GNU Mes was created to address the security concerns that arise from bootstrapping an operating system using large, unauditable binary blobs, which is common practice for all software distributions. Mes is a Scheme interpreter written in a simple subset of C and a C compiler written in Scheme that comes with a small, bootstrappable C library. The final goal is to help create a full source bootstrap for any interested UNIX-like operating system. This funding will enable GNU Mes to work on the ...| nlnet.nl
Today NLnet and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) are launching the first public connection in the Netherlands to the SCION network, a new and safer Internet architecture. To showcase this new connection, a live demonstration is located in the CWI Library that allows researchers and visitors to experience SCION firsthand. The demonstration explores how SCION might help address some of the Internet’s most pressing challenges. It is especially relevant for vital sectors that depend on reli...| NLnet news
The First Dutch Free and Open Source SCION Connection - Interview with Hans-Dieter Hiep| nlnet.nl
Julian Stirling (left) and Valarian Sanga, co-founder of BTech, assembling microscopes. [1]| NLnet news
New wave of projects to create digital commons| nlnet.nl
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If you have in-depth knowledge of a specific domain you can consider to work as an expert for the European Commission (EC). The EC has many funding programs such as Horizon Europe. Applications for funding are assessed by independent experts. The EC is currently actively inviting people to register as an expert. It is important work and the time investment is remunerated.| NLnet news
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Deadline for submission: August 1st 2025 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
We are delighted to welcome on board eleven free and open source projects that will contribute to the three NGI Pilot programmes. These pilot programmes each focus on a specific domain: 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 dedicated part of its budget — kindly provided by the European Commission — for supporting smaller projects that contribute to t...| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: June 1st 2025 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: April 1st 2025 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
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...| NLnet news
Michiel Leenaars| NLnet news
Happy 2025 everyone! On this first day of the fresh new year we are happy to announce 50 project teams were selected to receive NGI Zero grants. We are welcoming projects from 18 countries involving people and organisations of various types: individuals, associations, small and medium enterprises, foundations, universities, and informal collectives. The new projects are all across the different layers of the NGI technology stack: from trustworthy open hardware to services & applications which...| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: February 1st 2025 (noon CET)| NLnet news
We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the first "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom at FOSDEM 2025. Submission deadline is December 1. Read the Call for Participation for all the details on how to submit.| NLnet news
We'd like to congratulate the two teams who have been selected for NGI Taler grants in the programme's second open call. Interledger interoperability inquiry will investigate the synergy between Interledger and GNU Taler. GNU Taler Tryton/GNUHealth integration will develop a Tryton module which enables users to integrate payments with Taler into their webshops.| NLnet news
Congratulations to the first four project teams who have been selected for financial support within the NGI Mobifree pilot programme. The selected projects are Android translation layer, LambdaNative F-Droid integration, OpenAGPS and Termux. Through their work, they will be contributing to the NGI Mobifree pilot which aims to create a fair mobile software ecosystem that prioritises privacy and openness.| NLnet news
Monitoring Plugins| NLnet news
In the April 2024 round of the NGI Zero Commons Fund, 32 projects have been selected to receive funding for research and development. The programme offers financial and practical support to free and open source projects that reclaim the public nature of the internet.| NLnet news
In the April 2024 round of the NGI Zero Core programme 49 projects have been selected to receive funding for research and development. The programme supports people and organizations who are contributing to an open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all. Financial and practical support is offered to projects developing alternatives and improvements to core internet hardware, software and protocols.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: December 1st 2024 (noon CET)| NLnet news
Flag with hexagons from NGI Assure projects.NGI Assure, the programme aimed at improving trust in our digital society, successfully concluded on August 31, 2024. During its four year run, NGI Assure financially supported 152 Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects that contribute to a more trustworthy and secure internet. In total over 5.6 million Euro was awarded, averaging a financial contribution of on average 40,000 Euro per project.| NLnet news
We'd like to congratulate the five teams who have been selected for NGI Taler grants in the program's first open call. Taler(Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Resources) is a new secure electronic payment system based on open standards, free software, and advanced cryptography. The five selected projects will make specific contributions to Taler:GNU Taler Wallet ID Lookup Service will provide the optional discovery of wallet addresses linked to digital identities| NLnet news
Filip Skokan, maintainer of the node-oidc-provider project, is awarded the second BlueHats prize of 2024. Filip started the free and open source project in 2015 has maintained it ever since. node-oidc-provider provides an OAuth 2.0 (RFC 6749) Authorization Server with support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) and many other additional standards for the Node.js open-source and cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: October 1st 2024 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
