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NGIZero, 10 hours 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 days ago to foss

Congratulations BlueHats @codegouvfr for the Projects of Social Benefit Award from @fsf!

The jury said: "The French Free Software Unit has made great strides in increasing the use of free software like LibreOffice into the daily departmental work of the French government, a space where nonfree software like Office365 typically dominates."

Also congrats to Bruno Haible and @nlogozzo for their awards!
https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-awards-winners-announced-bruno-haible-french-free-software-unit-nick-logozzo

#FOSS

NGIZero, 6 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, 11 days ago to opensource

Join us in less than an hour for a tech talk with Andrew "bunnie" Huang. He's currently working on IRIS: (Infra-Red, In-Situ) inspection of silicon, a project to facilitate the non-destructive verification of silicon chips.

There will be lots of time for questions and comments as he is interested to hear peoples' thoughts about IRIS.

Today at 11.00 CEST (Brussels time) / 17.00 SGT (Singapore time). For the link to the BBB video room see: https://nlnet.nl/events/20240502/index.html.

#openhardware #opensource

NGIZero, 14 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, 18 days 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, 25 days 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, 26 days 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

dcz, 1 month ago to android

@NGIZero Thanks for acknowledging my application!

One "but". You wrote

"You've applied to the Mobifree Fund, which is focused on the Android ecosystem."

except https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/ doesn't contain the word #android. I had an "oh sh-" moment because my project is about #linuxmobile .

Who's wrong, the web site or the email? You might want to fix one.

tynstar, 1 month ago to opensource

Any experienced C developers among my followers? #BoostsWelcome.

Expat, arguably the world's most popular #XML parser, is understaffed and without funding. As #xz has shown, situations like this are dangerous.

Last month, maintainer Sebastian Pipping put up a plea for help at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

(I would help myself, but my C skills barely surpass "Hello, World".)

Found via @timbray - https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/112203547801373427

#libexpat
#SoftwareSupplyChainSecurity #OpenSource #OpenSourceMaintainer
#C

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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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/