FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans
Advocates raise concerns over disappearing funding for FOSS initiatives in the EU's Horizon program 2025 proposal. NGI's impact report underscores success but worries persist about future resources and support.
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Advocates express concern as funding for free and open source software (FOSS) initiatives under the EU's Horizon program is reportedly disappearing from the 2025 proposal. Pierre-Yves Gibello, CEO of OW2, criticized the elimination of funding for the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, emphasizing the importance of FOSS in protecting European interests from data exploitation. NGI's impact report highlighted the success of funded projects in providing alternatives to market solutions and supporting EU regulations like GDPR. Despite ongoing projects being funded for now, worries persist about the future availability of resources for research and innovation in Europe. The 2025 Horizon Europe Work Programme is still being finalized, with a shift towards more focused funding and consolidation of research focus. While NGI is expected to receive funding under specific areas, concerns remain about the overall support for community building and internet infrastructure. The European Commission has not commented on the matter, and the finalized Work Programme is expected to be adopted in the second quarter of the following year.
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Advocates raise concerns over disappearing funding for FOSS initiatives in the EU's Horizon program 2025 proposal. Criticism focuses on the elimination of support for NGI, impacting EU laws compliance and digital services. Gibello emphasizes the importance of sustaining FOSS community support amid funding uncertainties.
FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans
Advocates express concern over scarce funding for EU's FOSS initiatives in the 2025 Horizon program. Criticism arises for eliminating NGI funding, impacting EU's data protection efforts. Uncertainties loom regarding future support and strategic shifts towards green and digital transitions.
7 commentsI feel like the people deciding what (research and technology) to fund in the EU generally have very poor taste in their selections. I assume that they are non-technical as they often seem to choose the projects that make the most ambitious claims about social impact and EU values, but have very little to none technical merit.
Stuff like Rust, that could be a real technological advantage for the EU, is not funded, but weird blockchain semantic web foo is https://www.ngi.eu/
Short list of things that don't exist:
- universal datetime library for all major languages that can parse all formats, timezone aware, and is convenient to use.
- universal permissions and paths library. Filesystem, network filepaths, both for windows acls, Linux and Mac's extended perms. How can I know if I have read permission before reading? Or that I can traverse a directory before trying?
- memory safe openssl
- memory safe small footprint embeddable html/css renderer for universal GUI's and small arm computers. (not webview)
- USB c protocols for embedded devices.
- improvements to kicad to implement smart trace routing.
- any pain point or plumbing that really should be apart of a language/library already.
Funding cuts for CRA compliance and DSA/DMA enforcement?
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The European Union must keep funding free software
An open letter urges the European Commission to fund free software, emphasizing the importance of Next Generation Internet (NGI) programs for European technological innovation. It highlights NGI's success in supporting projects and collaborations.
FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans
Advocates raise concerns over disappearing funding for FOSS initiatives in the EU's Horizon program 2025 proposal. Criticism focuses on the elimination of support for NGI, impacting EU laws compliance and digital services. Gibello emphasizes the importance of sustaining FOSS community support amid funding uncertainties.
FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans
Advocates express concern over scarce funding for EU's FOSS initiatives in the 2025 Horizon program. Criticism arises for eliminating NGI funding, impacting EU's data protection efforts. Uncertainties loom regarding future support and strategic shifts towards green and digital transitions.