to really blow some minds bring up the fact that software needs to be hosted somewhere.
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It will be called the
WHY THE FUCK DID NO ONE FUND THIS FUND
WFNOFTF pronounced wiffinofftiff
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when the last grant proposal has been written and all the writers have run off to the bogs and forests, we will all of us be free
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“…but Wren it sounds like your plan would abolish grant writing and yet, you are a grant writer.”
I said what I said, yes.
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Give the grumpiest bastard grant writers several million euro and we will fix this shit.
- no asshole rule for funding
- diversity and INCLUSION INCLUDING RETAINING PEOPLE because hiring is worthless if everyone rage quits because your org is a dumpster fire
- multi-year funding for maintenance
- if someone maintains critical code, and the community describes them as a lovely person they would trust to guard their drink, they get a living wage for years to do whatever. Seriously this would work. It would be a better use of money than the current secret handshake and code word system of grant writing.
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For years, it’s been common knowledge among grant writers for open source tech that putting maintenance of existing code in a proposal can tank the whole thing.
Funders, do you hear us now? Are you going to remember this week and let go of the new shiny object fixation?