
@newhinton To decide what amount to allocate to milestone A a much used method is: number of hours you think it will take times an hourly rate. You can write it down like that in the application.
And about your hesitation to apply for a grant for something you have done for free, don't hesitate. FLOS is free as in libre not gratis. One of the points of the Next Generation Internet is to support the enormous efforts of those dedicated to Free Libre Open Source.
@newhinton Here is an example of the Memorandum of Understanding that would be drawn up if your application is selected. It gives you an idea of how to think about formulating milestones. https://nlnet.nl/foundation/request/sample_MoU.pdf
Hope you will apply! The proposal form is deliberately simple so you don't have to waste much time on it. I recommend just giving it a shot and apply for June 1. There will be more open calls but there's no time like the present :). https://nlnet.nl/propose/
My fellow fedizens, i have done it.
I have applied #BitRitter to https://nlnet.nl/propose/ in the category "Open Call". Well at least 2 features i want to implement.
Wish me luck.
If you have an awesome Mobile FOSS Project, maybe you want to apply too? Deadline is 2024-06-01 so this friday. Application process took me about half an hour, so that's doable.
@chfkch That is great to hear! And happy to learn that the application process did not take you a lot of time. That is precisely what we hope: not to waste anyone's time.
Come and meet the 41 projects which will receive funding in the latest round of the #NGI0 Entrust and NGI0 Core programs.
We want to thank all the people/teams/communities behind these free and open source projects for their important contribution to a trustworthy, resilient, open internet.
Squishy
O-ESD: Open-hardware for ElectroStatic Discharge testing
openCologne
BrailleRAP
FPGA Fault Injection Testing
S-SATA for openXC7
Redox Flow Battery
WWW SCION
Cell broadcast support for the Linux Mobile Stack
CAKE-MAINT
Distributed GNU Shepherd
Renderling
Elliptic curve encryption speed-up using SIMD
Pre-Scheme
ELF tools in Rust
GPGPU Playground
WebXDC XMPP
RETETRA3
Enhancing vula with IPv6 and REUNION rendezvous
DeviceCode
Reproducible-openSUSE
The MacBook Liberation Project
CRAVEX