Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

Summary

42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet It is wonderful to see the growing number of people working on digital commons, inventing and improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity. 42 of such projects have been selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. In terms of applications, it was the largest call round in NGI Zero's life time. And we'd like to take this space to thank all applicants for their contributions to an internet for people rather than for profit. 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 MNT Reform Touch (an open hardware tablet device) and the Solar FemtoTX motherboard — a collaborative effort to create an ultra-low power motherboard that can run on solar power. The Open Terms Archive offers public tracking of the evolution of terms and conditions to facilitate democratic oversight. LLM2FPGA aims to enable running open source LLMs locally on 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 and KDE Plasma Gestures will add multi-touch and stroke gestures to the Plasma Desktop. And that's just a small sample of the wide range of important contributions being worked on. Read on to meet all the projects selected in this funding round. If you applied for a grant This is the selection for the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund fund only. We always inform all applicants about the outcome of the review ahead of the public announcement, whether they are selected or not. If you have not heard anything, you probably applied to a later call or a different fund that is still under review. How do I find out which call round I applied to?You can see which call round you applied to by ch...