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+.. post:: Dec 10, 2015
+   :tags: funding
+   :author: Anthony
+
+RTD Awarded Mozilla Open Source Support Grant
+=============================================
+
+Several months back, Mozilla launched a new initiative -- the `MOSS`_ program --
+to provide financial support to the open source software projects it relies on.
+Mozilla allocated $1 million to the MOSS fund to provide grants for up to 10
+projects matching the program's criteria.
+
+Read the Docs is among the `first round of awards`_ made for the MOSS program.
+Our proposed grant, for $48,000, is to build a separate instance that integrates
+with the Python Package Index's upcoming website, `Warehouse`_. This integration
+will provide automatic API reference documentation upon package release, with
+authentication tied to PyPI and simple configuration inside the distribution.
+API reference documentation on every release will be the starting point of this
+work, prose documentation generation will be more difficult here, as not all
+packages use Sphinx or rST for documentation.
+
+Having consistent API reference documentation across all released distributions
+will be an enormous benefit to the Python ecosystem. API reference documentation
+will be found in a single space, with version specificity, and will be able to
+be tightly inter-linked across projects. This is hopefully the start of work
+that could benefit other communities as well, by putting more emphasis on usable
+documentation and best documentation practices.
+
+We are currently just into the planning stage for this work. We hope to have an
+official roadmap planned out, and a detailed breakdown of the work involved, in
+the coming weeks. This post will be followed up with a more detailed look at our
+plan and the work required. Work on this grant will hopefully begin early in the
+new year and will be spaced out throughout the year.
+
+Funding open source software communities is still a difficult proposition for
+most companies. We appreciate Mozilla's stance and commitment to open source and
+can only hope more companies take note and learn how to put value on the health
+of the communities they rely on.
+
+.. _`MOSS`: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS
+.. _`Warehouse`: https://warehouse.python.org/
+.. _`first round of awards`: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source-support-first-awards-made/