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Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by a456463 »

sreekanth850 wrote: post #20
embedding-shape wrote: post #8

Back in 2024, FLOSS/fund was described like this on HN: > To apply, the project must place a funding.json in their public code repository or at a well-known uri location on their domain [...] That's already 10x more simpler than the 20 page document some of these other orgs have you fill. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032 But the author of the issue for Pocketbase writes: > due to some unforeseen regula…

India have a strict process for sending and receiving money from outside as investment. Its mainly to avoid black money i guess.

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Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by a456463 »

bogzz wrote: post #14

Such a shame. I so love Pocketbase, used it when I was trying out HTMX for a side project. I get the sense that ganigeorgiev is feeling the thanklessness of open source work, and I so wish that he had an easier time of it. That said, it's a shame that a FLOSS fund being based in India is reason enough for it to be avoided. Like, I understand that Indians might be overrepresented in the scam space right now, but avoid…

The Indian Govt is dictatorial and segregational. It is a valid concern. Freedom of speech and privacy are not something the government cares about upholding.

Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by rvnx »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #13
murillians wrote: post #3

I think this submission should be re-titled. From the post, it seems that the author voluntarily declined funding from FLOSS/Fund because they "don't trust them, nor the India government, with processing and storing personal sensitive data"

I think it shouldn't. The funding source was dropped by Github, and the terms Pocketbase accepted for funding include being paid through Github by FLOSS Fund. FLOSS Fund refused to follow the regulatory requirements to continue funding projects through Github, and Github dropped them as a funding source. What the Pocketbase maintainer decided was to drop FLOSS Fund after they tried to renegotiate the contract in dang…

Unethical ? "they want to issue a wire transfer, but I don't feel comfortable giving my IBAN"

If the IBAM is the concern you can create a separate IBAN with Wise / Revolut for example quite easily (and for free, and for sure cheaper than refusing the money).

Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by DiabloD3 »

sreekanth850 wrote: post #17
DiabloD3 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it shouldn't. The funding source was dropped by Github, and the terms Pocketbase accepted for funding include being paid through Github by FLOSS Fund. FLOSS Fund refused to follow the regulatory requirements to continue funding projects through Github, and Github dropped them as a funding source. What the Pocketbase maintainer decided was to drop FLOSS Fund after they tried to renegotiate the contract in dang…

Are you saying sending money via Wire transfer is unethical? Its a standard way to send money in cross boarder transactions. Please do note that India is highly regulated for financial transaction that go outside the country so, please don't spread something like they are doing it illegally. Zerodha is a well known firm they are open about this funding. 1 Million every year just because they used many oss project. Th…

From what I can tell, no, they weren't just asking for wire details. They were were asking for multiple forms of identification.

If I was in his place, I don't think I'd send everything required to steal my identity to some company in a foreign country that I have no legal recourse in.

Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Onavo wrote: post #18
giancarlostoro wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are so many projects I could use pocketbase for, if only it supported Postgres. So... you want Supabase? which is what Pocketbase is inspired by.

It's not single binary, you need to spin up a dozen or so containers and have a full DevOps team on standby if self hosting.

Well yeah, that's the nature of using something like Supabase it is designed to scale and be flexible to develop on top of.

Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by 4ndrewl »

a456463 wrote: post #22
bogzz wrote: post #14

Such a shame. I so love Pocketbase, used it when I was trying out HTMX for a side project. I get the sense that ganigeorgiev is feeling the thanklessness of open source work, and I so wish that he had an easier time of it. That said, it's a shame that a FLOSS fund being based in India is reason enough for it to be avoided. Like, I understand that Indians might be overrepresented in the scam space right now, but avoid…

The Indian Govt is dictatorial and segregational. It is a valid concern. Freedom of speech and privacy are not something the government cares about upholding.

Can you spell ICE, Flock and Ring?

Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by mc007 »

slopinthebag wrote: post #19
abtinf wrote: post #4

There are so many projects I could use pocketbase for, if only it supported Postgres. I get the philosophical reasons behind why it doesn’t and why it’s SQLite only. It’s just that in a corporate environment, I could trivially deliver full production ready applications because there is a team that handles all the Postgres replication/failover/ha/dr/backups/recovery for me. Pocketbase with pg would be super simple to…

like others have said, try sup abase https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker i havent tried self hosting but it doesn't look too tricky

setup is easy but you're stuck with one instance. they stripped all multi-tenant features and even the selfhosted version is missing essential features, scaling is off the table though.

Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by notatoad »

4ndrewl wrote: post #26
a456463 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Indian Govt is dictatorial and segregational. It is a valid concern. Freedom of speech and privacy are not something the government cares about upholding.

Can you spell ICE, Flock and Ring?

Regardless of how authoritarian the government is in the project maintainer’s home country, exposing themselves to a second authoritarian jurisdiction is probably a bad idea.

Re: Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund

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Post by rvnx »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #24
sreekanth850 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you saying sending money via Wire transfer is unethical? Its a standard way to send money in cross boarder transactions. Please do note that India is highly regulated for financial transaction that go outside the country so, please don't spread something like they are doing it illegally. Zerodha is a well known firm they are open about this funding. 1 Million every year just because they used many oss project. Th…

From what I can tell, no, they weren't just asking for wire details. They were were asking for multiple forms of identification. If I was in his place, I don't think I'd send everything required to steal my identity to some company in a foreign country that I have no legal recourse in.

The irony is that a lot of the KYC checks are actually done in India: Jumio, Onfido, LexisNexis, Refinitiv, HyperVerge, IDfy, Signzy (a lot of major banks)

So his ID is probably there already

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