On: FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund

[Bogdanp]

It's unclear from the website whether or not applications are open to folks outside of the US. Are they? Either way, very cool.

[aiddun → Bogdanp]

Yes! It's not on the site yet but we recently gave microgrants to VLC, FFMpeg, the Blender Foundation, as well as other non-US projects. We also just had a fellow[1, applications now open] from Lithuania. (I work for FUTO)

[1] https://futo.org/fellows

[l-albertovich → aiddun]

That's interesting, some time ago I saw a video about a live captioning system in Louis Rossmans (youtube id r09Hm2zd2lY) where someone asked the same question and the answer was that they only accepted local applications.

Did I misunderstand his answer or is this something that changed?

[aiddun → l-albertovich]

Asked him and he said he was talking about having to travel here to do the fellowship. "If you are international, we will accept you as a fellow and help you come to texas, but the fellowship program will not allow you to be in the fellowship program if you want to stay in your home country throughout the program."

[l-albertovich → aiddun]

That's a crucial important piece of information and unless there's a specific reason not to include it I'd suggest adding it to the web page.

[aiddun → l-albertovich]

Fixed! Thanks for bringing this up