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Fwd: Support needed for Free Software in EU Consultation
by Vesna Manojlovic ＠ RIPE.net 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Support needed for Free Software in EU Consultation Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:21:53 +0200 From: Bonnie Mehring <bonnie(a)fsfe.org> Hej The European Commission has recently cut the funding for the Next Generation Internet (NGI), which supports Free Software projects, by €27 million [1]. This underscores the fragility and precarious nature of funding for Free Software and the need for sustainable support has become more evident than ever. We encourage you, as hackerspace, to join us in safeguarding the future of software freedom by participating in the ongoing consultation for the Digital Europe Programme [2]. This consultation presents a key opportunity to advocate for stable funding and ensure Free Software remains a priority in Europe’s digital strategy. Collective action is vital, especially in light of the non-transparent and unclear process behind the Next Generation Internet (NGI) funding cuts. The deadline of the consultation is 20 September (midnight Brussels time). We already participated [3] and here are some key points to consider while submitting the consultation: Software is integral to every aspect of our lives. It’s essential that this technology empowers, not restricts, by granting everyone the right to use, understand, adapt, and share software. We urge the EU to prioritise Free Software, ensuring financial support for related projects and ecosystems. Sustainable, long-term funding will enhance independence, resilience, control, security, and sovereignty. The Digital Europe Programme could only unfold its full potential if it is systematically focusing on the support of Free Software solutions. Free Software is crucial to avoiding future dependencies and lock-ins. By adopting a “Free Software first” approach, the EU can ensure taxpayer money is used efficiently, fostering collaboration and interoperability across Europe. If it’s public money, it should be public code. If you are willing to participate in the consultation and support the proposal for Free Software funding, please let us know via email contact(a)fsfe.org Best Regards, Bonnie [1] https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240719-01.html [2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/1… [3] https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240911-02.html -- Bonnie Mehring - Project manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support)

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Open Source WG Chair selection - Looking for candidates
by Martin Winter 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

It’s two months until the next fall RIPE meeting - and this means it’s time again for a Working Group Chair Selection. To avoid the issues from the last meeting, we would like to clarify on how we want to do the selection this time and the requirements, selection process etc. There is some progress by RIPE to define a new common process for all the working groups, however, this is not ready yet and we thus announce the following: Our working group has currently 3 chairs: - Martin Winter (Since Start of WG, RIPE 66) - Marcos Sanz (Since RIPE 84) - Sasha Romjin (Since RIPE 88) Martin Winter is currently considering stepping down as a WG chair to make space for somebody new with fresh ideas. However, this will depend on getting candidates as well. Martin will decide after the new candidates are known, if he will either withdraw from further terms or stand as a candidate for re-election against the new candidates. Criteria/Expectations of a WG chair: - You have attended multiple physical RIPE meetings before (and are familiar with how RIPE works) - You will be attending most RIPE meetings while serving as a chair in person - You will attend this Fall meeting session (Physical or Virtual) For more details, see the Guide for New RIPE Working Group Chairs (https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-765/) or the RIPE Working Group Chair e-learning course (https://academy.ripe.net/course/info.php?id=16). If you are interested to serve as a WG chair: Nomination period is until Sept 27, 2024, 23:59 UTC. Send an email to opensource-wg-chairs(a)ripe.net to make us aware of your candidacy before this deadline. In the email, please include a short bio and statement why you are interested. On Sep 28, we will then send an email with all candidates, their submitted bio and a summary of previous RIPE attendance of each candidate to the list and open a discussion for feedback, statement of support for specific candidates and any other feedback in regards to them. In parallel, the working group chairs will run interviews and discussions with all the candidates and we require the candidates to make time for these calls and get back to us in a timely manner to email requests during this month. The time is short and we need to be prepared before the meeting! Please be aware, these are not elections, but selections. The ultimate decision is by the remaining WG chairs as all the chairs need to work together. Martin, Marcos & Sasha (the current WG chairs)

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RV: [ripe-list] Announcing Green Tech Hackathon: in December, in Amsterdam (& online)
by Marcos Sanz 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

FYI. Sorry for cross-posting. > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Vesna Manojlovic @ RIPE.net <becha(a)ripe.net> > Enviado el: martes, 27 de agosto de 2024 12:24 > Para: ripe-list(a)ripe.net > Asunto: [ripe-list] Announcing Green Tech Hackathon: in December, in > Amsterdam (& online) > > Dear colleagues, > > Join the next RIPE NCC hackathon focused on Green Tech this December! > Our goals are to develop tools, policies and protocols to reduce the > environmental impact of Internet infrastructure. > > RIPE NCC hackathons are non-commercial and non-competitive. We focus on > cooperation and openness - all the code produced is FLOSS, and all the > results are published on public software repositories, wikis, and on > blogs to help others further create, experiment, and develop ideas and > tools. > > Please find more information in this RIPE Labs article: > https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/announcing-the-green-tech-hackathon/ > > Direct link to application form: > https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/apply/green-tech-20234/ > > Regards, > Vesna Manojlović > > -- > Senior Community Builder > RIPE NCC > > > ----- > To unsubscribe from this mailing list or change your subscription options, > please visit: https://mailman.ripe.net/mailman3/lists/ripe-list.ripe.net/ > As we have migrated to Mailman 3, you will need to create an account with > the email matching your subscription before you can change your settings. > More details at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/mailman-3- > migration/

