Hi all,
Happy holidays full of time with your loved ones, and time to enjoy your hobbies - whether it is cooking or coding. I am sharing with you some information that I hope you will find interesting: a funding opportunity from the EU, cool events, and ways you can contribute.
Funding for your FOSS project
European citizens, companies, and organisations can apply for a 5k-50k grant for a FOSS project. The European Commission's NGI programm funds development and additional activities that improve software quality. See attachment and footnote [0].
Upcycle your Android + FOSDEM
Stay tuned as in January we are planning to hold an online Upcycle Your Android workshop with guest experts. One of the topics will be microG project, the Free Software clone of Google’s proprietary libraries [1]. Date TBC. Remember to stop at our booth in February in FOSDEM.
Get active!
Depending on your skills and availability, there are different ways you can contribute to our activities and work, supporting software freedom. For example, you can:
- Sign and share the open letter about the right to install any software on any device [2].
- Share the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom call for registration with schools, teachers and young people from your region. [3]
- Help translate our news into your native language. Please contact our team member Bonnie [4] to learn how the process works.
- Organise a public reading, in German or Ukranian, of the children's book A&Z in a library. You can also donate the book to a public library or to school.
- Give a talk about Free Software, what is it and why it is important, at a public event such as a festival or a conference.
- You can support us financially with an amount you see fit. Your donation will allow us to continue our work. In some countries the donation is tax deductible. [5].
Please feel free to share your feedback with the FSFE team and let us know how we can help your local group or what topics are of your interest. Of course, if you have any questions feel free to ask!
Greetings,
Fani
[0] NGI Entrust page on the NLNet website https://nlnet.nl/entrust/ + NLNet Application Form https://nlnet.nl/propose/ [1] MicroG https://microg.org/ [2] Open letter https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html [3] Bonnie Mehring bonnie@fsfe.org Coordinator Translations [4] yh4f.org [5] https://my.fsfe.org/donate
