Hey all 
this has been on my mind for a while and wanted to begin a discussion on it.
A bit more than a year ago I applied for the first cohort of the FLOSS fund initiative (2025 FLOSS/fund disbursements) and LibreTranslate was accepted for 10k USD! While the funds haven’t been disbursed yet due to accounting delays, I think sometimes next year these will likely become available and I’ve been thinking about ways to make good use of them.
To that extent, I was thinking of opening an OpenCollective fund for the project and solicit bids for microgrants to work on various areas of the project from the community. This could be bids for improving the software, adding new features, improving performance, training new language models, work on upstream libraries, etc.
Just wanted to gage interest to see if this is something that people would like to have and if given the opportunity, to get an idea for things that people would be interested to work on.