In reply to @theevilskeleton:fedora.im

Sonny Tobias Bernard: hey, the GNOME Calendar developers (Georges, neko, and me) have been thinking about getting some funding from the Foundation to work on one or various aspects of Calendar, mainly time zone handling. We already know what needs to be done feature-wise; all that's missing is a mockup (and ideally some funding so we can work on it).

We've also had accessibility in mind as well. We started asking Joanmarie Diggs and Lukáš Tyrychtr about an ideal UX for screen readers, but I suspect that will take some time to gather feedback and research, so we only want to focus on time zone handling for now.

Do you have any suggestions, recommendations, tips & tricks on where to get started?

In reply to @tbernard:gnome.org
i think usually their focus is on network-related stuff

In reply to @tbernard:gnome.org
i'd be happy to help apply for nlnet, though it's far from guaranteed that it'll be accepted

In reply to @theevilskeleton:fedora.im
Thanks a lot, do you happen to have previous drafts saved or resources that I can use while drafting? I never asked a grant that way so I need some guidance and reference

In reply to @fomosapien:matrix.org
Hari Rana | TheEvilSkeleton: www.oss.fund you may find it helpful if you can dig into that list :-)

Thanks for the ping Sonny. The Foundation is indeed not in a position to distribute grants to projects, even for the Core apps, but that would be a nice place to be!

The major problems I see with small grants like the ones NLNet distributes are:

• They only fund small projects which is fine for guerilla development, but adds significant overhead if you want to build a larger project
• NLNet in in charge of distributing money from the Horizon Europe initiative, which is apparently pivoting away from small OSS projects and toward AI (my only source is https://kolektiva.social/@hackstub/112762068812732277 that NGIZero has boosted), which means those funds will dry out