NGIZero

NGIZero, 4 days ago to security

Security in Times of Surveillance, the 1-day, in-person event of @Ei_PSI (Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information) will take place on May 31 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

NGI0 fellows Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin / Tolerant Networks) and Wouter Bokslag & Carlo Meijer (Midnight Blue / TETRA:BURST) will be speaking. (As well as other great speakers like Jaap-Henk Hoepman and Bart Preneel).

https://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/surveillance.html

#security #surveillance #NGIZero #NGI

NGIZero, 7 days ago to random

Happy to announce the (official) launch of Mobifree. The @mobifree NGI Pilot Project focuses on the development of ethical mobile software, prioritizing the digital rights of users, including privacy and freedom of speech.
https://mobifree.org/

Part of the project's budget is reserved for funding third-party contributions. The current open call for proposals between 5 & 50k is open till June 1. (More open calls will follow this year.)
www.nlnet.nl/mobifree/

#NextGenerationInternet #NGI

NGIZero, 12 days ago to opensource

There'll be an #NGI breakout session during OW2con'24 for NGI beneficiaries. It's a chance to meet up with fellow contributors to the open internet, share a presentation about your project and to explore new collaboration possibilities.

Throughout the conference there'll be an NGI Community corner for projects to provide demos & meet open source professionals

OW2con'24 is held 11-12, June in Paris-Châtillon. Registration is free but mandatory.

https://www.ow2con.org/view/2024/Breakout_Sessions/NGI-Search

#NGIZero #opensource

NGIZero, 15 days ago to random

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot co-founder of @TauriApps will be speaking at The Web Conference where he'll announce the launch of Verso.
Verso is a web browser that plays old world blues to build new world hope: a new open-source project that seeks to make a cross-platform, Rust-based browsing engine, webview, and browser.

On May 16, it's an in-person event but live stream will be provided. https://crabnebula.dev/events/the-web-conf-2024/
https://www2024.thewebconf.org/program/full-schedule/

NGIZero, 20 days ago to foss

Apply for Summer of Nix 2024 to join one of four teams in making selected free and open source software (FOSS) projects work reliably on a whim using Nix and NixOS.

Deadline May 10.

Summer of Nix is a rare opportunity for students or early-career professionals with diverse technical skills and interests to practice disciplined software development with Nix while contributing to the public good and receiving some payment for it.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/summer-of-nix-2024-call-for-participants/43249

#Nix #NGI0 #NGI #FOSS

NGIZero, 20 days ago to foss

Listen to the @projetslibres_podcast with Walid interviewing Lwenn Bussière, Technology Assessor at NLnet, about #NGI0 and NLnet.

Lwenn: "The Internet infrastructure that we know very well comes from free software and is based on an often invisible, often unpaid work of volunteers and enthusiasts. We fund people who actually build sustainable solutions for the Internet."

The podcast is in French with transcriptions in both French and English.

https://www.projets-libres.org/en/nlnet-foundation-funding-free-software-in-europe-lwenn-bussiere/

#FOSS #NGI

NGIZero, 21 days ago to foss

Radically Open Security, the nonprofit computer security company donates 90% of its profits to NLnet. Today @ros turned 10 years old and crossed the magical number of 1 million euro in donations to NLnet.

Happy birthday ROS! And thanks a million :-).

We interviewed ROS co-founder and CEO Melanie Rieback to learn why she decided to give the company such an unusual business model.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240507-ROS-10y.html

#FOSS #postgrowth #degrowth #opensource

NGIZero, 29 days ago to random

NLnet co-founder prof. dr. Frances Brazier has received a knighthood for her exceptional contribution to society.
With her contribution to NLnet Brazier promoted IP-connectivity in the Netherlands and helped bootstrap the open internet in Europe. Later, in 1999, she co-founded @nlnetlabs for long-term research projects.
We congratulate Frances with her well-deserved Knighthood and want to thank her for the important work she has done for the open internet in general and NLnet in particular.

