FYI === Announcing New Investments Sovereign Tech Fund is starting 2024 with a bang and announcing several new open source infrastructure technologies on which the STF is commissioning work. We’re excited to support these maintainers and FOSS communities, and to continue strengthening the foundational software of our shared digital infrastructure. If you’d like to find out about these updates as they happen, you can find the Sovereign Tech Fund on Mastodon, (etc) https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund Contribute Back Challenges Round 2 Five FOSS teams have been selected for the 2nd round of STF's Contribute Back Challenges! The projects are receiving a total of €858,560 for their work in the three challenge areas : https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/news/contribute-back-challenges-second-roun... - Improving FOSS Developer Tooling: conda-store, Haskell Cabal & Open Web Docs - Securing FOSS Software Production: Rusty SBOMs - FOSS Infrastructure Documentation: p5.js Documentation Organization & Accessibility Events: See you in Brussels! This week, several members of the STF team will be in Brussels. You can catch up with us at CHAOSSCon Europe (Tara) https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2024-eu/ EU Open Source Policy Summit (Adriana, Fiona, Powen) https://summit.openforumeurope.org/ FOSDEM (Mirko, Tara, and Fiona) https://fosdem.org/2024/ https://b1sp4.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/mr/sh/1f8JAEjGcfF85y2ImB9lu0WDqg/Q5X0Ei...