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"Copie Publique" grant program for FLOSS: €3000 grant to support Lemmy (mastodon.libre-entreprise.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Copie Publique" grant program for FLOSS: €3000 grant to support Lemmy

French worker-owned company @codelutin invest 3333 € to support the #threadiverse development. 3000 € will go to Lemmy while 333 € will go to #kbin.

@copiepublique is a french alliance of companies who pledged to support FLOSS via profit-sharing. If you are a french company, join the alliance! ✊

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Very cool!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Hold on, is that a grant or a donation? (The difference is that a donation is definitive, while there are conditions, such as failing to fulfil an obligation, under which a grant has to be repaid)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

@7heo according to your definitions, it's a donation. We don't expect anything else that money be spent on working on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I only wonder why it's 3333€.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@andrew_bidlaw long story short, it's due to our way to democratically split our budget.

We take 1% of our sales. That's ~ €17k

€10k of the budget go to the firsts "winners" of a vote we have internally. We had 3 winners so the €10k was split in 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 so €5k was attributed to @panoramax €3333 to support the threadiverse and €1666 for https://www.hackinscience.org/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for answering and honest cheers on doing that. I don't think people behind these projects have enough support or credit. And as little as 1.3k can be seen in IT, it goes directly into supporting their passion projects benefiting us as a whole (:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@andrew_bidlaw you would be surprised. Many projects are so short on money that you can make people so happy. Sometimes, even giving 100€ was life-changing for some people we supported 😲

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Indeed. If only I wasn't in fucking russia. It feels like FOSS suporting may finally lead me to learning crypto, in non speculative ways, only to support what these chads are doing. The Atlants, bearing the world I can regularly shitpost to on their shoulders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks a lot for the donation! Weve added you to the "Gold Pressed Latinum" sponsors on join-lemmy.org.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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