Since the last news, and after 6 months of work on the proof of concept, I did seek some funds.

I applied to :

And tried to apply to an European funding, which turned out to require connections in 2 other European countries.

I also could have asked the Fund for Defense of Net Neutrality FDN², but as I’m the current treasurer of the structure, it would require extra care and still cast a shadow in some minds.

I had a answers from nearly all of the foundations.

Mozilla, NLnet and the OSI answered : "Maybe, but it’s a bit too early". I can understand their point of view, but once the work will be done, it might be a bit too late.

The Wauland foundation finally issued a positive answer in novembre 2018 for 5k€.

I had too much contracts to work on to resume working on Meta-Press.es earlier this year, but a coming event (that will soon be announced here) will profit from the last enhancements of the project.

So far, a lot of work is still needed before submitting the addon to AMO, but a selection mechanism of the newspapers to search in is now working, and 42 newspapers are indexed. I will write an How-To index one more newspaper, but the current official method is to get the inspiration in js/newspapers.js. Less than 20 lines of JavaScript are required to parse the results of a newspaper.

There is still some small bugs to fix, and mainly the import/export of results (or selections) in JSON, RSS and ATOM formats to code. But starting from now, with the filter mechanism working, the project can already integrate newspapers scraping contributions (or tagging enhancements of current newspapers).