55 new projects have been awarded an NGI Zero grant. A big thank you to all 55 teams and individuals for contributing to the open internet!

Here is an overview of the 55 projects: https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20231123-announcing-projects.html

With thanks to the @EC_NGI European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative.

@yarmo @EU_Commission New things are never easy, and they do require learning. They are eager to do so, though - but in such a big org getting new processes and priorities in place takes time. It is to be hoped that they follow the lead of companies like #DHL and move off of proprietary social media altogether in favour of the web and #fediverse - that would support privacy and free manpower.

@yarmo @EU_Commission We have been talking to them, and I'll gladly extend that kind offer for help.

Obviously, one-to-one interaction does not scale that well - we need hundreds of millions of people to switch. Are you aware of a good resource with best practices?

@humanetech @lightone @light Now that we're talking about it: Mastodon is one of the projects that will be audited as part of a new bug bounty program launched by the European Commission's new Open Source Programme Office. @gijs is an experienced open source advocate with the EC, should you want to keep up to date with this initiative (and possibly convince him why more fediverse audits are needed :)

@lightone Good question (and an important topic)! We are also not aware of any #fediverse projects undertaking (external) audits besides Funkwhale. Are you interested in organizing this (I am sure there would be interest)?