I would not be so pessimistic about it. Of course the break is not optimal and as you say, others might start earlier with a similar idea. But Vanig already has a good foundation, the work continues in the background. Only the procurement of the necessary funds has been delayed. I am sure that it will continue in a few weeks and Vanig will continue thereafter as planned.
For my bountytokens from the twitter campaign, I hope i am right :-)
I like your optimism. Have you participated already in succesful paused projects? In any case I think we need to calculate in months instead of weeks. But who knows?
Don't get me wrong: I've invested too a lot of time and energy into this
VANIG project as a translator, so I eagerly want them to succeed. But at the same time I participated in too many projects that in the end did not work out, including paused projects that after several months were terminated.
Of course I stay open to be happily surprised by
VANIG, and hopefully rather within weeks than months!