The project is in terrible shape due to the lack of leadership, and most of it boils down to the fact that you're just not around (I'm sure you're busy with other things). What's wrong is not just the current funding allocation fiasco (who will ever consider sponsoring us, now that we've shown that we don't even know what to do with the money we have?).
I hate telling people what to do, but here the following is obvious to me and deserves to be written elsewhere than on IRC: - we have no roadmap; we need one. - if the intent/focus is to concentrate on "having more resources", we need to invest towards getting more. That means spending some of the funds towards improving the status quo. I can expand on that if need be, but you've already pointed out the obvious: we need an attractive website (for users), codebase (for contributors), working installers (duh!) and probably someone tasked with applying for funding (that may have to be a paid resource) / PR - the consensus / democratic / hipster way of taking decisions doesn't work for open-source projects that aren't funded. Open source projects are a meritocracy where do-ers have power; those that disagree are free to fork and become do-ers. - the current level of funding doesn't give much time/resources and it's clearly a waste of time for everyone involved to argue about processes for allocating them. Time is money, even if it's only volunteers's. Just call the shots, those that disagree are free to leave (and that comes from someone who has a long history of disagreeing with most of your previous calls :)). I'm puzzled as of why you've decided to do things differently this time around... What's the strategy/long-term roadmap for the project? I mean, once we've blown the current financial resources, what's the plan? I've realised the other day that the fund-raising campaign (what's still on the website) is conducted solely with the intent of funding xor for a year... leaving his assignment/performance apart from the discussion... how does any of it cater for "after"? Whether he succeeds or not to deliver, it won't help us move forward; At best we'll have more code (but not more resources). Florent PS: To be cristal clear, I'm fine with Freenet not having resources, being a research/toy project, I definitely don't want more users/problems... but I don't understand the logic/strategy pursued by those that do.
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