A few things:
- I do not think there is any need for you to resign from the coordination of the MOU, you wrote the grant, helped others and you are currently helping with another active grant application. It needs to be someone all grantees trust. So I would prefer that you stay on as administrator of the grant because I do know how the payment system works and I’m certainly not comfortable asking others to pick someone new. Some of you have known each other for a while now.
While there are no leaders, you are a leading voice. What you say carries alot of weight. It still will carry weight even as a volunteer. Which is correct, we do need some steering. So while this may make you feel uncomfortable, you need to acknowledge this. But that doesn’t mean you should step away. The community needs your steering , it needs your help to do grant applications, to do what you have been doing.
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You need to have a call with the contact at the funding body and talk about how to fund the community work, by spreading the remaining money via the milestones. They will guide you and explain.
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Everyone in this grant tranche needs to be sure that they are happy for community work to be funded in this way. Plus after my post last night, people may not feel they can work with me. So there needs to be explicit consensus, not just a lack of objection. If people have concerns about me, they need to discuss it. This is part of the reason I chose to leave the matrix chats. I want people to have the freedom to think and discuss this.
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You also need to consider this for any future funding for granted forgejo work and as it becomes more sustainable, factor in the costs of that community work. Regardless if it’s myself or someone else. Because community will not be funded directly, it never really has been, even in OSS companies, it tends to be bound with other roles.
You have my email address. Have a think about these points and please discuss this with the funding body.
Everything is in energetic chaos at the moment, but there does need to be a sustainable plan.
It does not need to be detailed. But from working out the answers to those points we can work out what to do next to try to fix the breach.