NLnet grant application for federation in Forgejo (deadline August 1st, 2022)

Here is a draft workplan to be prepared in case the grant is accepted.

The following resources were used:

And some tasks were added relative to moderation since it is an important topic that was somewhat overlooked when preparing the grant application.

The spreadsheet has twenty five items and a total grant amount (set to 50000 because that is the amount requested but there is no guarantee it will be the amount allocated):

  • First column: sequence number [1,25]
  • Second column: unique name of the task
  • Third column: three lines description of the task
  • Fourth column: milestones deliverables that are either merged pull requests, published documents or videoconference recordings (at most three)
  • Fifth column: percentage of the funding dedicated to the task. It is 2% so that all 50 items total 100%.
  • Sixth column: the payment that would be requested upon completion of the task, calculated using the total grant amount and the percentage allocated to the task.

From my experience things can get very confusing when tracking payments because the money received will not always be associated with the proper label (banks tend to truncate things or just trim). Since the amount paid is the only reliable way to track what was paid and when, the amount allocated to the task is augmented by a prime number so that factorizing them conveniently provides the list of tasks that were paid.

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