@cczona Piggybacking onto this: the European FOSS community is really bad at asking for money. Donating to the vast majority of useful FOSS projects/developers is only possible through US charities/corporations.

I would love to see a European Free Software Foundation that makes it easy to donate to FOSS development (either charitably & tax-deductible for individuals, or invoiced as sponsoring or whatever for business). That might just persuade the EU to throw some money at it as well.