The Government and the Art of Infrastructure Mainte...
summary
Sovereign Tech Fund focuses public funding on longterm upkeep of foundational open source software with concrete programs: a general investment fund using milestone contracts, a bug resilience program combining bug bounties with fixed payouts for maintainers, funded security audits and partner capacity support, and precommercial challenges to recruit contributors. Budget was about €11.5M in 2023 and €17M in 2024. A new fellowship pilot runs 12 months for up to five maintainers (survey found 36 interested) and includes paid employment or freelance contracts.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Sovereign Tech Fund intro
- 1:07Fund mission and focus
- 2:30Funding maintenance plans
- 3:35Digital infrastructure programs
- 4:16Bug Resilience Program
- 5:40Challenges and procurement
- 6:20Log4j case study
- 7:42Fellowship for Maintainers
- 8:23Fellowship structure and goals
- 9:46Pilot program insights
- 11:10Summary and involvement
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