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Germany to Fund Open Source Software Maintainers Through New Fellowship Program (fossforce.com)

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund unveils a program to fund maintainers of open source projects that's expected to be operational by year's end.

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[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

No.

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/applications#requirements

Take a look.

Though, if you have not heard of the program before, you're probably not involved with a project that qualifies.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 13 points 3 months ago

We invest in projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem. Examples include libraries for programming languages, package managers, open implementations of communication protocols, administration tools for developers, digital encryption technologies, and more

Wow, some countries are trying to make encryption tech illegal while Germany is just throwing money at tech that could bypass those laws. Amazing.

[-] timestatic@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Some german politicians have also tried time and time again to establish data retention policies because "think of the kids" argument blablabla. But so far they have failed to do that as it was proclaimed unconstitutional by our federal court. Some politicians play with the idea from time to time tho.