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Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet It is wonderful to see the growing number of people working on digital commons, inventing and improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity. 42 of such projects have been selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.
The main focus of this grant is achieving stability, but on the side there will be work on userspace integration with systemd, reworking the cryptographic API to be more robust, as well as adding the potential for users to generate telemetry data - in order to capture edge cases in the real-world. The "Open Terms Archive vendor lock-in break" project aims at replacing the hardcoded interconnections with proprietary software with standardized APIs and connectors for at least one open-source platform for issue reporting, email notifications, dataset distribution, and RSS feeds publishing, while keeping compatibility with existing integrations that are used by community members. The "Open Terms Archive vendor lock-in break" project aims at replacing the hardcoded interconnections with proprietary software with standardized APIs and connectors for at least one open-source platform for issue reporting, email notifications, dataset distribution, and RSS feeds publishing, while keeping compatibility with existing integrations that are used by community members.
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