Grant application for federation in Gitea

@pilou would you be so kind as to post the following to this issue ?


Regarding the bio part, It needs to be something like (this is mine for the fedeproxy proposal):

Loïc Dachary: In 2001 Dachary raised concerns about centralized proprietary forges and worked with the Free Software Foundation to setup, install and maintain the Savannah forge. He also contributed to the GNA! forge, until 2017, when it shut down. In the recent years Dachary published software to migrate software projects from GitHub to GitLab and infrastructure as code including GitLab deployment Ansible playbooks as well as end to end integration tests for a Django based API server including the automated installation of a GitLab server for the duration of the test.

In other words it does not need to be long but it must be contextualized and someone reading it would know you’re a good candidate to implement your part of the project. I find it useful to add URLs where someone can verify the facts (e.g. “XYZ is on of the top N most active Gitea contributors” ).

In addition there needs to be a paragraph about what motivates you to work on federation. Again quoting my part from the forge federation proposal:

In 2018 Dachary closed his GitHub account for ethical reasons and has since been unable to participate in Free Software projects hosted there. The federeration of forges would allow him to reconnect with these projects.

Loïc and Pierre-Louis would both use fedeproxy and contribute to its development if it already existed, on a volunteer basis, because they need it for their day to day work. But the initial effort to create fedeproxy from scratch cannot conveniently be done on a volunteer basis and requires funding. In addition, because Libregerbil is a Free Software service provider, the expertise developed while creating fedeproxy may generate additional income in the future, if a market for the development of federation features emerges.

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