Prototype Fund

[Paul Brown]

On martes, 23 de marzo de 2021 21:51:46 (CET) Jos van den Oever wrote:
> On dinsdag 23 maart 2021 20:23:29 CET Paul Brown wrote:
> > On martes, 23 de marzo de 2021 15:43:09 (CET) Jos van den Oever wrote:
> > > On maandag 22 maart 2021 22:56:33 CET cahfofpai at tuta.io wrote:
> > > > Dear KDE community,
> > > > 
> > > > for those of you living in Germany: 9 days are left for applying at
> > > > the
> > > > Prototype Fund (https://prototypefund.de <https://prototypefund.de/>).
> > > > 
> > > > The Prototype Fund is a funding program to support the development of
> > > > open
> > > > source software, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education
> > > > and
> > > > Research. Maybe some of KDE's projects fit within the scope of the
> > > > program.
> > > 
> > > And 8 days for applying for this round of NLnet funding at NGI0.
> > > 
> > >    https://nlnet.nl/news/2021/20210201-call.html
> > > 
> > > Many KDE applications fall within the scope of the NGI grants.
> > 
> > I have read the description, but still have a question: Is this open to
> > all
> > projects, regardless of the location of the developers? Or only for the
> > EU?
> 
> Changes of getting accepted are highest if the proposer is in the EU, UK or
> associated states. Some percentage of very good projects from outside EC are
> accepted as well if NLnet can argue that they benefit EU extraordinarilly.
> 
> Single persons, organizations or combinations can apply. What counts most is
> how much the internet improves by doing the proposed project. And it has to
> fit within the scope of the fund. Search and discovery fund e.g. has quite
> a few semantic web and activitypub projects, but also distributed indexing
> solutions.  The Assure fund is about how to communicate on the internet
> more trustworthy and secure. So very wide as well.
> 
> https://nlnet.nl/discovery/faq/
> https://nlnet.nl/assure/faq/

Thank you for the detailed clarifications, Jos. We have shared the call for 
projects on LinkedIn.

Cheers

Paul
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