Purism just posted a developer position. PureOS GTK Application Development – Purism
Edit - changed guess to quote from Todd off matrix
Funds are donated, the list is prioritized based on votes (not dollars), the list gets worked on in the order of priority until fully satisfied. So it is only a question of when the application will get released not if it will. Purism continues to fund app development as part of its business model and will continue to do so even if one app got $5 in donation and one vote. Additionally community development will also be funded or assisted in funding by Purism, since the more applications the run on the Librem 5 the better for all.<
Also they got a lot of people involved. Purism: "Thanks for the 747 app votes so far! We're just g…" - Librem Social
We’ll need to divide that by the number of votes each ballot can cast.