I'm curious about this, specifically how burdensome it is to apply, and if there has to be some alignment between the project and any "political" government obj

I'm curious about this, specifically how burdensome it is to apply, and if there has to be some alignment between the project and any "political" government objectives. I'm not familiar with NSF grants. In Canada, if the government decides to fund something, they want you to prostrate yourself on the alter of whatever cause is en-vogue with the public service, and won't just let you pitch a project on its technical merits. I say all this because the funding could be good if it's un-encumbered, or it could be detrimental if it ends up further shifting open source project objectives towards politicized causes. I could be off-base, like I say, I'm coming at this from Canadian experience, where I would not want the government as a meaningful source of funding in the open source ecosystem