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Once again, a grant application to support #Vernissage has been rejected. This time, #NLnet declined funding for #C2PA photo provenance.
I’m genuinely sad and disappointed. #C2PA is an open standard, unlike Apple’s proprietary Reference Image solution.
I’ll implement it in Vernissage anyway, but on a much smaller scale than I had hoped. 😔
For now, I don’t plan to apply to #NLnet again. Maybe #Vernissage simply isn’t well known enough to the people making these decisions.
Being an independent open-source developer is tough. Corporations benefit from our work without giving much back. I honestly thought finding European funding for a European open-source project would be easier.
It’s exhausting and, frankly, discouraging.😔
@mczachurski Have you considered that NLNet financing another project might be the origin of the problem?
Maybe you’ve been put on a list due to a certain someone, who was very good (*cough cough*) at misrepresenting what transpired?
@teotwaki @mczachurski I believe NLnet only funds one type of project in each segment so they can fund many types of projects, they have rejected my application for Sup too, because they have funded other messenger apps already.