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The European Commission has just launched a consultation on the EU’s future Open Source strategy. The Deadline is the 3rd of February.
The Strategy will cover:
- EU stance towards deploying Open Source software in the EU institutions.
- EU stance towards procurement of Open Source solutions.
- The EU’s own Open Source contributions.
- Funding for Open Source developers, companies, and foundations.
- Helping Open Source foundations to get established in Europe.
- Implementation of EU laws like the CRA.
- Future consultation of the Open Source community in lawmaking.
The EU has funded loads of Open Source projects (like Mastodon) through its Next-Generation Internet initiative. (You can see a full list here (all the ones with NGI))
That initiative is currently up for review.
If you want more funding from the EU for Open Source, now is the time to speak up!