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On August 8, a new batch of 60 free and open source projects was selected for the NGI Zero Commons Fund.

We want to thank these project teams for working on the digital commons and contributing to open, secure and trustworthy digital infrastructure for all.

This brings the total of grantees within the programme to 494 projects. There are still two more calls currently under evaluation for the program.

Meet the projects! https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20260808-60-new-projects.html

#NGI #NGI0 #FOSS #opensource

The Prototype Fund is growing!

With “Resilience,” we’re now funding not only data security and software infrastructure but also alternatives to tech giants and their centralized ecosystems.
Under “Up and Coming,” we aim to specifically support people who are new(ish) to the #FOSS world.

In total, this means up to 19 million euros in additional funding for software developed by the civil society! 🎉

More information on our blog:
➡️ https://www.prototypefund.de/en/blog/ptf-3-0

Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face)

https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026
http://www.techmeme.com/260816/p3#a260816p3

Meet the first cohort of the #SovereignTechStandards network! Antoine d’Aligny, @dansup, @minipgp6, @job, Kacper Dalach, @lolaodelola, Marten Seemann, @miri64, @jugglinmike, and Stephen Curran bring hands-on expertise from critical, open source infrastructure into standards development. Their work will help shape more secure and more interoperable technology.

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