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Written by NLnet on 2025-01-06 at 17:15

The schedule for the "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom at FOSDEM is live!

With 11 interesting talks we cover a broad spectrum exploring how to ensure the longevity and security of FOSS projects. There are talks about funding strategies, mechanisms & reflections on the funding ecosystem. Here you can have a look at the lineup: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/funding/

We hope to see you at #FOSDEM !

The #devroom is organized by @sovtechfund @fsfe @linuxfoundation @PrototypeFund Probabl & NLnet.

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Written by NLnet on 2025-01-01 at 18:11

Happy 2025 everyone! On this first day of the fresh new year we are happy to announce 50 Free and Open Source projects were selected to receive NGI Zero grants.

We'd like to congratulate all the teams and individuals and thank them for working on a better internet for us all.

Come over and meet the projects:

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

[#]FOSS #NGI #NGIZero

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Written by NLnet on 2024-12-23 at 10:34

Happy holidays everyone! Wishing you the best of times and a free and open 2025.

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Written by NLnet on 2024-12-18 at 14:18

What to do during the darkest days on the Northern hemisphere? Hole up inside CCH and huddle around the blinking LEDs of #38c3 !

We're looking forward to go to Congress and we hope to see you there.

One of the things we'll be doing is a joint meetup with @PrototypeFund and @sovtechfund about funding free and open source projects. Day 2 at 15.00 in Saal D.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/meet-the-funders-sovereign-tech-agendy-nlnet-proto/

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-28 at 09:29

Thanks to @proedie and @SandraSchink we have now learned that the first second sentence available is allowed, even if it is not on #page42 . So here we go:

"The others all agree that he was the son of Execestides, a man whose personal wealth and influence in Athens were modest enough, but who belonged to its most distinguished family, since he traced his decent from Codrus, one of the ancient kings of Attica."

[#]seite42

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-27 at 21:14

Rules of the game:

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-27 at 21:14

I want to play #page42 but my nearest book has no second sentence

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-25 at 12:10

"There are 3 key issues that I see with the state of the internet today: commercialization, government overreach, and centralization", says @nwalfield of Sequoia PGP.

The project is a set of tools for encryption and authentication based on interoperable standards. It aims to expand and vitalize the OpenPGP ecosystem.

"It can help protect personal data from surveillance capitalism and government overreach when integrated into applications."

Full interview https://nlnet.nl/project/Sequoia-Keystore/interview.html

[#]NGI #NGI0 #FOSS

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-22 at 14:20

You can still join the Green Tech hackathon from @ripencc . It's hybrid so you can either join on the internet or in-person in Amsterdam. December 10 - 11 with options to join only parts of the day(s) if you're short on time.

There are already interesting potential projects like: Solar powered e-paper sign post, investigating permacomputing, documenting low-power settings & more.

Organized by the wonderful @becha

Announcement: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/announcing-the-green-tech-hackathon/

And update: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/approaching-the-green-tech-hackathon/

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-21 at 16:08

We need chips we can trust, says Jean-Paul Chaput, lead architect of the Coriolis Open EDA (Electronics Design Automation) project.

The entire internet, from infrastructure to algorithms, relies on chips. But most of them are black boxes.

The open hardware movement, especially the RISC-V endeavor, started to address those issues. Still, they need an Open EDA to guarantee that what you get on silicon is what you specified.

Read the interview with Jean-Paul: https://nlnet.nl/project/VLSI-tools/interview.html

[#]NGI #NGI0

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-19 at 12:28

"The chip design industry is dominated by proprietary tools with costly licenses, making access difficult for small companies & students", says Carlos Ruiz Naranjo of TerosHDL.

"To overcome this dependency on proprietary actors, the #openhardware movement is trying to design a fully open workflow for creating low-level hardware. TerosHDL offers a unified interface for over 25 open source tools, including simulators & HDL synthesis tools.

