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Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund

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https://www.sovereign.tech/faq

"The Sovereign Tech Agency started in October 2022 as the Sovereign Tech Fund and is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. It is a subsidiary of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, SPRIND GmbH."

1 day agoby simonw

A good initiative, but there seems to be nothing on the horizon that can limit the increasing dependence on iOS / App Store and Android / Play Store / Play Services in European citizens' lives, and Microsoft in European corporate and government desktops. If anything, policy makers seem to prefer to increase the dependence, e.g.

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/.github/blob/m...

1 day agoby em500

Sovereign's grant to Servo (fy 2025 & 2026) is €545,400.

https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/servo / https://archive.is/kryIb

1 day agoby ignoramous

Glad to see Europe (in this case Germany https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund) is doing something to support Open Source as part of its bid to make itself less reliant on the US tech giants. They could of course do more, but still...

1 day agoby rob74

You can also donate to the Servo project on https://servo.org/sponsorship/

1 day agoby throawayonthe

Igalia has been able to push quite a few set of cool projects, nice to see Servo going as well.

1 day agoby pjmlp

2 out of 3 points should not be in the list at this point of time.

There is no browser around servo that is usable and they start with accessibility?

The effort should go first to have it work as an everyday browser and get as much market share as possible. Then think of accessibility and WebView Integration.

This is a unique opportunity to have a browser engine not depending on Google, Microsoft or some of AI companies wanting to get into this field. By watering it down, you will just lose the market to the ladybird which is focused.

7 hours agoby criticalfault

The Sovereign Tech Agency is doing a great job, I hope other countries will follow Germany's example and fund similar agencies. If we want to rely on Open Source software, we need to pay for maintenance.

1 day agoby Tepix

That's nice ! Servo is a good modern engine, it's a pity it's not used in a real browser.

1 day agoby bestouff

Is it just me or is the total amount of funding at the Sovereign Tech fund (https://www.sovereign.tech/faq) hilariously small? 11.5 mil eur right now? 17 mil next year? Better than nothing of course, but...

1 day agoby amilios

Webview API focus - I'm sure the Tauri folks are happy to hear that

1 day agoby ndom91

The best sovereign tech fund would be a robust commitment to 'public money, public code'. To think how many sponsored features in LibreOffice, GIMP, Nextcloud,... could be paid for by the money that the governments of the world are paying each year to MS, Adobe,... and it would create sustainable demand for OSS development.

1 day agoby t_mann

It’s nice that someone is funding it :)