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Strengthening digital infrastructure and open source ecosystems in the public interest.

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Paul Sharratt & Powen Shiah are representing STF at the 2024 #g0v @summit summit in Taipei this weekend (pictured in a hallway meeting with Taiwan's first digital minister Audrey Tang). Tune into their talk, “Between Nerds & Governments: Why The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Public Money in Open Source Infrastructure” at 10:10am local / 4:10am Berlin on Sunday, 5 May, 2024 (4 May at 10:10pm NYC, 7:30pm SF) on the livestream: https://youtube.com/@g0vtw -- and say hello in person at #g0vSummit2024

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Eine Mittelung von Adriana Groh, STF-Mitgründerin (noch nicht auf Mastodon):
„Lust, die Agentur für offene digitale Infrastruktur der Zukunft mit aufzubauen?

Wir hätten da einen #Job im Angebot – und was für einen! Der Sovereign Tech Fund geht in die nächste Phase und sucht dafür eine Geschäftsführung fürs Kaufmännische und Administrative: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/de/stellenangebote/administrative-geschaeftsfuehrung

Wir haben eine klare Vision, ambitionierte Ziele, ein großartiges Team und in unserer Pilotphase bereits einiges erarbeitet.“ 1/3

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@sovtechfund A small request, please use an international date format (DD/MM/YYYY) rather than the American one (MM/DD/YYYY) in your English blog :)

sovtechfund,
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@timClicks Thanks for pointing it out and reminding us about this, we've updated it with format that should be unambiguous.

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Wir freuen uns, Mamba zu unterstützen und in eine sichere Paketverwaltung für das @conda Ökosystem zu investieren. Dies hilft, die Softwareentwicklung und -bereitstellung in Wissenschaft und Industrie zu vereinfachen. https://sovereigntechfund.de/de/tech/mamba/

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We’re excited to announce that the Sovereign Tech Fund is working with @prefix to support Mamba and investing in secure package management for the conda-forge ecosystem. This helps simplify software development and deployment in science and industry. https://sovereigntechfund.de/tech/mamba

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We're working with @thephpf to invest in the long-term sustainability & security of the @php ecosystem. Overhauling the PECL extension distribution system, code auditing, improving documentation, & server integration testing will benefit millions of sites and apps using PHP. https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/php/

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We’re excited to share details about STF’s investment in @gnome to improve accessibility, tooling, and security for the Linux desktop ecosystem. Learn more about the comprehensive plan to modernize the platform and support features in the public interest:

https://sovereigntechfund.de/tech/gnome

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There's also a post by the GNOME project about this work from a few months ago, check that out as well: https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/

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Today, a public bug bounty launched for @sequoiapgp, supported by the #BugResilienceProgram on the @yeswehack platform: https://yeswehack.com/programs/sequoia-pgp-bug-bounty-program

We're funding the discovery of vulnerabilities by researchers, as well as the fixes by FOSS projects.

Learn about the bounty on the Sequoia blog: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2024/04/10/202404-bug-bounty/

The Bug Resilience Program: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/bug-resilience

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Join STF co-founder Adriana Groh’s talk with Nesta from 13:00-14:00 CEST on Wednesday, 10 April 2024. See you there! https://www.nesta.org.uk/event/why-digital-infrastructure-should-be-a-government-priority/

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Willst du beim STF mit anpacken? Die Bewerbungsfrist für die Stelle Bug-Resilience-Program-Manager:in endet Sonntag, den 14. April 2024. Wir freuen uns auf eure Bewerbungen!

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/de/stellenangebote/bug-resilience-program-manager-in

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Interested in joining the STF team? The deadline to submit an application for the Bug Resilience Program Manager job opening is Sunday, 14 April 2024. We're looking forward to getting your applications!

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/jobs/bug-resilience-program-manager

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Wir beim Sovereign Tech Fund verfolgen den #xz-Vorfall aufmerksam und hören die vielen Stimmen aus der #FOSS-Community dazu. Es ist uns klar, dass der xz-Vorfall Anzeichen einer strukturellen Herausforderung ist.

