Sovereign Tech Fund: Neuer Fördertopf finanziert sieben Open-Source-Projekte | 10/20/2022

Google translate: "New fund finances seven open source projects...The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) was launched on Tuesday. In a pilot round, it is funding seven open source projects with a total of 1.7 million euros. The new funding pot receives funds from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) and uses them to support open core technologies of our digital infrastructure . A feasibility study by the Open Knowledge Foundation had previously complained that the current development economy of open source software is not sustainable and harbors security-related problems. Because often a few individuals take care of their preservation and maintenance. "If we rely on open source code and technology, then we need to make sure - especially when it comes to critical infrastructure - that that open source code is maintained, nurtured and evolved. And that's exactly what we want to do with the Sovereign Tech Fund," explained Laura Krug from the Department for Data Availability, Digital Sovereignty and Sprind at the BMWK at an event organized by the Tagesspiegel . The STF is based at the Agency for Leap Innovation. According to the draft budget, a total of 11.5 million euros are to be invested in the open source ecosystem in 2023. The seven currently funded projects were selected according to the criteria of range, criticality and current undersupply in maintenance proposed in the feasibility study...."

list of funded projects: https://sovereigntechfund.de/