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Organic Maps

We have some great news to share – our project has been awarded a microgrant from FUTO! This grant will help us continue improving and growing the app. Receiving grant from an independent lab and grant fund also means that our vision of what a good and reliable map service should be is shared, valued and supported. More details: youtube.com/watch?v=fJJclgBHrE

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If you want to learn more about FUTO, feel free to check out our website: https://futo.org/

The purpose of these microgrants is to give money to open source projects that we use and love in order to encourage others to do the same. We need to financially support good tech that doesn't screw with us.

We gave microgrants to Organic Maps, Synchthing, and VLC.

We also wanted to celebrate the success of Gitlab and Zulip, so we bought subscriptions to them in order to encourage others to pay for good software.

Projects championed in this video:
Organic Maps - https://organicmaps.app/
Gitlab - https://about.gitlab.com/
Zulip - https://zulip.com/
VLC - https://www.videolan.org/
Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/
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Bø!rge

@organicmaps That's great! Congrats! You're doing fantastic work!

Ps: please copy the text you add a screenshot of and paste it into the alt text of the image.

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@organicmaps

That's fantastic! Very happy you got the grant as I use and love #OrganicMaps daily.

I'd love to boost this, but can't on principal as the screenshot has no alt text. That the toot relies on people understanding the text in the screenshot, so you're really shooting yourself in the foot here, locking out people with #accessibility needs.

#NoAltTextNoBoost

Anyway, thank you for making a great #FOSS app and congrats on the grant!

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@organicmaps

Thank you! Yes, if you don't enter the text when you first upload the image, the current UI does make it difficult to find. Usually the easiest way is just to choose edit on the toot, delete the image and reupload. Then it asks you for the alt text.

Anyway, thank you for both adding the text to improve accessibility and for a beautiful, clean and usable app!

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