Your attention please:
Maybe you've never heard about it but since 2020, the Next Generation Internet programs, a sub-branch of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program, have been cascading funding (via @nlnet calls) open source software in Europe. The massive fundings have enabled a great deal of free software development in recent years, and all without too many constraints (with too few transparency and monitoring, though… which urgently needs to be improved). Unfortunately, these NGI programs seem to have been withdrawn from the next round of Horizon Europe fundings to give priority to AI bullshit.
As a result, we’ve been invited to contact the National Contact Points, Horizon Europe’s national representatives, to express our concern and the importance of maintaining public funding for free software. With this in mind, we wrote an open letter at Petites Singularités and thought it would make sense to fork it out with Hackstub and ARN in Strasbourg for the French NCP to get other French-speaking free software orgas to sign. I’m thinking in particular of the software that has benefited from this funding, such as Yunohost, but also of the Kittens that use this same software.
We can also announce that this topic will be part of the central theme of the next #OFFDEM in Brussels, on the first weekend of February 2025. There's not yet an exact title, but we’ll be discussing financing and community structuring for free software over the next few years.
If you want to sign the french-speaking version of this letter, there's a pad for it: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI
Jens Finkhäuser 🌻
in reply to Hackstub • • •I'd sign with @interpeer , but I would need an English text.
Also, automatic translation seems a bit confusing. It seems to say that NGI has been dropped from cluster 4, but then lists NGI topics for cluster 4? That may need some rewording, or is just a translation artefact.
A link to the source for this on the EU websites may also be helpful to add to the text.
Bi—zaar
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General “Find your NCP”:
https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/find-your-ncp
Specific Cluster 4 NCPs (dedicated to digital matters):
https://www.ideal-ist.eu/representatives
General Cluster 4 NCPs (on Funding & Tenders Portal):
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General “Find your NCP”:
https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/find-your-ncp
Specific Cluster 4 NCPs (dedicated to digital matters):
https://www.ideal-ist.eu/representatives
General Cluster 4 NCPs (on Funding & Tenders Portal):
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