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Bi—zaar

Dear #FLOSS people in EU and around
and communities and projects

It's time to act together!
Over the past 5 years, NGI 0 has financed and supported more than a thousand projects.
More broadly, the Next Generation Internet programme has helped even further afield, including outside the EU.

In 2024, hundreds of organisations had signed the open letter ‘The European Union must keep funding free software’ as we learned that NGI 0 would probably not be considered for renewal.

However, 1 benchmark study
op.europa.eu/en/publication-de
And another report by the European Commission's Open Source Observatory
interoperable-europe.ec.europa
And ‘EU consultation confirms demand: long-term funding for Free Software is needed’ fsfe.org/news/2024/news-202411
Maybe other reports and studies show the merits of the NGI0, its effectiveness, and the need to continue this type of initiative through cascade funding with management by Consortium.

The MEPs are currently drafting and negotiating the ‘Horizon Europe's 2025 Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space Work’.

NGI 0 does not exist in the working documents. Simply disappeared for Horizon Europe - 2026-2027 Digital, Industry and Space

It's time to contact your MEPs and ask them to consider continuing NGI 0 or equivalent for #FLOSS

But there are worse things

1/2

Publications Office of the EUBenchmarking the impact of the next generation internet initiative - Publications Office of the EUThe Next Generation Internet (NGI) is an EU initiative aimed at driving internet technology towards a human-centric internet aligned with European values. The NGI program provides financial support to grassroots open source projects covering various layers of the Internet. The program started operationaly in 2019 mobilising about 140M€ over 5 years and supporting more than 1000 projects. This benchmark study evaluates the impact of NGI projects based on the following criteria: alignment with EU Digital rights, enabling EU legislation, impact on standardisation, provision of alternative solutions, and sustainability. The study aims to provide quantitative and qualitative insights into the NGI portfolio's performance and technological building blocks, as well as recommendations for the future evolution of the initiative. The findings aim to inform policy-making decisions and shape future work programs. Overall, the NGI program has had a significant impact in shaping an EU tech landscape that is sustainable, sovereign, and aligned with EU policy and values.
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Mai :v_trans:

So im working again on rustboot and now have the "problem" that the bootsector of it dosn't contain an BiosParameterBlock, which should be only needed for DOS but welp aparently there are BIOS'es out there that just write inside it, causing it to screw up the code inside it. -.-

It needs ~51 bytes or so, but my current implementation has only ~20 bytes of wiggleroom, mainly bc rust/llvm use 32bit-in-16bit code, which has the "problem" that an mov of an u16 immediate to a register occupies 6 instead of 3 bytes (2 zero bytes to pad u16 to u32 + the sizeprefix 0x66 to "temporarily" switch to 32bit).

Sooooooo yeah yk what I did. You tought of the sensible way of writing it simply entirely in assembly? Naaaaah; I'm gonna patch LLVM ofc!! :blobcat_coolio: Which works quite okayish currently; I got it to correctly emit 16bit call and ret instructions (another thing that was eating space even before and I had to do some very creative workarounds...); now I only need to somehow compile an own rust toolchain that uses the patched LLVM, but it dosn't get's it right and the extra cpu target (i8086 instead of i386) dosn't get recognized as a valid target when rust tries to ask LLVM for it.... sigh

Maybe I should rather work on the implementation of an realmode interrupt routine that's callable from 32bit so I can implement a basic disk interface.

Summary card of repository chalk-os/rustboot
CodeArqrustbootA bootloader written in rust
#rust#osdev#bootloader
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// foss.events

Update on // foss.events:

registration has opened and description updated for

ConTeXt meeting by context group, Ryszard Kubiak on 22-29 August 2025 in Holiday site KREFTA in #Chmielno, #Poland

Find out more on foss.events/2025/08-22-context

Official account: @context
Official hashtag(s): #ConTeXt

// foss.eventsConTeXt meeting on // foss.eventsEverything in a nutshell about ConTeXt meeting on // foss.events
#foss#floss#freesoftware
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XWiki SAS

💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.

Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could:
✔️End vendor lock-in cycles
✔️Strengthen data sovereignty
✔️Create local tech jobs
✔️Support FLOSS innovation

XWiki, CryptPad and other open-source solutions prove alternatives exist, they just need proper funding.
Read the full analysis here: xwiki.com/en/Blog/why-governme

xwiki.com10 questions (and answers) on using open-source software in public institutionsLearn how open-source software adoption in governments can foster European innovation, reduce Big Tech reliance, and strengthen digital sovereignty. Read more!
#OpenSource#DigitalSovereignty#FLOSS
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Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh:

Please join me in a very warm welcome to the new @gnome Foundation Executive Director, @deobald!

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05

I’m excited to work with Steven and see him help steer the GNOME Foundation going forward. He’s a great guy and I’m already excited by his framing and deep understanding of what GNOME is—and needs to be.

blogs.gnome.orgIntroducing Myself – The Everyone Environment
#GNOME#Linux#OpenSource
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Klasse & Methode

Hi!
We're #newhere and exited to talk to you about #FLOSS, working in #techcooperatives, our #software project LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar and much more.
We're based in Stuttgart, Germany and already run a community calendar there called EINTOPF.

Hi!
Wir sind neu hier und freuen uns mit euch über #FLOSS, IT #Kollektivbetriebe, unser Software Projekt LAUTI - Open Source Community Kalender und vieles mehr auszutauschen.
Wir sind aus Stuttgart und betreiben dort den Kalender EINTOPF.

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EU OS

2/2 #EU_OS will develop its Proof-of-Concept to demonstrate how much decoupling is possible through free and open source #FLOSS. The publication of the strategy is planned for 4 June, when the EU OS team will present the results at the #DINUM hack days in Paris. What a coincidence! Follow this account to stay updated on the progress of EU OS.

Learn more about the sprint and how you can contribute: gitlab.com/eu-os/eu-os.gitlab.

GitLabCall for Participants: EU OS sprint at hackathon in Paris 2-4 June (pre-event 31 May-1 June) (online participation possible) (#31) · Issues · EU OS / EU OS Docs and Planning · GitLab Call for Participants: Hackdays and Pre-Event in Paris (31 May - 4 June) Hackathon ...
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@wolf480pl OFC limiting the scope of a project is important.

  • I.e. "I don't want to do a #GUI with like a modern desktop for @OS1337 because that'll exceed the desired complexity and sticking to #TUI / #CLI is the best I want to do." is such a scope.

OFC there are reasons why #bash is bash and why i.e. #toybox will most likely only implement a tiny subset of bash in toysh and why @landley hasn't implemented support for .bash_aliases yet [if he'd ever do that considering there are more pressing TODOs than "some hobbyist doodler's wish"...

  • Either way I don't fault either #developers for that: I don't pay them for their work so I don't get to tell them what they should do! In fact I'm grateful for their work and that they decided to release it and license it as #FLOSS and not #CCSS...
landley.netToybox 0.8.12 command help
#developers#floss#ccss
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Open Source Design

In Feb 2025 the opensourcedesign.net/ team applied for a devroom to host speakers on design in OSS topics and we succeeded in welcoming 8 fantastic speakers to Brussels in Feb 2025

See the talks on the FOSDEM hosted video's here:
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track

Read the wrap up article here: bit.ly/osd-fosdem25

Here's some comments we had from attendees of the Open Source Design Devroom in 2025.

Thanks to FOSDEM for another year of an Open Source Design Devroom! You can find an article summary of the FOSDEM Design Devroom here: bit.ly/OSD-FOSDEM25 Two photos side by side of two different speakers in front of an audience at FOSDEM 2025. One speaker is speaking about Thunderbird's design and the other is speaking about user research practices.
Two graphics of speech bubbles. One says" I've been coming to FOSDEM for 10 years and the open source design devroom is the best room" the other says "I'm looking to change from software development to UX design and I didn't think it was possible until after this Dev room"
A speech bubble graphic that says " The open source design devroom is one of the most accessible devrooms in terms of topic. I might not understand design in the same way as designers but I can always understand and appreciate the topics in the room"
#opensource#oss#opensourcedesign
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Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

«The official OSMnx reference paper has just been published open-access by Geographical Analysis: [link below] Years in the making, this article describes what OSMnx does and why it does it that way. But wait, there's more! I also discuss many lessons learned over the past decade in geospatial software development [...]» — @gboeing

Modeling and Analyzing Urban Networks and Amenities With OSMnx

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

#Python#OSMnx#geoviz
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