Profile for nlnet
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- NLnet
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About nlnet
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- NLnet website
- https://nlnet.nl/
- NGI Zero podcast
- https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/
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We are NLnet foundation. We support organisations and people who contribute to an open internet for all. If you are working on a project that helps fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data, we invite you to apply for a grant.
We're lead of the @NGIZero coalition which runs several programmes to fund those who are building free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet.
After an historical contribution to the early internet in Europe in the 1980's, we've been financially supporting the open internet since 1997.
We like hex stickers.
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We’re happy to share that the Proton community picked NLnet as a beneficiary for the annual Proton fundraiser. The privacy-minded Swiss company is raffling off 10 Proton Lifetime Accounts. Proceeds go to 10 organisations who share the vision of a private, secure & open internet.
Other beneficiaries are digital champions @edri, @digiges and many others.
The Proton Foundation will contribute $200,000 in matching funds.
The fundraiser is open until January 5.
https://proton.me/blog/2025-lifetime-account-charity-fundraiser
Some of us at NLnet will be going to #39c3 \o/. We hope to see you there! Together with @PrototypeFund and @sovtechfund will be doing a self-organized session, just like previous years. Join us on Day 3 for the Meet the Funders session where you can ask anything about Free and Open Source funding
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/meet-the-funders-sovereign-tech-agency-nlnet-proto
Hope to see you at Congress!
Do you have ideas about funding Free and Open Source technologies? Consider submitting a talk for the 2nd edition of the Funding the #FOSS Ecosystem devroom at #FOSDEM. The Call for Participation is open until December 1, 2025.
Hosted in collaboration with @fsfe @linuxfoundation @PrototypeFund @sovtechfund
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003656.html
This afternoon at 16.00 CEST we'll have our monthly open office hour.
If you have questions about our funding opportunities or anything else, you can ask them in our Matrix room.
If you want, you can already post your questions on the Etherpad.
You can find the link to the Matrix room here:
https://nlnet.nl/officehour/
Are you working on Free & Open Source technologies that benefit other people too? Consider to apply for funding in our open calls.
- You can ask for between 5k - 50k euro
- Anyone can apply: individuals, SMEs, institutions, collectives, etc.
- There is little administrative overhead: no reporting-the project is the proof of work. And the application form is simple & straightforward.
The next deadline for the rolling open call is October 1
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250801-call.html
#FOSS #NGI #NGI0 #fossfunding