NLnet announces funding for 42 FOSS projects

The NLnet Foundation has announcedthe projects that have received funding from its October callfor grant proposals from the NextGeneration Internet (NGI) Zero Commons Fund.

The selected projects all contribute, one way or another, to themission of the Commons Fund: reclaiming the public nature of theinternet. For example, there are people working on interesting openhardware projects such as the tablet MNT Reform Touchand the SolarFemtoTX motherboard - a collaborative effort to create anultra-low power motherboard that can run on solar power. LLM2FPGA aims to enablerunning open source LLMs locally on programmable chips ("FPGAs") usinga fully open-source toolchain. bcachefsreadies itself as the next generation filesystem for Linux, improvingperformance, scalability and reliability when compared to legacyfilesystems.

In all, 42 projects have been selected for the NGI grants which arebetween 5,000 and 50,000. See the announcement for thefull list of selected projects, and the current projects pagefor other recent projects funded by NLnet.