Revealing rejected/pending applications makes a ton of sense in principle and it could prevent VC cherry picking or reveal clear conflicts of interest. HOWEVER this might also cause an administrative/political nightmare for the operation and be lose lose. I’m sure there’s fake or disingenuous applications abound which would not be well judged by the public. My gut says let em cook but maybe there’s a middle ground here where all applications above a certain standard are default revealed (proof of x # of prior commits on FOSS projects or something? This is hard).

Also… nothing is stopping applicants from posting it here on Nostr. If their reputation/work is respected by the community then it will pressure Opensats to consider to save their own rep. Like we’re currently witnessing…

All in all FOSS contributors shouldnt feel entitled to some big daddy charity fund to help them though. That’s not the attitude that’s gonna change the world anyway