Working in Open Source & Public Service in Germany (and at the STF)
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Organization created inside the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation in September 2022 now counts 11 staff and will spin out later this year, funding maintenance and security work for infrastructure libraries and tools. Specific investments include funded log4j and curl and several RubyGems and pendulum (NTP/PTP) plus coreutils for GR. Hiring three roles now: technologist, program manager, bug resilience program manager; bug bounty work is reframed as a systemic vulnerability resilience program.
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