Aral Balkan
Bloody hell, someone just made a €1,000 donation to Small Technology Foundation.
Umm, thank you, whomever you are, we really appreciate it :)
(And thank you to everyone who supports us with a monthly patronage and with one-off donations. It may not pay the rent but it does help us to keep existing and continue working on realising the Small Web with Kitten¹ and Domain².)
https://small-tech.org/fund-us
¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
² https://codeberg.org/domain/app
Aral Balkan
@SrEstegosaurio It really is – especially given that we don’t promise anything in return apart from continuing to do our best in working on the problem and making the Small Web exist 💕
Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕
@aral It's encouraging to see that there's people out there who also care. :D
Aral Balkan
(Just updated the amount to the exact number as it’s actually rather geeky if you think about it.)
Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻
@aral 2**10 you mean 😁
Aral Balkan
@veronica Hahaha, I’m the stereotypical developer who can’t do maths, aren’t I? :) *goes to fix*
Aral Balkan
@fzimper @veronica A boy can dream :)
(Also, no idea why I wrote the square root as the exponent apart from maybe NEED MORE COFFEE!)
Frank Zimper 🐘🕯️🖤
@veronica
Yep, I was also curious about who would donate that much 😬
Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻
@aral although 4 billion euros would be nice, assuming it's unsigned 😄
Aral Balkan
@veronica I’d settle for 4 million, to be fair. Or even one. Or even a few hundred thousand.
But, alas, we’re not building something to screw people over so we don’t get funding like that.
:neko_roling_eyes:
Aral Balkan
@veronica Isn’t that the dream? :)
We’ve gotten *checks notes* ZERO EUROS in EU funding for our work at Small Technology Foundation over the last ten years.
I’ve actually given up applying for grants. One way or another I’m just going to finish what I’m working on, get it out there, have people using it and then we’ll see where we go from there.
Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻
@aral haha, good point. If I got that much funding for my open source project, I'd spread it around. I'd love to have enough to work full time on it for a year though.
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