PocketBase Developer Declines FLOSS/Fund Sponsorship Due to Regulatory and Trust Concerns
By
Onavo
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The article discusses the cancellation of a FLOSS/fund sponsorship for the PocketBase project due to regulatory constraints and trust issues. The developer explains that FLOSS/fund's partnership with GitHub didn't work out, and they instead wanted to issue a wire transfer from India requiring extensive cross-jurisdictional paperwork. The developer declined the funding because they didn't trust FLOSS/fund or the Indian government with processing and storing personal sensitive data, especially through insecure shared mail inbox channels. The developer acknowledges making a mistake by initially applying for the funding and expresses disappointment about the situation.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledFLOSS/fund reached out to me again but due to some unforeseen regulatory constraints their partnership with GitHub didn't seem to work out.
Instead they want to issue a wire transfer from India requiring several cross-jurisdictional paperwork but I don't feel comfortable doing that because I don't trust them, nor the India government, with processing and storing personal sensitive data.
So in the end I had to withdraw my FLOSS/fund application and decline the funding.
I've made a mistake for no
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