The NGI Mobifree project aims to alter the landscape of mobile software through a commitment to ethical practices, user empowerment, and sustainability. Spearheaded by the E Foundation, the project unites twelve organizations in a collaborative effort to challenge the status quo of mobile technology development. Mobifree is made possible with funding of the European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative.| NLnet news
Listen to the podcast Projets Libres titled NLnet Foundation: Funding Free Software in Europe. Podcaster Walid interviews Lwenn Bussière,Technology Assessor at NLnet, about the NGI Zero funding programmes and NLnet.| NLnet news
Apply for the Summer of Nix 2024 to join one of four teams in making selected free and open source software (FOSS) projects work reliably on a whim using Nix and NixOS. The deadline for applicants is May 10, 2024.| NLnet news
Dr. Melanie Rieback, co-founder and CEO of Radically Open Security| NLnet news
Prof Dr. Frances Brazier| NLnet news
dnsmasq| NLnet news
We are happy to announce 41 new projects to our portfolio. That effectively means hundreds of people across the world working on great ideas that contribute to the Next Generation Internet and a more open information society. The 41 new projects will be part of two different NGI Zero programmes: NGI0 Entrust (which supports people who are working on privacy and trust enhancing technologies) in its final round sees no less than 30 teams receiving funding. The NGI0 Core program welcomed 11 proj...| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: June 1st 2024 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
“Email is a minuscule text file that you transmit across the internet. To claim that you don’t have the competence to arrange that yourself is a sign of administrative incompetence”, said Michiel Leenaars, NLnet's Director of Strategy in an interview on Radio 1 (In Dutch). He responded to a recent report of the thinktank Clingendael Institute which warns that the Dutch government has squandered cloud sovereignty by outsourcing storing vital and sensitive information to American providers.| NLnet news
With Martin Schanzenbach, Bernd Fix and Stephen Farrell| NLnet news
Talks by NLnet on FOSDEM 2024| NLnet news
Journalist Maurits Martijn is writing a series on his search for a better internet for the independent journalistic platform De Correspondent. If that's what you're looking for you'll inevitably end up with free and open source. In that light he wrote a portrait of NLnet Foundation which financially supports #FOSS projects based on an interview with Michiel Leenaars, Director of Strategy. The article is titled: Deze Nederlandse club zorgt voor een internet dat wél voor iedereen werkt. (This ...| NLnet news
An invitation to researchers, innovators and computing centres to join the quest for a new Internet Search in Europe| NLnet news
We are happy to announce 41 new projects have been awarded an NGI Zero grant. That means 41 teams and individuals working on great ideas that contribute to the Next Generation Internet. Projects cover eight of the ten layers of the NGI technology stack, from trustworthy open hardware to services and applications which provide autonomy for end-users.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: April 1st 2024 (noon CET)| NLnet news
NGI0 Commons Fund will award € 21.6 million in grants for the development of open digital technologies| NLnet news
The French public administration is awarding four € 10 000 prizes to maintainers of free and open source projects. Its Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in the spotlight and award them the BlueHats 2024 prizes. BlueHats are civil servants who promote using and developing Free Software in public administrations.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: February 1st 2024 (noon CET)| NLnet news
We are happy to announce 55 new projects have been awarded an NGI Zero grant. That means 55 teams and individuals working on great ideas that contribute to the Next Generation Internet. Projects cover all ten layers of the NGI technology stack, from trustworthy open hardware to services and applications which provide autonomy for end-users.| NLnet news
Today five years ago, the NGI Zero coalition went live with a clear mission: to make a better internet for everyone. A mission that by its nature is a collaborative effort which is why we have a distributed approach to fixing the internet. We invite anyone who has a good plan to develop fundamentally better technologies to come and “work for the internet”. And over these five years many have done so. Next week the 500thNGI0 project will start its important work.| NLnet news
"Let's take alternative paths away from big tech websites"| NLnet news
"We should not rely on search engines to free us from the effort to know the world"| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: December 1st 2023 (noon CET)| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: October 1st 2023 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
TETRA Transceiver station| NLnet news
State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen| NLnet news
Watch the recording of the webinar on OpenChain ISO standards and certification by Shane Coughlan. In this fourth and final episode of the webinar series on open source software supply chain management Shane Coughlan discusses how to build trust by process management. He talks about OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020, the international standard for open source license compliance and ISO/IEC DIS 18974, OpenChain Security Assurance Specification which is slated to become accepted as a standard later t...| NLnet news
The recording of Carlo Piana & Alberto Pianon webinar is now available online. They talk about the importance of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in light of the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and product liability legislation in Europe.| NLnet news
