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Hi, I'm the author of the blog post, but also a member of the codeberg prasidium. Thank you for this feedback I will bring it back, and hopefully lessen the barrier to join.

Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for your comment. In reference to your edit, we are investigating a DAO to empower the community, but aren't committed to it, only investigating it to see if it is viable. In terms of funding the community, we are committed to creating a fund with non-crypto money to be able to give back.

In terms of "leaving money on the table" this is very much not that, open source is incredibly non-equitable and skews a lot to a certain way (a lot of people with who can afford to give up time to open source, not everyone but a large amount). This prevents many who have a desire to work on projects such as Gitea, but need to find a job or two to pay rent and get groceries. By establishing what we have, we are hopefully broadening the pool of people who are able to participate.

Hi, thanks! I'm the author of the blog post, and I'm not sure if you were the person who pointed it out in chat, but I have since fixed it thanks to that heads up.

Hi, I'm the author of the post. That is correct, I mentioned a DAO as a possible way we are investigating for empowering the community, we are very much not trying to make a new currency.

Hi Simon! First, let me thank you for all that you do with Open Source. I package a few of your Python libraries for NixOS, and they are all so wonderful. I'm the author of the blog post above, and agree with your concerns. That's why we are not committing to creating a DAO, but wanted to to let everyone know it was something that was being looked into to empower the community, and make sure the voice of the community is still very much present. I mention community 4 times in the blog post it is that important to me.

Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry about being unclear with that part. The issue is less them using the project, but more creating a support burden by sneaking into community forums and hiding their affiliation. I'd much rather donate my time to homelabbers, and people not being paid an obscene amount of money who in theory should be able to figure it out themselves.

Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you so much for your comment. Yes, the UI needs an overhaul and that is one thing we hope to improve.

Hi everyone. I'm the author of the blog post above, and I am sorry that I caused so much confusion.

I have spent much of today trying to clear things up, and will be writing a follow up to the post.

I see some concern around the mention of a DAO, I tried to get across in the blog post that community is incredibly important, and so I mentioned it as a possible way to ensure community governance, not to create a cryptocurrency and sell that. I mentioned it to be entirely transparent that it was a way that we are possibly investigating to make sure community is still involved.

Thanks to our paying clients, the company has been able to hire some maintainers, and contribute back the changes we've made back to the project so everyone can benefit. We are also looking into establishing a fund to not only pay contributors, but also projects we rely on.