NGIZero, 1 month ago to opensource

Andrew "bunnie" Huang will give a webinar about his project IRIS (Infra-Red, In-Situ) inspection of silicon. A project to facilitate the non-destructive verification of silicon chips.
He'll give a short talk about the project but will leave most of the time for a Q&A as he is interested to hear what people think about IRIS.
Bunnie is an open hardware hacker, and an activist for digital rights.
Join us Thursday May 2, 11.00 CEST. https://nlnet.nl/events/20240502/index.html

#openhardware #NGIZERO #NGI #opensource

NGIZero, 1 month ago to foss

Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize!

Dnsmasq provides network addressing for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.

Dnsmasq creator & maintainer Simon Kelley said: "This prize is valuable financially, but much more so as a mark of public recognition that dnsmasq is still something that's worth doing."

https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/1.html

The € 10 000 BlueHats prizes aim to place maintainers of critical #FOSS in the spotlight.

#bluehats #opensource #maintainers

NGIZero, 1 month ago to opensource

Come and meet the 41 projects which will receive funding in the latest round of the #NGI0 Entrust and NGI0 Core programs.

We want to thank all the people/teams/communities behind these free and open source projects for their important contribution to a trustworthy, resilient, open internet.

If you want to properly meet each project, come over to https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240417-announcing-projects.html and we'll give you a proper introduction.
Or, for a quick hello, see the list below.
#NextGenerationInternet #opensource

NGIZero, 1 month ago to random

Tomorrow we're hosting the webinar:
Open source CPU and SoC design : The flow, the challenges and a perspective.

Speaker Charles Papon is the creator of the SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and NaxRiscv projects. He will speak about the tooling involved in designing a CPU and deploying it on hardware. The talk is followed by a Q&A.

Thursday April 11, 13:00-14:30 CEST.

Everybody is welcome and no need to subscribe.
More info and the link to the BBB platform: https://nlnet.nl/events/20240411/index.html

#openhardware #NGI0

NGIZero, 1 month ago to random

Submissions for talks for the 2024 Free Silicon Conference are open till May 1. FSiC2024 connects experts and enthusiasts who want to build a complete Free and Open Source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits.

#FSiC2024 takes place in Paris, France, June 19-21. Attending the conference is free of charge but do send an e-mail to let them know your coming.

Organized by #NGI0 partner Free Silicon Foundation (F-Si).

https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2024

NGIZero, 1 month ago to opensource

We have 4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. Projects must be free and open source and papers published as open access.

Themes
NGI0 Core: Internet architecture and digital commons
NGI0 Commons Fund: Reclaim the public nature of the internet
NGI TALER: Privacy-preserving digital payments
NGI MobiFree: More ethical and human mobile software

https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240401-call.html

Deadline is June 1, 12.00 (noon) CEST
#NGI0 #opensource

NGIZero, 2 months ago to random

Everyone is welcome to our two upcoming open hardware webinars:

Open source CPU and SoC design: The flow, the challenges and a perspective, with SpinalHDL creator Charles Papon on April 11, 13.00 CEST.

And a Tech Talk with Andrew "bunnie" Huang on IRIS: an open hardware project to verify chips. May 2, 11.00 CEST.
An interactive talk with hardware hacker bunnie on his project IRIS (Infra-Red, In-Situ) inspection of silicon.

https://nlnet.nl/webinars/

#openhardware #NGI0

NGIZero, 2 months ago to random

An interesting funding opportunity from the SIDN Fund for a more sustainable internet. They're calling for tools and awareness projects that contribute to a more environmentally friendly digital infrastructure.
They are offering #grants of up to €75.000. The deadline is May 3.
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/call-duurzaam-internet [In Dutch]

NGIZero, 2 months ago to random

Educators and researchers have send an open letter stating that open-source chip design tools (Electronic Design Automation -EDA- tools) are essential for the European renaissance in chip design education and innovation. They ask of European Strategic and Funding Directions that open-source EDA tools must be a first-class citizen of the ambitions to foster chip design capabilities in Europe.
https://open-source-eda-letter.eu/

