We've got some good news thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero 🎉
Librecast has been funded to do more awesome things with #multicast
Watch this space.
#ngi
ngi-commons-thanks
The problem of too big, Mastodon
I would start to say, with care, that #Mastodon is now heading in the wrong direction. Not because it’s inherently bad, or malicious, or “captured” in some conspiratorial sense. But because it’s become too dominant, tipping the scales far away from the diversity and messiness that a healthy #Fediverse needs.
This isn’t about blame, it’s about balance. To keep the #openweb alive and meaningful, we need to nurture other codebases, other, paths, cultures, and radically different […]
@ngi #NGI Open Internet Stack fits well into the new Stack we are finalizing today within the @ngisearch context to a new #OpenSearchEcosystem for #Technology towards linked open data based ontology development for #OpenSourceHardware and beyond:
NGI0 Commons Fund - EC's largest Open Source fund with 27M€ - is now operating in full speed and just announced its latest round of grantees: https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
Congratulations to the winners
#opensource #openhardware @nlnet #NGI
We are happy to share that 62 projects will receive grants from the NGI Zero Commons Fund. We congratulate the selected projects and look forward to their contributions to increasing society's digital autonomy.
Ranging from browser-based cellular networking to decentralised social media, and professional print, these projects are showing that a bright digital future is not only possible but already being built.
Come over and meet the projects!
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
@maskedwitch it's not a cryptocurrency, it's a payment system which is similar to paying in cash. It's anonymous for the sender, but not for the receiver, meaning that it can be checked (which is good against money laundering, tax evasion, etc.). It's also not using blockchain.
There is support to it, and it has been usable in Switzerland recently. It's also supported by NLnet/NGI.
Excellent participation and and interaction during Q&A of my talk about #GNUTaler at the #ngiforum25, titled "Digital Freedom meets Digital Payments".
If you are interested, here are the slides: https://www.kesim.org/ngi-forum-2025.pdf
@Jeremiah Thanks for live tooting the the Next Generation Internet Forum in Brussels.
Now presenting at #NGI Forum in Brussels
Webcast for #NGI forum today: https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/ngi-forum-2025-06-20
@ngisearch & @openwebsearcheu with #NGISargasso at the #NGIForum2025! ✨
Collaboration with the #NextGenerationInternet community is key to find potential synergies to shape the Internet of tomorrow aligned. 🚀
Thank you, @EC_NGI , for brining the European ecosystem of Internet innovators together in Brussels! 🌐 💡
Discover more about NGI Sargasso in our website https://ngisargasso.eu/ 🌊
#NGI #NGIForum25 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #OpenSource
The EU has been heavily involved in #opensource for years – but planned changes to the flagship funding programme are ruffling some feathers, especially because they have remained vague for months.
@netzpolitik_feed is publishing an internal document that at least gives a few hints to where the journey might be going, especially in terms of money. Also being debated: Changes to procurement and a new legal form for open source organisations.
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-internet-stack-the-eu-commissions-vague-plans-for-open-source/
🌐✨The #NGIForum25 kicked off with a powerful keynote by Thibaut Kleiner (EU Commission):
🔹 We’re building, not monetizing — much value lost
🔹 70% of open source communities are in Europe, but commercial gains go mostly to the US
🔹 Time to scale & monetize sustainable open solutions
🔹 Proud to introduce the Open Internet Stack, building on NGI pioneers
🔹 Let’s turn passion projects into strategic, revenue-generating engines
#OpenSource #NGI #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #Sustainability
Just listening to the speech of the @EUCommission's DG Connect Director Thibaut Kleiner, who celebrates #FOSS and the global ecosystem of #opensource developers as well as the #NGI programme but somehow his convictions seem to not be enough for the Commission to massively scale up investments in the #digitalcommons. What am I missing? 🤔
🇪🇺 Major moment at #NGIForum25! Thibaut Kleiner, director #DGCONNECT at the European Commission is delivering the keynote that's setting the strategic direction for Europe's digital sovregnity and future.
"We started the #NGI community 10 years ago. My message is that we are also at a stage where we need to move on. We need to go to the next stage. We want to go from communities to products and that's why we introduced this concept of Open Internet Stack," said Thibaut Kleiner.
Thank you @zelf for spotlighting Taler, XWiki, Rosenpass & Decidim — each pushing boundaries of #privacy, #digitalsovereignty, and open collaboration.
Let’s keep spreading the word 🌍
#NGI #FOSS #Taler #XWiki #Rosenpass #Decidim #OpenSource #EC_NGI
@ngi @EUCommission @EC_NGI @ngisearch @NGI_Enrichers @NGITransoceanic
This #NGIFORUM panel on #governance is interesting. What is missing is that the is a native #openweb project that came directly out of the original ActivityPub outreach to the #EU
https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=OGB this so far has been ignored by the funders, you can see this in the link above. Q. When will we support native paths to balance the current #NGO and #geekproblem mess in the bureaucratic paths.
"What went wrong"!!! It is a good slogan. Yes #NGI it is a mess creating #techshit to feed the fashionistas. So good question.
Better #FOSS governance is a part of rebalancing this, so please look at the link above, thanks.
And if you want to be a prat about this - from a polemical view, https://hamishcampbell.com/maybe-we-dont-then-get-the-guillotine-out/
Hello, #NGIForum2025! 🌐
The #NextGenerationInternet Forum just opened in Brussels with an inspiring @NGICommons session, " #DigitalCommons as tools for building Digital Sovereignty", moderated by @moniquecalisti
Besides attending the inspiring talks, #NGISargasso is here to network with the #NGI community & some #NGISargassoInnovators! 💡
🌊 More info soon at https://ngisargasso.eu/
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #OpenSource
@seanbohan
@jaromil
@dyne
@OpenForumEurope
@ngi
@EC_NGI
@NGICommons @moniquecalisti @cnrs @OpenForumEurope @openfuture @linuxfoundation @ngi
On the current talk, we need government to legislate to open up the current internet providers, both mobile and fixed, to change their networks to be more friendly to user, grassroots, lead p2p and local hosting. This will need #EU and national governments to shape this change by intervening in these markets, to open them to this native #openweb path.
This could be a positive way of unblocking the current https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=geekproblem as the negative way is currently being blocked by the narrowness of current #NGI funding.
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