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/
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.
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.
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.
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
Webinar Announcement:
Open source CPU and SoC design tools
Through the lens of the SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and NaxRiscv projects, this webinar will introduce the kind of tooling which is involved in designing a CPU and deploying it on hardware, the related challenges, the similarities and differences between hardware and software open-source, how the industry interact with open-source hardware, as well as the difficulties that the scale of such project creates. https://nlnet.nl/events/20240411/index.html #NGI#nlnet
Hands up if you think public EU money being awarded by @NGIZero / @fsfe should be subject to a transparent process where we can see all internal discussions/comments/reasoning concerning funding decisions including who made them.
📢 Announcement for NGI funded parties only:
NGI Communication Training: 2nd Edition starts on 7 Feb!
Join the NGI Outreach Office training and enhance your digital communication skills! Master storytelling, SEO, analytics, and more. Register at: https://www.ngi.eu/training/ #NGICommunicationTraining#NGI
Meet Open Food Facts, the world's largest open-source food database. With 2.8M+ products, 2.9M monthly users, and 20K+ contributors, Open Food Facts shapes how we approach food:
#NGIForum23 The is no way to edit or remove questions. The is no way to talk to anyone... A normal #NGI "trust" #4opens fail, except this time it is a hardcoded due to the use of this CMS for the event. Before this we used #FOSS with #BBB which worked well, then #dotcons silos that worked after a fight each time to get chat turned on, now we are here #blocking, every #EU tech event has pushed this "control" mess over the public. What are you guys in "control" going to do to stop this.
Today in the NGI Forum 2023. At 11.10am CET a plenary session "**Decentralised Social Media and Fediverse: from niche to scale". **Registration to watch this discussion is free! Later this afternoon there's a workshop on 'activity pub software', details in first reply to this post.
#ngiforum23 I am shocked to see "expert" people on stage about #digital#commons telling about markets and government regulation. Go back to Commons 101, Mr Linux foundation.
That said, 99% of #NGI funding is geared towards tech... but if we want to build internet for humans and the digital commons, how do we fund the required human centric community work to sustain the stewardship of the commons?