[arp242]

I had a €25k grant from NLnet a few years back, and the process was painless and hassle-free, no more than the average job application: "here is my project, and here is why I think it might be a good fit, and here's what I plan to work on". And that was it.

Meanwhile, Google did a security review of my ~4,500 Go library a few years back, and that process was significantly more effort. The entire thing was incredibly bureaucracy-heavy, time-consuming (two hour-long meetings that didn't tell me anything), and generally beyond ridiculous.

Anyway, I don't know about this initiative as I never even heard from them before today, but "get grant" does not automatically means "jump through hoops" or other hassle.

And in the end, you do need to send money to people actually wanting to receive it and can do something useful with it. You can't "just" send money to random projects.