I like this idea!..although I have a slight preference for making these stipulations as part of a matching program. The main reason is the overhead involved in reporting requirements as a US-based non-profit. For small bounties it may not make sense for the Foundation to do so because we’d need to identify contributors/send 1099s etc.—but that wouldn’t strictly apply to community-based funding (AFAIK). Then we could match the bigger projects with Foundation funding that carries these requirements at the discretion of the project owners (this reasoning echoes a post I made here).
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