NLnet Foundation

We are happy to announce 9 projects have been selected for grants. They'll contribute to the efforts of NGI Mobifree, a pilot program working on a more ethical & human-centered mobile landscape, and NGI Fediversity a hosting stack bringing easy-to-use, portable cloud services to everyone.
We want to thank the project teams for their contributions to the Next Generation Internet.

Read all about the technologies they are building here:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250905-new-grants-mobifree-fediversity.html

#NGI #NGI0 #FOSS #fossfunding

We're happy to announce three projects will be funded to contribute to the TALER secure electronic payment system based on open standards, free software, and advanced cryptography.

The three projects are:
Libre Payments in Ruby, a GNU Taler Integration for ethical trade.
Taler in Liberapay, an implementation of Taler as payment provider in Liberapay.
And Taler OpenAPI specification, a JSON/YAML OpenAPI for key GNU Taler API's.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250901-New-projects-NGI-Taler.html

@NGI_TALER

#NGI #FOSS #TALER

We have a new job opening for Tech Assessor.
As assessor, you have a critical role at the cutting edge of free and open source software & hardware. Together with your fellow assessors you curate our project portfolio, and actively keep it awesome and coherent by helping to select the right efforts — and support the teams involved throughout the project lifecycle.

If this is something you might be interested in check out the job description: https://nlnet.nl/foundation/jobs/assessor.html

#FOSS #getfedihired

The open Office Hour is starting now. You can find the link to the matrix room here: https://nlnet.nl/officehour/
It's text based interactions.

You're invited to drop in on our open Office Hour tomorrow. If you have any questions about our funding programs or anything else, you can ask them there. Everyone is welcome.
It's tomorrow Wednesday August 27 at 16.00 CEST.

You can find the link to the Matrix room here: https://nlnet.nl/officehour/

#foss #fundingfoss

Commons Caretakers has a job opening for a coordinator for the NGI0 support services. Grantees of NGI0 funds can request a wide range of services, from technical writing to UX advice. The coordinator, well, coordinates between the support providers and the grantees.
You'll be working closely together with NLnet's Technology Assessors to support project teams.

Location is hybrid: partly remote and partly in-office in the Netherlands.

https://www.commonscaretakers.com/services/work-with-us-coordinator.html

#getfedihired #foss #NGI0

Flock XR is a visual creativity & coding tool that allows young people to create 3D experiences in a web browser.

Catherine Elliott, of the Flock XR project wanted to find out how it can be used to engage learners with social emotional and mental health needs. She engaged a group of 12-14 year olds who were not only asked to build a 3D project but also to act as beta testers, a task they quite enjoyed.

You can read Catherine's blog the post here:

https://sheffieldclc.net/programming-3d-worlds-in-flock-xr-with-students-with-social-emotional-and-mental-health-needs/

#NGI #NGI0

Just a reminder that today we'll host our first open office hour. Everyone welcome at 16.00 CEST in our Matrix room.

And from then on recurring every last Wednesday of the month.

Looking forward to chat this afternoon :)

https://nlnet.nl/events/20250730/Office-hour/index.html

This time next week we'll have our first NLnet office hour. Every last Wednesday of the month we'll be available for a chat at 16.00 CEST. It is open to anyone for questions or remarks. As this is our first session, we're very interested to learn what kind of topics will come up. And if there are any suggestions about the office hour itself, we're also keen to hear it.

For a link to the Matrix room see: https://nlnet.nl/events/20250730/Office-hour/index.html

#NGI0 #FOSS #fundingfoss

Starting this month we will hold a monthly office hour. Everyone with a question, a remark or wanting to have a chat is welcome. It will be every last Wednesday of the month at 4 P.M. CEST at https://matrix.to/#/#officehours:nlnet.nl.

We're going to the NGI Forum June 19-20 in Brussels and you are warmly invited to come too. Participation is free as in free beer.
There's a great line-up with NGI Zero funded projects like @Mastodon @rosenpass @nextgraph @servo & @CryptPad
Michiel Leenaars, our director of strategy, will be joining the panel 'Forging European Digital Sovereignty through an Open Internet Stack'.
This event brings policymakers & internet makers together. Hope to see you there!
https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/
#NGI #NGI0

The Open Web Index goes public on June 6!
For over two years OpenWebSearch.eu has worked on a federated pan-European Open Web Index to promote independent web search. In June @openwebsearcheu will make almost a petabyte (and growing) of open web data available to anyone who is interested.
Join the kick-off event to learn how to access and use the Open Web index.
https://openwebsearch.eu/june-event-announcement-the-open-web-index-goes-public/

#NGI #Search

We spotted Tiliqua in the wild at Superbooth 2025 at the Synthlab Berlin stand! So now we have a picture :).
Tiliqua by @apfelaudio is an open-hardware Digital Sound Processing (DSP) library and reference hardware design which aims to make FPGA-based audio and video synthesis accessible for musicians and engineers.
Coincidentally: They're now running a crowdsource campaign where you can get your own Teliqua (and more)
https://www.crowdsupply.com/apfaudio/tiliqua

We'll be going to @tdose this year, hope to see you there!

T-DOSE (Technical Dutch Open Source Event) 2025 will happen on 31 May and 1 June at the Weeffabriek in Geldrop

We'll be bringing lots of hex stickers & you ask us anything about #FOSS funding.

Congratulations @trifectatech for having sudo-rs become the default in @ubuntu!

https://trifectatech.org/blog/memory-safe-sudo-to-become-the-default-in-ubuntu/

We're delighted to welcome on board 11 #FOSS projects that will contribute to the 3 NGI Pilot programmes.
Mobifree (liberating the mobile landscape) will get support from F-Droid, FindMyDevice, Unexpected Keyboard & Solid Digital Wallet.
Taler (Privacy-preserving digital payments) is helped by Taler-Dolibarr Integration, Contributron, xBSD & TalerPHP.
And Fediversity (building the future's hosting stack) will be strengthened by bewCloud & SelfPrivacy.
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250421-project-selection-pilots.html
#NGI0 #NGI

With the NGI Mobifree Pilot we work on more ethical mobile software. Consortium partner @waag is looking for app developers who'd like to volunteer as testers.
You'll be testing Murena Fairphone (on loan), F-Droid & Repomaker. There will be 2 in-person meetings and weekly requests for feedback. Because of the in-person meetings it's aimed at people who live in the Netherlands.

Registration is open till April 10. For more info: https://waag.org/en/article/testers-wanted-open-source-smartphone-software/

NGI Zero partner CCBV is looking for a freelance technical writer with cryptographic expertise. You'll be helping out free and open source projects in the cryptographic space with their technical writing needs. This kind of practical support is part of the NGI0 funding programs.
It's a part-time, freelance role with the amount of work depending on the number of requests for support. Check CCBV for more info and contact details for questions.
https://www.commonscaretakers.com/services/work-with-us.html

#getfedhired #FOSS #NGI0

The Flow Battery Research Collective (FBRC) are building an open source battery. Technology writer Koen Vervloesem did a nice write-up about their #FOSDEM talk in the Energy devroom. FBRC works on redox flow batteries which are better suited for long-term, stationary storage and less hazardous than Li-ion batteries. FBRC plan to democratize flow battery technology by developing an open source flow battery, starting with a development kit.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1011730/

#OSHW #battery #NGI0

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