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).
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.
@NGIZero That sounds great, but unfortunately with no #CodeOfConduct, no #HealthPolicy and with a lineup of 4 white male keynote speakers it doesn't appear to be the kind of safe or inclusive space that I'd be comfortable in.
@dentangle@NGIZero I'm honestly disappointed that this isn't the first NGI EU event that doesn't have an explicit #codeofconduct while this may be a new thing for industries like banking, we have no excuse in Tech for that. There was an NGI event earlier this year and I checked. No code of conduct, let alone a health policy.
We need to do better otherwise you won't really have a diverse community attending.
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.
Also, can we use this opportunity to get rid of the mistakes made before? Have a browser that really only does browsing: No account/login and instead provide an API to store bookmarks and passwords in separate apps (which may or may not sync). IMHO, even triggering search itself could be removed and the browser really reduced to a web viewer.
This would improve switching b/w browsers, free users from requiring a Google/Microsoft/Mozilla ... account and overall integrate browsers better into the OS.
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.
As one of the projects that benefited from the #SummerOfNix last year, we can say that packaging a #FOSS project for a distribution you love is an immense public good. It helps the distribution of projects and helps to strengthen that distribution as well.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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
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."
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.
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.
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).