Hi Fediverse, we are NLnet. We support people and organizations who contribute to a free and open internet. We offer small and medium grants to projects that help fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data.
We're the lead of @NGIZero a coalition which runs several funding programmes for people who build free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet. (Made possible with financial support from the European Commission).
We've been stealthily present in the Fediverse behind the NGIZero handle but have now finally set up our NLnet instance. With special thanks to @nlnetlabs for their patience :).
Another way we've been involved is we've funded many fantastic ActivityPub related projects. See the image for a visual overview.
Happy to be here and looking forward to meet you in this pleasant space.
#introduction
📼~spotlight on... "TAPE", the VCR-inspired, monospace pixel font!
(it also includes media symbols. please make spooky games with this!)
Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages - EU Reporter
📚 The OpenSSF Best Practices Working Group has just released a short guide - Correctly Using Regular Expressions for Secure Input Validation. Read the blog and learn why it’s important! https://openssf.org/blog/2024/06/18/know-your-regular-expressions-securing-input-validation-across-languages/
#OSSSecurity
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.