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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 18:11:20 JST Aral Balkan

   • Free Software Foundation Europe
   • NGI Zero open source funding

   Hands up if you think public EU money being awarded by @NGIZero / @fsfe should be subject to a transparent process where we can see all internal discussions/comments/reasoning concerning funding decisions including who made them.

   #publicMoneyPublicProcess

   I detailed our last funding application myself here but it only tells half the story:

   https://ar.al/2022/07/29/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain/

   https://ar.al/2022/09/28/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-first-update-questions-and-answers/

   https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

   #transparency #nlnet #fsfe #ngi #funding #eu #foss

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 18:43:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Free Software Foundation Europe
     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @NGIZero @fsfe So here’s what I want to see:

     1. Who exactly is involved in approving/rejecting each application, including their qualifications, and a transparent – and ideally democratic – process for electing judging panels at intervals.

     2. A public transcript of all conversation/deliberation for each application, archived for posterity.

     3. All correspondence between the applicant and the judging panel.

     #eu #funding #nlnet #fsfe #ngi #PublicMoneyPublicProcess

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 19:39:59 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Free Software Foundation Europe
     • NGI Zero open source funding
     • Robert Riemann 🇪🇺

     @rriemann @NGIZero @fsfe Why not do both?

   • Robert Riemann 🇪🇺 (rriemann@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 19:40:00 JST Robert Riemann 🇪🇺

     in reply to

     • Free Software Foundation Europe
     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @aral @NGIZero @fsfe

     I think the focus should be this degree of transparency in the public procurement of services from large-scale IT vendors #GAFAM. The spending is magnitudes higher.