NGI Zero open source funding @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz

Hi there! Are you an avid free software user or open source developer? NGI Zero is an R&D funding program for open source software & hardware to enhance online privacy and improve open search and discovery. Together with @fsfe, @APC, Radically Open Security, Translate House and many more we fund and support projects like @pixelfed, @delta, @cryptpad... Check it out here -> https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGIZeroDiscovery.html and here -> https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGIZeroPET.html or submit your own idea to make the internet a better place!

Save the date! Following our webinars on #ActivityPub and #openhardware, on June 21st we bring together #NextGenerationInternet projects working on Linked Data (and other forms of metadata). We are excited to have for example @pukkamustard talk about openEngiadina & DREAM, showcase the awesome low code app dev solution Corteza (and its upcoming JSON-LD support) and many more awesome (semantic) projects! -> https://nlnet.nl/events/20210621/LinkedData/. As always, no signup needed, just join :)

Missed our #openhardware session last Tuesday? Check out the recording here -> https://nlnet.nl/news/2021/20210507-NGI-Zero-workshop-open-hardware.html. You can also read the presentation and slides of amongst others @Chips4Makers, @leviathan & other state-of-the-art projects developing open source software, tools and designs for truly transparent and permissionless technological innovation. Following these presentations is an industry panel with amongst others @bunniestudios on the future of #openhardware in the EU semiconductor space.

Finally, don't forget to join our #openhardware workshop we host at 15:00 CEST! First innovative @NGIZero-funded projects like Libresilicon @leviathan, @Chips4Makers, LibrEDA, Libre-SoC, Openwifi & SpinalHDL present their innovative system-on-chips, parts & tools for open hardware & trustworthy devices. Then an industry panel with @bunniestudios, @OlofKindgren, Sally Ward-Foxton of the EE Times & Jana Nieder of INL discuss the role of open source in future EU chips -> https://2021.ngiforum.eu/workshops?session=87761&track_id=16656

We are also excited to see #opensource take center stage during NGI Forum! Open source knowledge transfer specialist @Gijs, Piotr Król from 3mdeb Embedded Systems Consulting (working on Trenchboot -> https://nlnet.nl/project/OpenDRTM/), Roberto Di Cosmo from Software Heritage & others will look into trends & future prospects of open source -> https://2021.ngiforum.eu/agenda?session=84221&track_id=16170&track_id=16179

Later today Adrian Perrig of ETH Zurich and the SCION 'clean slate' internet architecture (https://nlnet.nl/project/SCION-geo/ and https://nlnet.nl/project/SCION-Swarm/) joins a panel discussion with @rubenverborgh professor of decentralized web tech & others on the future developments of the internet architecture -> https://2021.ngiforum.eu/agenda?session=84220&track_id=16170&track_id=16179

The Next Generation Internet Forum is now live! Want to know more about what this internet R&D plan actually does (and find out some awesome open source & hardware tech funded by @NGIZero?) Join 2021.ngiforum.eu (if you do not want to register, there is a livestream to view there). Today you can catch:
- Michiel Leenaars of the NLnet foundation (which spearheads NGI Zero) and Elen Eisendle @ln presenting EDeA, a platform for modular open hardware sharing at https://2021.ngiforum.eu/agenda?session=84217&track_id=16170&track_id=16179

@Chips4Makers @libresilicon.com

The second session looks forward to a future EU silicon ecosystem w industry and policy panelists discussing the role of open source in a resurgent European semiconductor landscape, moderated by Rob Taylor LibreCores and Chipflow. Panelists include:

Bunnie Huang @bunniestudios from Betrusted, Precursor, Novena
Olof Kindgren, director of the FOSSi foundation, RISC-V ambassador
Representatives from Imec (to be confirmed)

https://nlnet.nl/news/2021/20210507-NGI-Zero-workshop-open-hardware.html

The workshop is split across two sessions. The first covers state-of-the-art projects funded by the Next Generation Internet through @NGIZero that showcase open hardware tools & components for trustworthy computing (https://nlnet.nl/news/2021/20210507-NGI-Zero-workshop-open-hardware.html):
Thomas Kramer from LibrEDA
Staf Verhaegen from @Chips4Makers
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from Libre-SOC
David Lanzendoerfer from @libresilicon.com
Xianjun Jiao from Openwifi
and finally Charles Papon from SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and SaxonSoc

Want to know more about the Next Generation Internet initiative? Join us Tuesday at the Next Generation Internet Forum (2021.ngiforum.eu) as we discuss the state of European hardware and how #openhardware could make our technology more trustworthy, ensure digital sovereignty and promote permission-free innovation. Sign up for this open hardware workshop here (https://2021.ngiforum.eu/workshops?session=87761&track_id=16656) or if you do not want to register, join the workshop directly (https://nlnet.nl/news/2021/20210507-NGI-Zero-workshop-open-hardware.html). See you soon! 🙌 ⭐ 👋

@datatitian also showed off the awesome #immers virtual and augmented reality space, which of course can federate (as was demonstrated with avatars jumping around and commenting their experiences live on the fediverse). Check it out, open a room, join the immersive federated web -> https://web.immers.space/.

Last Thursday we demonstrated #ActivityPub to European & national administrations with a live install & demonstration of #peertube and #mastodon by @how for the European Data Protection Supervisor (which aims to join the fediverse soon!). In case you missed it, here is the recording -> https://conf.tube/videos/watch/e4cc80ba-f44d-4294-8812-e409f221f5ad?start=0s From the first install commands to sharing videos, moderating & comments in a little more than half an hour 🤩

@recorder How is the weather there 👋

@admin Let's see if I can get some activity (heh) on there.

@admin trying out to connect to a Drupal-instance for the sake of testing