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/de/neuigkeiten/xz-anzeichen-strukturelle-herausforderung

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At Sovereign Tech Fund, we're following the #xz incident closely and listening to the many voices in the #FOSS maintainer community.

What's clear to us is that the xz incident shows the need for structural change:

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/xz-structural-change

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Open source software is a critical part of our national security infrastructure, but one that government is entirely neglecting. Federal agencies rely on OpenSSL, liblzma, etc. just as much as the private sector.

We need a division of federal government whose job isn’t to find and exploit security holes (like the NSA), but fix them. A sort of a national security agency, but that actually does…that.

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@luis_in_brief @jacob @waldoj Could you elaborate on what you mean by “never made it to their radar”? Maintainers can apply through a light-weight process, and we also scout and reach out to critical technologies. May be a good topic for Upstream with @krakenbuerger in June.

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Kleine Erinnerung: wir suchen Anregungen von #FOSS -Maintainer:innen um ein Pilotprogramm für ein bezahltes Fellowship zur Unterstützung kritischer digitaler Infrastrukturen zu gestalten. Hilf uns, indem du die Umfrage mit Maintainer:innen, die Du kennst, teilst!

Die Umfrage läuft bis einschließlich Sonntag, den 7. April 2024.

Mehr dazu: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/de/neuigkeiten/foss-fellowship-umfrage

Umfrage (englisch): https://survey.sovereigntechfund.de/968766

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Reminder: The Sovereign Tech Fund is asking #FOSS maintainers for input as we design the pilot program for a paid fellowship to support critical digital infrastructure. Help us by sharing this with maintainers you know!

The last day to submit a response is Sunday, 7 April 2024.

More: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/foss-maintainer-fellowship-survey

Survey: https://survey.sovereigntechfund.de/968766

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#curl turns 26 today

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/20/curl-turns-26-today/

sovtechfund,
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@bagder Congratulations and happy curl-birthday / curl-day / curl-iversary!

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We’re seeking input from #FOSS maintainers as we design a fellowship program pilot. We want to test a support mechanism that addresses structural issues in the FOSS ecosystem, and support maintainers who work on open digital infrastructure in the public interest.

If you maintain open source projects, we would be very grateful if you could take ten minutes to respond to the survey:
https://survey.sovereigntechfund.de/968766

Please also repost and share with FOSS maintainers you know. Thanks!

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We’re happy to announce the Sovereign Tech Fund’s investment in @nlnetlabs's domain project, expanding this comprehensive, memory-safe library for building privacy and security-conscious DNS applications. This is another step towards a safer and more resilient internet:

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/domain

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Today, STF co-founder @krakenbuerger is taking part in Bitkom's open source working group meeting: “The Future of Open Source — Fair” with a session on the Sovereign Tech Fund's investments into FOSS infrastructure. https://www.bitkom.org/Bitkom/Organisation/Gremien/Open-Source.html

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Did you know that we have an email newsletter? About once a month, we share updates about the Sovereign Tech Fund, the FOSS technologies we've invested in, as well as events and talks. Sign up here: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/#newsletter

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In case you missed it, we're hiring for three positions:

  • Technologist
  • Program Manager
  • Bug Resilience Program Manager

Join the Sovereign Tech Fund's team to strengthen digital infrastructure in the public interest. Please share; we're looking forward to getting your applications!

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/jobs#open-positions

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Today at #fossback STF co-founder @krakenbuerger called for acknowledgement of the diversity of needs and stakeholders within the FOSS ecosystem, and that reconciling all of them into a single strategy isn’t possible. Iterating and testing at STF is helping us identify some needs, and address some of them, but not all. There need to be more actors in the space to address more of what’s needed.

“When we talk about sustainability, we shouldn't just focus on the individual FOSS project…” 1/2

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Today at CEPS Ideas Lab, STF co-founder Adriana Groh will share STF's expertise & lessons from our experience supporting critical open source technologies. Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has commissioned work on 40 projects since beginning Sept 2022. The panel "Should the EU create a Sovereign Tech Fund on AI and digital commons?" is at 17:15, don't miss it! https://ideaslab.ceps.eu/programme/
#CEPSlab2024

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