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Europe is moving from buzzwords to budgets: calls to replace precarious NGI funding include proposals for a multi‑billion EU open source fund and a €3,000 million IPSI cloud project across 12 member states and ~100 companies. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund maintenance grants and national indexes of public software are already underwriting critical libraries. Concrete asks: inventory public dependencies, fund long‑term maintenance (not just innovation), and pilot cooperative developer co‑ops for sustainable stewardship.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Public sector open source
- 1:47Digital regulation in Europe
- 4:14Public funding challenges
- 7:45Public sector adoption
- 11:37Open source opportunities
- 21:41Sovereign Tech Fund model
- 25:13Government open source community
- 29:06Project selection at STF
- 33:22Defining European open source
- 38:40Summary and call to action
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