I suspect quite a few of you might be keen on open-source 😀
Unfortunately, #opensource has a funding problem, and so a lot of people struggle to find time to commit to their projects.
In many regions though (esp the EU) there is money available to fund you doing open source full time! Particularly in a few different areas related to what the EU is calling "Next Generation Internet" (#NGI) tech.
All these are open for applicants either right now or imminently:
I'm a bit tired to read that Google, FB, or whatever killed #XMPP :
XMPP is not dead, far from it
I have a lot to say on Google, but at least they made a major contribution to XMPP and the A/V world in general by co-authoring Jingle
what was/is painful to XMPP is the lack of resources, specially for client devs, most of clients are made by very small team (often single person), and most of time on their free time
other painful things are ill informed criticisms and mis-informations
And fortunately we have organisations like #NLNet and #EU#NGI program which have been a a great breath of fresh air for many #XMPP project (and many others), including #Libervia. Thanks to people doing that!
NGI Sargasso are seeking external evaluators for their #OpenCalls
They are looking for specialists who meet the following criteria:
European or from #horizoneurope associated countries. #scientists or #business experts from #academia or industry.
NGI Sargasso - Open Call Infowebinar & Matchmaking Session today at 4pm CEST
"NGI Sargasso and Canada collaborative call in Digital Credentials will support projects from European organizations in the field of Digital Credentials that propose an effective collaboration project with Canadian organisations."
I'm really happy to announce the #SummerofNix 2023, organized together with the #NixOS and #NLNet foundations.
We have significantly reworked the collaboration format and will focus exclusively on #mobprogramming this year. In addition, we will be working on a monorepo “ngipkgs” for all #NGI Nix packages.
Thank you, @EU_Commission and NGI program, for the support and the belief in Nix as a tool to manage the complexity of #opensource.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that we're going to receive further funding from the #EuropeanCommission 's #NGI. This next work is going to focus on APIs for developers: we're going to provide SDKs for incorporating the wyrd #CRDT into apps.