NGIZero, 2 months ago to random

“Email is a minuscule text file that you transmit across the internet. To claim that you don’t have the competence to arrange that yourself is a sign of administrative incompetence”, says Michiel Leenaars in an interview on Radio 1. He’s is responding to a recent report of Clingendael Institute warning the Dutch government has squandered cloud sovereignty by outsourcing storing vital & sensitive information to American providers. Listen to the interview here [In Dutch] https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/spraakmakers/643d3e2d-6056-4d44-bdb9-ab3df4ad90d4/2024-03-11-michiel-leenaars-we-zijn-slaven-van-bedrijven-als-google-en-microsoft

NGIZero, 2 months ago to random

Join us for the webinar Open source CPU and SoC design : The flow, the challenges and a perspective with Charles Papon on April 11, 2024, 13:00-14:30 CET.

Through the lens of the SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and NaxRiscv projects, Papon will discuss open CPU design, deploying it on hardware, lessons learned and challenges.

For more info and a link to the BBB room see https://nlnet.nl/webinars/. No need to subscribe, the room is open.

#openhardware #RISC-V #webinar

NGIZero, 3 months ago to random

Do you agree that the internet should be improved in terms of trustworthiness/security/user autonomy/decentralization/openness/.../?
Are you working on a project to get us there?
Would it help to receive funding and practical support to realize that project?
Well, there are 7 open calls right now within the @EC_NGI's #NextGenerationInternet initiative.
There is 1 for #DigitalCurrency, 1 for #mobile, 3 for #search, 1 for #InternetArchitecture & 1 for #DigitalCommons.
https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls/

NGIZero, 3 months ago to random

Data Autonomy and Academic Freedom: great piece by philosophy scholar @tstahl arguing that Big Tech in academia not only fosters digital dependence but can undermine academic freedom. With a shout out to @SURF for creating a cooperative social media platform for Dutch scholars and students on Mastodon.
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/policy-and-strategy/data-autonomy/blog/data-autonomy-and-academic-freedom

NGIZero, 3 months ago to random

Tomorrow we'll host a webinar on the GNU Name System (GNS) and the road to publishing an RFC.

Thursday Feb 22, 13.00 CET.

GNS provides a privacy-enhancing alternative to the Domain Name System. It was published as an #rfc. RFC authors Martin Schanzenbach & Bernd Fix will explain GNS and how the RFC process works.
Stephen Farrell advises on working with #standardisation bodies.
The #webinar is open to all. You can find the link to the BBB platform here: https://nlnet.nl/webinars/

NGIZero, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Chaos Computer Club has put out a CfU (Call for Utopias). The idea is that people could do with stories of positive futures to be inspired and engaged in the present.

Utopias can be submitted in any and all forms and will be shown/acted out at #38C3. Deadline is on leap day.

It's in celebration of #CCC being 42 years old. Happy life, utopias and everything dear @CCC!

https://42.ccc.de/
@callforstories

#CfP #42

NGIZero, 3 months ago to foss

In a new round of funding 41 projects have received an NGI Zero grant. It is great to see so many people working on free and open source building blocks for the digital commons.

What stands out in this round is the large number of open hardware projects and the continued popularity of memory safe languages.

Here is an overview of the 41 projects: https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240212-announcing-projects.html

With thanks to the @EC_NGI European Commission's #NextGenerationInternet initiative.

#FOSS

NGIZero, 3 months ago to web

Interesting funding opportunities from @openwebsearcheu. The project has launched two new open calls for grant applications. Researchers and innovators are invited to submit their ideas and can request funding between 50.000 and 150.000 Euro.

The Open Web Search project aims to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. Part of the project's budget is reserved for third-party funding.

The calls are open until April 4, 2024.
https://openwebsearch.eu/third-party-calls-2024-media-release/

#web #search #funding