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).
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.
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
#NgiForum23 Many individual accounts and orgz accounts are talking about Next Generation Internet Forum right now through Fediverse
This is neat <3
But how many of them are spreading around this grants opportunity from NGI zero for free software, hardware and data folks and organisation? #NGIzero#NGI0
Because it is highly important to share our managed initiatives collectively thought and managed to help Free materials and to support communities and people.
Project funding available varies from 5,000 to 50,000 euros − with the possibility to scale them up if there is proven potential
And the members of the NGI zero consortium and their partners are also here to support you.
If you are affiliated with a university please consider signing the following letter which calls for open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools:
Btw: If you are interested to participate to a public discussion on the development of open-source silicon and open-source EDA please join us on May 14 over #BBB:
The first part is about democracy, the second part is hard politics, and is more nasty.
The #fedivers was booted up on grassroot #openweb passion and crowed funding, it was sustained in the early growth by crowed funding and expanded (in an often not helpful way) by #geekproblem passion. Over the last 2 years we have seen this shift sharply to “institutional” funding, some of this has been behind the seanes “think-tanks/academia” but over the last years the #EU though #NGI and more specifically #NGIzero have taken a central role in funding just about all fedivers #mainstreaming projects and much background technology.
In this, we have moved from meany 1000’s of people shaping the direction in a radically #4opens transparent way to handfuls of people controlling the levers of influence in a more opaque process. This is a clear and very obvues failing of #openweb governance, kinda normal and very obvuesly fail.
Now the wider #NGI project pour funding directly down the drain, which is a normal outcome so not an issue for us as the money is wasted anyway. #NGIzero are doing good, they are funding grassroots #openweb technology, so they are people we should work with.
How do we start to mediate this issue “In this we have moved from meany 1000’s of people shaping the direction in a transparent way to handfuls of people controlling the levers of influence in a more opaque process” And more importantly rebalance the #mainstreaming agenda that flows with this funding https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/4opens/wiki/Funding-of-openweb-projects this second part is a BIG problem, this first part is about democracy, the second part is hard politics, and is more nasty.
Have you heard of the Next Generation Internet Zero project?
#NGIZero supports strategic technology research and development, including the development of free/libre/open source software and hardware, and the establishment of open standards and open data.
The @sovtechfund is offering grants to people who contribute to a sustainable open source ecosystem. Grants go up to €300,000 per application and cover three main topics:
Improve FOSS Developer Tooling
Securing FOSS Software Production
FOSS Infrastructure Documentation
With this program the Sovereign Tech Fund seeks to stimulate an open digital infrastructure: fundamental technologies that enable the creation of other software.