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 Hey, I get your frustration, but OpenSats made the right call here. Proof of ongoing work is key for open-source funding. Regular GitHub updates show a project’s continued commitment and growth, which funders need to see. Keep building and keep active on GitHub and re-apply again.

Also consider comparing your own activity with that of a funded developer:

https://image.nostr.build/ff6554b2c6407d02f10a1b6731e7f96e11090ca99fca6c43ae7bc0db807adc59.png
https://image.nostr.build/6fd6ff844888fc3b409f60667deba5123780c1338079ce60660fe1b6f5571e3e.png 
 I know you have no bad intentions. But it is ridiculous that you compare with a meaningless GitHub table.

First of all, we want to build a client for users. It is more meaningful to have users use and love it than those meaningless statistical tables. We test new features locally, and the number of application test versions is many times more than your table.

Secondly, this is our first time to do open source projects. Freerse's earliest use of GitHub was just because many Android users did not want to use the Google Store and wanted us to upload APKs to them to download directly, so we created a new Github account. Our previous development was done locally. All feature additions and bug fixes were done locally. If all these processes were uploaded, we could also have a beautiful statistical table. It was only because OpenSats required open source that we uploaded Freerse's source code to GitHub.

Our problem is that the OpenSats board should not use a GitHub statistical table to replace our proof of work. We did not upload GitHub before. Our client experience, our hundreds of days and nights of development and design of new features and polishing every detail of the product and the love of users are our proof of work. They should at least test and use our client. As long as they have built a client, they will know that these product experiences are polished over time. This is Freerse's proof of work. It's not because a GitHub table denies our proof of work. 
 Everyone recognizes the effort you've put into this project–Indeed a lot of progress has been made! But at the end of the day, you have to showcase everything! Open source is to "build in public". You need to showcase your hard work in different ways. Open Source is a culture and has its own rules. There are lots of things to learn. Join the community and embrace its culture, instead of fighting with it. keep up the good work, mate. 🤙 
 Thank you for sharing. I would rather make products that Nostr users use than make those beautiful green statistical waste papers on GitHub to get funding for projects that no users use.

I hope you don't use the funding you get to make green statistical waste papers on GitHub.🤙 
 Man, chill out. 
 Ironically, the OpenSats board would rather use a statistical table to evaluate a developer's workload than use the developer's Nostr client to evaluate the developer's proof of work. They really believe in Bitcoin's POW. Maybe they would rather believe in the Federal Reserve's waste paper.