I would remove that line. Let people decide for themself if they find it boring or not. But putting this in will almost assure you get no feedback.
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@aschrijver I made the change. Reverse psychology is unlikely to work in this case, you are correct. And I do not find that boring really. It is tedious, though. But I appreciate the value of the exercise 
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What are proper places to deliver feedback? In a HedgeDoc it is quite hard to see good divs and revisions, especially if there are many.
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Someone fixed a typo in HedgeDoc. I expect that someone will probably ask questions and make suggestions in the associated issue. But it is also possible to make changes in place for rewording or adding things, if one thinks it is non controversial. If you want to make changes, feel free to edit at will: I won’t work on that before Wednesday 4th, August 2021.
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Posted (i added a link to the hedgedoc document)
@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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@pilou would you be so kind as to post the following to this issue ?
A grant application has a better chance to be considered if it has the backing of known people/organizations and/or many individuals. Gitea is popular and and effort to get such support is likely to succeed.
- Is someone willing to advertise this grant proposal and get endorsements and a significant number of individual supporters?
- What are the communication channels this person should use?
- What kind of message should they send?
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Both have been posted:
@pilou would you be so kind as to post the following to this issue ?
Federation Gitea.md (25.4 KB)
Bonjour,
TL;DR: first version of the generic grant application ready for comments, expecting bio from zeripath & cjslep
This first version should contain all the elements needed to fill a grant application with requirements similar to NLnet and DAPSI (links are included in the document itself if you’re curious).
In addition to the expected bios it would be useful to get a list of organizations or individuals that would support such a grant application.
There are a few question marks in the grant application for which there does not seem to be a publicly available answer but someone from the Gitea community surely does:
- What is the contribution of the sponsors listed on the gitea.io homepage
- Is there an estimate of the number of Gitea installations and/or developers using Gitea?
Next week I’ll rework the grant proposal based on comments and double check with the grant guidelines that nothing significant is missing.
Cheers
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August 9th, @zeripath provided his bio, here is the version of the document that contains it. It is otherwise the same as the one published August 5th.
Federation Gitea.md (26.7 KB)
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Agenda of the upcoming videoconference call (1h):
- Live proofreading of the executive summary: how convincing is it?
- Baby step create a private key
- Looking for individuals & organizations willing to support (i) this grant application and/or (ii) advancing federation in Gitea (what is the contributions of the current sponsors?).
- Facts and articles that demonstrate the popularity of Gitea
- Where to advertise the effort towards federation?
- First grant application must be sent before October 1st, 2021 for the NGI Zero Discovery call
@pilou would you be so kind as to post the following to this issue ?
Bonjour,
TL;DR: One last call to finalize the grant application, select your availability as soon as possible
The generic grant application is almost done. There are a few blockers that can be quickly resolved during a one hour videoconference. Please select your availability as soon as possible, between August 21st and August 28th. Unless you’re on vacation 
Once this step is complete, applying for a grant will be a matter of cherry-picking. I would not go as far as to say it is easy, but it certainly is a lot easier than starting from scratch 
Cheers
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I will send the following personal email to each Gitea developer I know as soon as it is published to get their attention.
Bonjour,
The generic grant application is almost ready and, luckily, a call opened August 1st with a deadline October 1st, 2021 for NGI Zero Discovery. The federation of forges in general and Gitea in particular is an enabler for searching federated forges in a distributed way: reason why it is relevant to the call.
Would you be so kind to let me know your availability for a last videoconference to clarify a few important points? That would allow me to work on the grant application and if it succeeds the funds will be available before the end of 2021.
Cheers
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Some suggestions for posting paid work: FOSS Jobs, Bountysource (maybe more candidates on delightful funding).
Update: Lemmy post on upcoming webinar…
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@aschrijver would you be so kind as to post the following to this issue ? This is unfortunately the only date when you’re not available 
I can’t do 26th anymore: another obligation was inserted. Tough choice.
The call is open to everyone and will be at:
https://meet.jit.si/LargeGuidancesStabilizeCleverly Wednesday August 25th, 6pm UTC+2, 2021
The call will be recorded and published the same day. Please speak up now if this prevents you from participating. The proposed agenda is:
- Live proofreading of the executive summary: how convincing is it?
- Baby steps:
- Looking for individuals & organizations willing to support (i) this grant application and/or (ii) advancing federation in Gitea (what is the contributions of the current sponsors?).
- Review of the facts and articles that demonstrate the popularity of Gitea
- Where to advertise the effort towards federation?
- First grant application could be sent before October 1st, 2021 for the NGI Zero Discovery call
- Prototype fund German residents, deadline September 30th, 2021
This is very gracious of you
I just noticed a feature request was opened by @techknowlogick for the baby step at https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/16717
Would you be so kind as to add this link to the agenda, next to the Baby step item?
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@techknowlogick are you based in Germany by any chance? If so you could be elligible to benefit from Prototype Fund, under the “software infrastructure” topic. But maybe you are already aware of that?