We are happy to welcome on board seven free and open source projects that will contribute to the three NGI Pilot programmes. Pilots focus on a specific problem: NGI Taler works on privacy-preserving digital payments, NGI Fediversity builds the hosting stack of the future and NGI Mobifree is liberating the mobile landscape. Each Pilot has a dedicated consortium working on it but part of its budget - kindly provided by the European Commission - is reserved for third party funding. Through rolli...