John Sullivan, executive director of the Free Software Foundation answered the following questions in a private email and gave me his permission to reuse them to show grant applications reviewers that independent third parties support fedeproxy:
- Do you think the approach and the goal of the project are worth pursuing?
Yes, I do. FSF has said that we would like to see federated project hosting, such as in > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration:
“We also hope that in the future we’ll be able to see decentralized, federated collaboration platforms that meet most needs. We will continue to be interested in that direction, but we think the need for this freedom-respecting forge is time sensitive, so we’re going to do it with the free software we have available right now. Allowing issues and other data to be imported and exported is a feature that we want in our new forge, because that will at least ensure that users can move to another instance of the same platform.”
We’ve also supported ActivityPub specifically, in places like Victory for libre networks: ActivityPub is now a W3C recommended standard — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software and Decentralization, federation, and self-hosting — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software.
- Do you think I’m able to implement such a project?
I definitely do.