Right now, when I donate to opensats I'm outsourcing the vetting of the projects and letting them decide which projects get different amounts of funding.

I'm not a dev and I can't review all the projects, so I have lass of an issue trusting them to vet projects. But if people have concerns with board members choosing the level of funding, that is something we could empower individuals to decide, right? 

Or maybe even by category. Like what if I want to donate to fedimint projects only, or only new LDK features (Bolt12), or only new lightning mobile wallets.  This would also help with the latest Saylor FUD... Have a no protocol changes fund, or a layer 2 only fund.

Just brainstorming really though.  Contributing to FOSS projects is literally mission critical to the future of Bitcoin. We need to make sure that aspect of Bitcoin remains as decentralized as possible.  Just throwing out ideas. 

 You're describing Geyser fund. Which already exists. I'm not sure the problem you're addressing? 

 Yea maybe. I think I'm unsuccessfully trying to point out that it's hard for non devs to identify legit projects that deserve funding, while also pointing out that it's impossible that only 9 people can bring totally unbiased opinions on funding.  Is there a way to decentralize it more without having to go all the way down to the individual project level? 

 Don't think so. Maybe @RESOLVR is what you seek? 

 Oh nice! I have actually been looking for something like this 👍