Watch the recording of the webinar Tooling: Software Supply Chain Management Automation with "open source on open source" by Philippe Ombredanne. In this second episode of the webinar series on software supply chain management Philippe Ombredanne discusses tooling. On the 32-minute mark he provides live demo's of ScanCode: a server to script and automate the process of Software Composition Analysis and VulnerableCode: a free and open database of software package vulnerabilities. | NLnet news
Armijn Hemel, MSc, is the owner of Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions. Mr Hemel studied computer science at Utrecht University, where he explored reproducible builds by building the first prototype of NixOS, a Linux distribution built around the Nix build system, where reproducibility and provenance is central. Since 2005 he has been focusing on open source license compliance and supply chain management in the (consumer) electronics industry, first on the license enforcement side as part o...| NLnet news
The TerosHDL team has completed their NGI project. TerosHDL is an open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Hardware Description Language (HDL) developers. The goal of TerosHDL is to provide HDL developers with the same functionalities available to software developers. NGI funding went towards improving the stability of TerosHDL, the creation of a command line version and simplifying the Graphical User Interface (GUI).| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: August 1st 2023 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
The Rosenpass project was released on February 26, 2023. Rosenpass is formally verifiable, state-of-the-art Post Quantum Cryptography which protects against attacks with so-called 'quantum computers'. It initially primarily affects Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In the future, it may very well be adapted to other key elements of today’s internet security, preserving trust and safety in the coming quantum era.| NLnet news
The TypeCell Notebooks repository has been released! TypeCell is a collaborative open source TypeScript live programming environment which aims to make software development more open, simple and accessible. It integrates a live programming environment as a first-class citizen in an end-user block-based document editor. The open source platform enables users to instantly inspect and edit the software they’re using. It's a collaboratibve code editor that enables multiple users to work on the ...| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: April 1st 2023 (noon CET)| NLnet news
Join NLnet Foundation at FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels (4–5 February 2023), meet up with representatives from interesting projects in person and check out interesting presentations of various projects funded by our grants.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: February 1st 2023 (noon CET)| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: December 1st 2022 (noon CET)| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: October 1st 2022 (noon CET)| NLnet news
Apply before: August 2nd 2022| NLnet news
Life-time achievement award recognises significant contribution to a more open society| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: June 1st 2022 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
One of the three pillars of the NGI initiative is resilience. We have come to depend on the internet for many things, and many societal pathways we used to have are now replaced by digital equivalents. This makes it extremely awkward when regular internet access is suddenly no longer available or becomes unreliable, due a natural disaster, warfare or some other reason. However, society should not come to a halt at that point: in such cases, perhaps more than in normal circumstances, people ne...| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: April 1st 2022 (noon CES)| NLnet news
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Deadline for submission: December 1st 2021 (noon CES)| NLnet news
Train and work program packages customizable browser and open food database| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: October 1st 2021 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: August 1st 2021 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
NGI Zero chip projects showcase permission-free innovation at NGI Forum| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: June 1st 2021 (noon CEST)| NLnet news
Critical report on profiling practices and their effect on society| NLnet news
New round of grantees from NGI Zero| NLnet news
Check out NGI Zero-funded projects and tools this weekend| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: April 1st 2021 (noon CET)| NLnet news
New R&D grant programme on public benefit tech| NLnet news
Any technology running at internet scale needs to be secure, accessible, translatable, widely available and inclusive. That is why the NGI Zero consortium helps open source and open hardware projects meet these critical requirements and now offers their best practices for everyone who wants to help fix the internet.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: December 1st 2020 (noon CET)| NLnet news
End-to-end encryption can help protect your video chats from prying eyes or data leaks, which is even more important now we need to work and socialize remotely. Through the latest NGI Zero funding call NLnet supports new end-to-end encryption for the popular open source Jitsi Meet video chat solution, as well as a host of open source and open hardware projects that can create cross-system search, repairable and trustworthy laptops and peer-to-peer document editing.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: October 1st 2020 (noon)| NLnet news
The recent ability for video conferencing platform Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption to its paying customers was made possible with the help of a cutting edge research project from Europe. The new proprietary encryption protocol has been verified using the open source formal verification software Verifpal, which was developed in France with funding from the Next Generation Internet initiative. Until recently, such verification would have taken much longer to complete.| NLnet news
Deadline for submission: August 1st 2020 (noon)| NLnet news
NGI Zero supports research dealing with pandemic| NLnet news
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