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he has never applied but everyones a critic
He has not, I'm aware. Neither have I for the record. But it's not a secret that the application process is not (or was not) straight forward or very transparent. I have also been a critic of those who rely on my GITHUB default branch history as the source of truth of my activity. It's not lost on me that it's likely to get application requests for dead projects, but as a "freedom tech" enthusiast, all of my work is self hosted. I shouldn't be pressured to push to GitHub, nor merge commits to my default branches just to show rabid activity.
and I am transparent about that.
your public list of funded projects is already enough to support this claim, and there are many people replying sharing their experiences.
but if you aren’t scared of criticism, you would:
- directly reply to my post
- publish the *amount* you fund these developers
- publish a transparency log of rejections and why that decision was made
as “Open”Sats
we have funded 320+ grants, without taking any cut of donations
if the complaint is that we do not fund enough people that is insane
we publish every grant but not amounts, its a transparency vs privacy tradeoff
all of our grant recipients are welcome to publish grant amounts themselves
the complaint is that you are not properly disclosing your review process for being a so called “open” charity
OpenSats has also materially achieved much less per dollar it has given in a grant, showing that it cannot manage funds as well
the structure and grants given by OpenSats also shows conflicts of interest at many levels
when you get a grant from an “open” charity, as OpenSats claims to be, it is in the best interest of your donors to see the amounts of those grants, and who also got rejected
but OpenSats is using privacy as an excuse to not disclose the amounts of grants which could reveal wrongdoing
if you want full complete privacy, go directly raise sats, no one is stopping that
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I have already checked that page and it does not provide any answers to my above questions.
you still do not disclose your rejections, your amounts, your conflicts of interests, and a lot more.
only “policies”
we have approved 341 grants
we have probably rejected over 2000 grants, we simply do not have the bandwidth to provide detailed feedback to all rejected applicants
individuals are welcome to apply again or get funding elsewhere
your expectations are unrealistic, we are probably one of the most efficient and transparent charities in the world, if you or anyone else thinks they can do better then please do
you do have the time to write a few sentences and put a list on your site, or if you think this is too bandwidth intensive, develop a tool to manage grant applications
there still exists the conflicts of interests that permeate every decision by “open”sats, and other concerns
complete answers or nothing. shouldn’t be a lot of time to clear these easy concerns considering I am not the only person asking.
I agree with Odell. Revealing grant amounts is a privacy nightmare and is going to create even more drama than already exists.
Aren't you also the guy that clings to the belief everyone has to use dollars?
Are you a donor unhappy about how your funds are being spent? If so then proceed I guess. If not, what business is it of yours?
I don't want amounts and rejections published. That could put someone in a bad negotiating position.
Opensats being the biggest obvious force of sabotage against nostr is every nostr user's business
