Michiel Leenaars (our director of strategy) speaks at #FOSDEM about Europe's ambition to increase its digital sovereignty in relation to the #NextGenerationInternet. Despite its contribution to tech sovereignty with over 1300 Free and Open technologies supported, so far #NGI is not in the EU's future plans. Michiel addresses the question: What should our new EU Commissioner for Tech Sovereignty be working on for the next 5 years from the the vantage point of NGI? https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6508-next-generation-internet-2025-where-next-/ #FOSS
Michiel Leenaars (our director of strategy) speaks at #FOSDEM about Europe's ambition to increase its digital sovereignty in relation to the #NextGenerationInternet. Despite its contribution to tech sovereignty with over 1300 Free and Open technologies supported, so far #NGI is not in the EU's future plans. Michiel addresses the question: What should our new EU Commissioner for Tech Sovereignty be working on for the next 5 years from the the vantage point of NGI?
@nlnethttps://euro-stack.com/blog/2024/8/red-alert-ngi-funding-loss
The potential defunding of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative in the Horizon Europe working draft for 2025 poses a significant threat to the European open source ecosystem. This post outlines the critical role NGI plays in fostering innovation, ensuring digital sovereignty, and building a thriving European digital economy, and calls for the European Commission to reconsider...
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/
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/
Hi Fediverse, we are NLnet. We support people and organizations who contribute to a free and open internet. We offer small and medium grants to projects that help fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data.
We're the lead of @NGIZero a coalition which runs several funding programmes for people who build free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet. (Made possible with financial support from the European Commission).
We've been stealthily present in the Fediverse behind the NGIZero handle but have now finally set up our NLnet instance. With special thanks to @nlnetlabs for their patience :).
Another way we've been involved is we've funded many fantastic ActivityPub related projects. See the image for a visual overview.
Happy to be here and looking forward to meet you in this pleasant space.
Hi Fediverse, we are NLnet. We support people and organizations who contribute to a free and open internet. We offer small and medium grants to projects that help fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data.
We're the lead of @NGIZero a coalition which runs several funding programmes for people who build free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet. (Made possible with financial...
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@nlnet https://euro-stack.com/blog/2024/8/red-alert-ngi-funding-loss
The potential defunding of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative in the Horizon Europe working draft for 2025 poses a significant threat to the European open source ecosystem. This post outlines the critical role NGI plays in fostering innovation, ensuring digital sovereignty, and building a thriving European digital economy, and calls for the European Commission to reconsider this decision.
cc @apell @ow2 @eurostack @fsfe @NGIZero @NGICommons@eupolicy.social @NGIcommons@social.ngi.eu
@nlnet https://euro-stack.com/blog/2024/8/red-alert-ngi-funding-loss
The potential defunding of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative in the Horizon Europe working draft for 2025 poses a significant threat to the European open source ecosystem. This post outlines the critical role NGI plays in fostering innovation, ensuring digital sovereignty, and building a thriving European digital economy, and calls for the European Commission to reconsider...
@nlnet Is your director Michiel Lenaars not on #Mastodon yet? #FOSDEM