Interview with Carlos https://nlnet.nl/project/TerosHDL/interview.html

[#]NGI #NGI0

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-18 at 14:16

"Movements to ban cryptography are a huge threat to safety online, as are more visible issues like censorship, misinformation, and surveillance capitalism through online tracking", says @kora of @rosenpass

Rosenpass, a post quantum security add-on for WireGuard, is at its heart a future-proofing infrastructure project. "We are working to ensure that existing security technology will keep working as computers get faster."

Read the interview with Karolin Varner https://nlnet.nl/project/Rosenpass/interview.html

[#]NGI0 #NGI

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-14 at 11:53

Centralization of infrastructure, control, and power makes it difficult to run a website independent of the few gigantic internet companies, says Michał @rysiek Woźniak in an interview.

His project LibResilient is a tool that allows a website to stay up and accessible to returning visitors even if the original site is down for whatever reason, without relying on centralized internet gatekeepers.

https://nlnet.nl/project/libresilient/interview.html

[#]NGI #NGIZero #FOSS

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-14 at 10:11

Hyper Hyper Space has published a technical report after concluding their #NGI Assure grant. It details design choices and technical alternatives in the field of distributed applications.

The findings are intended to guide future development of Hyper Hyper Space & to share their experience with other developers of synchronization engines and distributed end-user applications.

And as a bonus: when you follow the link you can also admire their redesigned website :)

https://www.hyperhyperspace.org/report.html

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-12 at 16:09

We are happy to hear that the @PrototypeFund is continuing! At least until 2029 but hopefully much longer. Congratulations!

That's good news for all of #FOSS :).

They have an open call right now for innovative open source software with a focus on data security and software infrastructure. Deadline is January 2, 2025. Read all about it here: new.prototypefund.de/en

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-12 at 09:03

"One of the main problems of today's internet is users & their data being treated as raw material to be exploited, rather than as people with sensitive information to be served & protected", says Morgan from Blueprint for Free Speech.

"Ricochet-Refresh is an anonymous, end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer & metadata-resistant instant messaging client. There are no servers to seize and no organizations to subpoena. Users control their data entirely."

Interview: https://nlnet.nl/project/Gosling/interview.html

[#]NGI0 #NGI

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-11 at 16:03

Four projects will receive grants to contribute to the NGI @mobifree pilot. Many thanks to all four teams for contributing to a fair, open and privacy-friendly mobile software ecosystem.

@termux Android terminal app and software distro/run-time

OpenAGPS: Privacy-friendly, self-hostable location service

Android Translation Layer: Run Android apps on Linux

LambdaNative F-Droid integration: Portable, Productive and Performant App Development with Scheme

https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241111-NGI-Mobifree-grants.html

[#]NGI #mobile

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-11 at 15:37

Two projects have been selected for NGI Taler grants.

Interledger Interoperability Inquiry will investigate the technical feasibility of using Taler's privacy-friendly payment system on the Interledger payment network.

GNUTaler Tryton/GNUHealth Integration will develop a Tryton module which enables users to integrate Taler payments into their webshops. Plus the integration of Taler in GNU Health to deliver a much needed contribution to medical privacy.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241111-NGI-Taler-grants.html

[#]NGI #Taler

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-05 at 14:22

PyCM evaluates the performance of machine learning algorithms.

With the emergence of AI, the internet is on a historic edge. OpenAI & other big companies are in a crazy tournament to serve “the best” LLM over the internet through APIs. Evaluating these LLMs is hard due to the complexity of evaluating models on different tasks & aggregation.

Read the interview about PyCM's contribution to evaluating LLMs with developers Sepand Haghighi, Arash Zolanvari & Sadra Sabouri

https://nlnet.nl/project/PyCM/interview.html

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Written by NLnet on 2024-11-04 at 15:26

Call for Participation!

We're happy to announce the first "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" #devroom at #FOSDEM 2025.

The goal of this devroom is for developers to gain insights into funding strategies and to engage more #FOSS users like companies & governments in FOSS funding.

Submission deadline for the #CfP: December 1.

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003579.html

Devroom's handle: @FOSDEM25DevroomOnFunding

Organized by @sovtechfund @fsfe @linuxfoundation Probabl @autkin @PrototypeFund & yours truly.

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