NLnet announces funding for 42 FOSS projects
The NLnet Foundation has announced the projects that have received funding from its October call for grant proposals from the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Commons Fund.
The selected projects all contribute, one way or another, to the mission of the Commons Fund: reclaiming the public nature of the internet. For example, there are people working on interesting open hardware projects such as the tablet MNT Reform Touch and the Solar FemtoTX motherboard — a collaborative effort to create an ultra-low power motherboard that can run on solar power. LLM2FPGA aims to enable running open source LLMs locally on programmable chips ("FPGAs") using a fully open-source toolchain. bcachefs readies itself as the next generation filesystem for Linux, improving performance, scalability and reliability when compared to legacy filesystems.
In all, 42 projects have been selected for the NGI grants which are between €5,000 and €50,000. See the announcement for the full list of selected projects, and the current projects page for other recent projects funded by NLnet.
Posted Apr 25, 2025 14:44 UTC (Fri)
by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
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Surprised, but also elated, to see bcachefs in the list. Way to go!
The link to the NLnet project page says "/bcachefs-crypto-API/", but the text of the page only mentions "cryptographic API" in passing:
> 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
Just curious, what's the story here? And exactly how many strings did the grant come with (of course, if you're at liberty to disclose this)?
Posted Apr 27, 2025 23:58 UTC (Sun)
by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188)
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cheers for bcachefs
cheers for bcachefs