run by a representative of NLNet in the Netherlands, which is an organization that has been funding lots of Fediverse projects with grants. He graciously answered tons of questions about how to obtain funding from them.
There are detailed session notes, which we will publish as soon as possible on https://fediforum.org/
Job opening at NLnet
(Junior and senior) technology assessors
"NLnet is looking for enthusiastic, knowledgeable and people oriented technology assessors. For you, libre technology is a labour of love. If so, this is a unique opportunity to take things one level up. As assessor, you have a critical role at the cutting edge of free and open source software & hardware, open standards, open data and open science."
At #OpenSSFDay the US government is praised for their effort for supporting software security through #FOSS. Rightfully so. I know in Europe the European Commission and national government are doing great things as well including through #NGI via #NLNet Would be great of this can be highlighted some way, perhaps through collaboration with #OpenSSF
One of the few organizations that has consistently granted money to Fediverse projects is NLNet in the Netherlands.
We just received confirmation that one of the principals from #NLNet is coming to #FediForum next week, will talk a bit about how to get #funding from NLNet and answer your questions.
It's notorious difficult to get questions answered from people who fund things. So this is a rare opportunity.
I'm guessing the progress in ActivityPub support in Discourse and GitLab, and the emergence of threadiverse, will all be adding both motivation and complexity to the job of adding federation support to Flarum.
The NLnet foundation has played a significant role in the fediverse, with their financial support for most major projects. In this piece I meet some of the people behind NLnet, and get to know the foundation.
Security by isolation sounds simple enough, but in actuality requires a lot of work and maintenance. Operating systems that can compartmentalize programs and processes are very hardware-specific and the virtual machines they run require regular and complicated upkeep. The Spectrum operating system takes a different and simpler approach: all data on the system is stored in one place and applications that need access to that data are isolated and specifically told what information they can and cannot access, even within the same application. For example, when you want your word processor to access certain files when you are working and other documents when you are at home, you can create two versions or simulations (called instances in Spectrum) with specific access rights. Users can keep a clear overview of their system and applications, as well as the various instances they create, by simply writing all this down in a configuration text. A system called Nix takes this text and creates all the software that the user has written down. Each program can be updated separately, without worries that other parts will break or become incompatible. #spectrumos#nlnet https://nlnet.nl/project/Spectrum/
\o/ It seems my proposal has been accepted for funding by NLNet & NGI0 Entrust, there's gonna be a lot more OPRF based free software be available soon. #klutshnik#opaque#sphinx#oprf#nlnet#ngi0
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!
Hi everyone, it seems that we have quite a gathering here, and many of you I haven't had the chance to greet yet :) As some of you may know, /kbin is still in its early stages of development. Every day, improvements and new features are being worked on. Unfortunately, this may result in occasional short downtimes. However, the...
Recommendations, please, for making an #XMPP audio/video call work between:
a user on iOS and a user on Android
a user on iOS and a user on Linux
Messaging works fine, as does a/v between Linux and Android, but I have yet to find a combination which works for audio / video with an iOS device in the mix.
@neil if you self host (or not), #Snikket works quite well, which is based on #Siskin IM on #iOS and #Conversations on #Android. On GNU/Linux, #Dino is working, otherwise #Movim and #Converse should work (web clients). I believe they all work between themselves (for one2one calls).
Be sure to have an XMPP server with STUN/TURN activated (it's precious to cross NAT/Firewalls).
For the record, I'm implementing A/V calls in #Libervia too, thanks to an #NLnet grant.
🎉 This summer we will be working on making events published on #WordPress sites part of the #Fediverse. Thanks to #NLnet, we are able to give the project the attention it needs!
🎉 This summer we will be working on making events created on #WordPress sites part of the #Fediverse. Thanks to #NLnet, we are able to give the project the attention it needs. :mastolove:
The tl;dr is that we are bringing #moggie from "a thing Bjarni hacks on as often as he can", to "a new terminal mode e-mail client which people should be able to use."
If you run "guix pull" today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program---something that had never been achieved, to our knowledge, since the birth of Unix: a Full-Source Bootstrap.
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.
#OX (XEP-0373, XEP-0374: #OpenPGP for #XMPP, without security problems of historical XEP-0027) implementation has been merged to #Libervia, thanks to Syndace again, and #NLnet for their funding.
OX doesn't have PFS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy) but that means that new devices can access archives, which may be desirable. Also, it can encrypt arbitrary elements.
Meet NLnet, the foundation supporting many fediverse projects (fediversereport.com)
The NLnet foundation has played a significant role in the fediverse, with their financial support for most major projects. In this piece I meet some of the people behind NLnet, and get to know the foundation.
/kbin - Sunny June Announcement
Hi everyone, it seems that we have quite a gathering here, and many of you I haven't had the chance to greet yet :) As some of you may know, /kbin is still in its early stages of development. Every day, improvements and new features are being worked on. Unfortunately, this may result in occasional short downtimes. However, the...