Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Injects €686,400 into FreeBSD
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Sovereign Tech Fund, a funding pot supported financially by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and hosted by the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, has once again been one of Open Source’s great friends and supporters.
After providing €1 million in financial support to GNOME at the end of last year and investing €203K in GStreamer and €157K in FFmpeg earlier this year, the company is now making another impressive donation to the open-source ecosystem.
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced a €686,400 investment from STF to enhance the FreeBSD operating system’s infrastructure and security.
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Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
The FreeBSD Foundation, dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting the community, announced that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €686,400 in the FreeBSD project to drive improvements in infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience.
The work, organized and managed by the FreeBSD Foundation, will begin in August 2024 and continue through 2025. It will focus on five key projects:
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Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to invest in FreeBSD infrastructure modernization
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €686,400 toward improvements in the FreeBSD project's infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience:
The work commissioned by STF also aligns closely with the recent August 9, 2024 summary report released by the U.S. Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), consolidating feedback from the 2023 request for information on key priorities for securing the open source software ecosystem. By enhancing security controls and SBOM tooling, the FreeBSD Foundation is helping to keep FreeBSD at the forefront of improved vulnerability disclosure mechanisms and secure software foundations.
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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Puts Over $750K Into FreeBSD Infrastructure Projects - FOSS Force
August is turning out to be quite a good month for the folks at the FreeBSD Foundation, the folks behind the eponymous BSD operating system.
Only a week ago we learned from Phoronix’s Michael Larabel that the foundation was working with chipmaker AMD to develop a FreeBSD AMD IOMMU driver which will help the open source Unix-like operating system better support more than 256+ CPU cores. Then on Monday we learned that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has agreed to invest €686,400 (about $766,341 US) in the FreeBSD project to drive improvements in infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience.
The Sovereign Tech Fund is a German government program that supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure in the public interest. Its stated purpose is to strengthen the sustainability of the open source ecosystem, with a focus on security, resilience, and technological diversity.