NLnet announces funding for 42 FOSS projects

The NLnet Foundation has announced
the projects that have received funding from its October call
for grant proposals from the Next
Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Commons Fund.

The selected projects all contribute, one way or another, to the
mission of the Commons Fund: reclaiming the public nature of the
internet. For example, there are people working on interesting open
hardware projects such as the tablet MNT Reform Touch
and the Solar
FemtoTX motherboard — a collaborative effort to create an
ultra-low power motherboard that can run on solar power. LLM2FPGA aims to enable
running open source LLMs locally on programmable chips ('FPGAs') using
a fully open-source toolchain. bcachefs
readies itself as the next generation filesystem for Linux, improving
performance, scalability and reliability when compared to legacy
filesystems.

In all, 42 projects have been selected for the NGI grants which are
between €5,000 and €50,000. See the announcement for the
full list of selected projects, and the current projects page
for other recent projects funded by NLnet.