Reach the @EUCommission to ask for sustainable funding for #freesofware ‼️
As individual, contacting European representatives is helpful to shift opinions. As the allocation of funds for #HorizonEU 2025 is still going on, there is still a chance to get funds available for @EC_NGI
https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240808-01.html
EC needs to come up with dedicated budget for Free Software solutions - FSFE
After the recent news that funding for the Next Generation Internet initiative would be cut for the next phase of Horizon Europe, the European Commission h...FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
Sebastian Lasse
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All what we ever needed was about 20.000€ for the most awesome fediverse software you can think off.
Horizon is not the thing for incubation. We do not have payed jobs for lobbyists who build consortiums and do a month paperwork.
There is absolutely _nothing_ to get things started (applied 5 times in 3 different teams for nothing, only waste of time) -
We have nothing and all community events in Open Protocols are payed by our private money until nothing was left. I did always give, EU always fucked up democracy.
One day this will get violent and last at „Public Spaces“ AMS, I described why in detail https://video.publicspaces.net/w/9USsJ37cHVy4tY9Pn7DX2X
Our events are all free for anybody.
https://redaktor.me/#home
First one in Prague https://redaktor.me/apconf/ ff.
We are neither the exclusive Google Conf nor do we extort @EC_Commissioner_Breton
We do not want to be the slaves of the EU-hypercapitalist walled-gardens!
United in Diversity they said.
Lostt all trust in the „EU“.
ActivityPub Conf 2019 Prague
#apconfAlberto Cottica
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