42 Free & Open Source projects will receive grants to reclaim the public nature of the internet from the NGI0 Commons Fund.
There were many applicants & it's wonderful to see the number of people working on digital commons, inventing & improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity.
We'd like to take this space to thank *all* applicants for their contributions to an internet for people rather than for profit.
Come meet the new projects! https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250422-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
#FOSS #Funding #NGI #NGI0
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🚀 Registrations are now open for NGI Forum 2025!
📍 Brussels | 📅 19–20 June 2025
Join the NGI community for two days of discussions on:
🔹 Open Internet Stack
🔹 Digital Commons & Sovereignty
🔹 AI, Web Search & Internet Governance
Meet the minds shaping a more open, human-centric internet.
🔗 Register: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/
#NGIForum25 #OpenInternet #DigitalSovereignty #TechForGood #DigitalInnovation #NGI
If you are working on Free and Open Source technologies that improve the digital landscape for everyone, know that NGI0 offers financial & practical support.
We offer grants between €5k - €50k, open to everyone.
Calls currently open:
NGI0 Commons Fund: Reclaim the public internet
NGI TALER: Privacy-preserving digital payments
NGI MobiFree: More ethical mobile software
NGI Fediversity: Creating the hosting stack of the future
Deadline February 1, 2025
https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241201-call.html
#FOSS #NGI #NGI0
🔊 @ngi initiative projects announce their decision to discontinue the use of X, including #NGISargasso.
This strategic move aligns with #NGI’s commitment to fostering an #InternetOfHumans that embodies European values of trust, security, and inclusion.
Follow #NGISargasso on:
✅ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@ngisargasso
✅ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/ngisargasso.bsky.social
✅ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NGISargasso
✅ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ngi-sargasso/
More info 👉 https://ngi.eu/news/2024/11/29/ngi-projects-end-use-of-x/
🇪🇺 Big news! Sixteen #NGI projects are leaving X and moving to #Mastodon and #PeerTube!
Why? We're committed to building an Internet that reflects European values.
Where to find us:
@NGITransoceanic
@NGICommons
@fediversity
@NGIZero
@e_mydata
@NGI_Localforlocal
@NGI_Taler
@NGIZero
@ngisargasso
@ngitrustchain
@NGIZero
@ngisearch
@openwebsearcheu
@NGI_Enrichers
@review
@ngi
Edited 187d ago
At a time when The EU is seeking to cut FOSS funding to funds like @NGIZero
Perhaps we need to ask the EU to fund smaller, more communal projects, rather than seeking to create Unicorns.
"The report highlighted how 30% of EU startup businesses that had grown to be valued at more than €1bn – known as unicorns – had moved abroad, and mostly to list on stock markets in the US."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/eu-mario-draghi-report-spending-boost
In the latest NDC Cable, I wrote a short essay about the shortsightedness of the European Commission's decision to cut NGI's funding, and the absurdity of the Commission's new obsession with AI at the peak of the bubble:
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/cable/2024/08/blue-skies-blue-screens/#europe-ending
#europe #europeanCommision #ai #opensource #floss #foss #ngi
The EU supports Open Source financially. That includes many Fediverse projects like Mastodon or PeerTube. They've received money from the EU's Next Generation Internet programme - but that could soon end: According to a draft work programme, there will be no money allocated to the programme in 2025. The reactions are surprised, to say the least. My article for @netzpolitik_feed
Edited 321d ago
Your attention please:
Maybe you've never heard about it but since 2020, the Next Generation Internet programs, a sub-branch of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, have been cascading funding (via @nlnet calls) open source software in Europe. The massive fundings have enabled a great deal of free software development in recent years, and all without too many constraints (with too few transparency and monitoring, though… which urgently needs to be improved). Unfortunately, these NGI programs seem to have been withdrawn from the next round of Horizon Europe fundings to give priority to AI bullshit.
As a result, we’ve been invited to contact the National Contact Points, Horizon Europe’s national representatives, to express our concern and the importance of maintaining public funding for free software. With this in mind, we wrote an open letter at Petites Singularités and thought it would make sense to fork it out with Hackstub and ARN in Strasbourg for the French NCP to get other French-speaking free software orgas to sign. I’m thinking in particular of the software that has benefited from this funding, such as Yunohost, but also of the Kittens that use this same software.
We can also announce that this topic will be part of the central theme of the next #OFFDEM in Brussels, on the first weekend of February 2025. There's not yet an exact title, but we’ll be discussing financing and community structuring for free software over the next few years.
If you want to sign the french-speaking version of this letter, there's a pad for it: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI