witchescauldron<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@NGICommons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>NGICommons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@moniquecalisti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>moniquecalisti</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnrs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cnrs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@OpenForumEurope" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OpenForumEurope</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@openfuture" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>openfuture</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linuxfoundation</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.ngi.eu/@ngi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ngi</span></a></span> </p><p>Good point from the mastodon crew about NGI funding the social side of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> to balance the very small hard tech part of this native path. This is fundamentally anti-commercial in its development, but not in its use. So the development side needs balanced funding. And currently the huge social side is completely unfunded, this is pushing mess because the funding is currently pushing a narrow <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/techfix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techfix</span></a> paths that are not native to open-source and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> - and yes i understand this is anti-common sense but projects without users and support are dead projects <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KISS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KISS</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGIFORUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NGIFORUM</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NGIFORUM2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NGIFORUM2025</span></a></p>