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Germany to Fund Open Source Software Maintainers Through New Fellowship Program (fossforce.com)

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund unveils a program to fund maintainers of open source projects that's expected to be operational by year's end.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

EU has a similar program called Horizon Europe, which spent around €95.5 billion so far. Though it's broader in scope, not limited to just software, but includes various open source research too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Would love if there was open source software hard budgeted in there on an EU level...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There has been for years: NLNet. It just got suspended by right-wingers. A lot of European projects were relying on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What? Crap, that's bad news

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