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Call for Open Source WG Presentations (RIPE89, Prague, 31st October, 2024)
by Marcos Sanz 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

Dear all, the next RIPE Meeting is around the corner - your chance to present about some interesting Open Source! Our working group meeting slot is allocated on Thursday, 31st October, 11h-12:30h local time. If you would like to give a presentation during the Open Source WG session, then please contact us (the WG chairs). In general, each talk is 15-30 mins including Q&A (depending on how much time is needed). If you have some idea and are not sure how/if you should present something, then feel free to contact us as well to discuss the idea! Remote presentations are also possible. As always, we are planning to reserve some time at the end of the WG session for lightning talks. These short (5 to 10 minutes max) updates/talks are decided on the day before the WG session on a time/space available basis. No need to submit to us anything for these talks at this time. Big thanks in advance Marcos, Martin, Sasha Your Open Source WG Chairs

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Contribution and credits policy BCP draft
by Maria Matejka 09 Aug '24

09 Aug '24

Dear fellow OSS WG participants, following up on my talk today, I'm sending here the BCP draft for further discussion. > Open-source projects SHOULD publish their contribution and credits policy and > be open about how (and if) people can contribute. Open-source project > maintainers SHOULD adhere to the published policy and update it when > circumstances change. > > To create such a policy, maintainers can use a [policy guide](https://github.com/contribution-credit/policy/blob/main/policy_guide… > as a starting point. Maintainers are advised to be as open and friendly as they can. For reference, you can also [replay my talk](https://ripe88.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/os-wg/) or [see RIPE 87 OSS WG session](https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/os-wg/). And here are some previous relevant threads in this list: - [first draft](https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/opensource-wg/2023-December/… - [second draft](https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/opensource-wg/2024-January/0… - [article at LWN](https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/opensource-wg/2024-May/000270.… And that's probably all information you may need for context so please comment and roast this BCP draft. Happy contributing and crediting! Maria -- Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.

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"The European Union must keep funding free software", open letter to EU about NGI
by Vesna Manojlovic ＠ RIPE.net 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

Dear community, this is an open letter, published by more than 42 organisations & individuals, as a reaction to the announcements by EU to stop funding NGI: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, since 2020 part of European Commission's Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe . This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, NGI is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4. Therefore, I share this call with RIPE community, to gather support & influence EU to keep on funding free software. Regards, Vesna Manojlovic -- Senior Community Builder RIPE NCC

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RIPE88 open source WG meeting minutes
by Sasha Romijn 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Hello all, The minutes for our meeting at RIPE88 have now been published: https://www.ripe.net/community/wg/active-wg/os/minutes/open-source-working-… Please let the chairs know if you have any comments. Thanks to Sean Mottles and other RIPE NCC staff for taking and editing them. Sasha

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Final reminder for RIPE88 lightning talks
by Sasha Romijn 20 May '24

20 May '24

Hello all, We look forward to our session this Thursday afternoon at RIPE88! Meanwhile, I wanted to remind you that we still have space for lightning talks. If you would like to present a short update on your RIPE-related open source project, or have something else to share that is relevant to the group, please send a short message to opensource-wg-chairs(a)ripe.net by noon CEST tomorrow. Talks will be selected on Tuesday afternoon. Marcos Sanz & Martin Winter & Sasha Romijn

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Open-source Software Risk Mitigation Practices survey
by Sasha Romijn 15 May '24

15 May '24

Hello all, As you can see on the agenda, Petr Špaček from ISC will do a talk on Open-source QA in our RIPE88 session. They’ve set up a survey on this subject, and we encourage you all to submit: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/RIPE88OpenSourceWGSurvey The data from this survey will serve as input for both the presentation and the discussion we can have afterwards. Looking forward to insightful discussions from your survey input! Best regards, Marcos Sanz & Martin Winter & Sasha Romijn Open-source WG chairs

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Credit and contributions policy guide launches May 20
by Valerie Aurora 14 May '24

14 May '24

Hi all, I'm happy to say that, thanks to Maria Matějka, the guide to creating a contributions and credit policy is up on GitHub and ready for PRs: https://github.com/contribution-credit/policy Feel free to share this starting now, but the "official" launch will be May 20, when Linux Weekly News publishes an article on the policy guide. We are open to improvements of all sorts, and especially additions to the list of projects that already have such a policy: https://github.com/contribution-credit/policy/blob/main/policies.md And of course you can check out our own contributions and credit policy :) https://github.com/contribution-credit/policy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Thanks again to Maria Matějka for many contributions, edits, structural improvements, and creating the GitHub repo, Marcos Sanz and Martin White for early support and important input, and many others from the OS WG for their input. If you'd like to add yourself as a named contributor or update your entry on the credits, please do! Valerie

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