German government's sovereign tech fund starts funding 7 open source projects

by riedel • 4 years ago

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riedel• 4 years ago

We are excited to kick off the Sovereign Tech Fund with a pilot round of projects. The pilot is an opportunity to showcase examples of open digital infrastructure, and to test the model we outlined in our feasibility study published in 2021. The following projects will receive funding starting October 2022: OpenMLS curl OpenBGPd Bundler/RubyGems WireGuard OpenPGP.js/GopenPGP OpenSSH

ZeroGravitas• 4 years ago

I like the idea of combining this with the recent ideas around semi-automatically distributing funds to dependencies.

So these all seem like core dependencies and sure, you can just have a human being decide what is a core dependency, but if we could automate that in a way that lets new core dependencies slowly develop and attract funding and investment, that would be cool.

German government's sovereign tech fund starts funding 7 open source projects

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