NGI TALER Grants for Tryton and Interledger Interoperability
We'd like to congratulate the two teams who have been selected for NGI Taler grants in the programme's second open call. Interledger interoperability inquiry will investigate the synergy between Interledger and GNU Taler. GNU Taler Tryton/GNUHealth integration will develop a Tryton module which enables users to integrate payments with Taler into their webshops.
Prof. Christian Grothoff, professor for computer network security at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and co-maintainer of GNU Taler said:
"As GNU co-maintainer, I'm excited to see more domain experts help with integrating GNU Taler into key Free/Libre Software business applications. The NGI TALER open call helps us gain the necessary diversity in expertise that the GNU Taler core team alone could not easily bring to the table."
About GNU Taler and the NGI pilot programme
Taler (Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Resources) is a secure electronic payment system based on open standards, free software, and advanced cryptography. Its goal is to make online transactions privacy-friendly, fast & easy and to empower communities to run their own payment infrastructure.
The NGI TALER programme is a pilot funded by the European Commission's Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative and the Swiss state with the aim of bringing GNU Taler to market across Europe. A consortium of 11 partners from 8 European countries is working on NGI Taler. Fifteen percent of the budget of NGI TALER is reserved for open calls to fund additional free and open source efforts that contribute to NGI TALER. The open calls are managed by NLnet foundation. Want to talk about these or other projects within NGI Taler? Visit the community support forum at https://ich.taler.net.
Meet the projects!
Interledger interoperability inquiry
The Interledger Protocol and Open Payments API specification are the payment protocols used for an online tipping specification being proposed in the W3C Web Platform Incubator Community Group called Web Monetization. The Web Monetization specification allows for automatic streaming micropayments and low-friction on-demand tipping to online creators who specify an Open Payments wallet address in their HTML or respective metadata of the online experience (e.g. JSON-LD in Activity Streams/ActivityPub, XML attribute in podcast RSS).
This project proposal will investigate the technical feasibility of using Taler as a payment method on the Interledger payment network to support Web Monetization. The outcome will be a an overview of potential approaches for integrating Taler using the Interledger Protocol or as a payment method in Interledger’s Open Payments API reference implementation (Rafiki).
▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Interledger-study
GNU Taler Tryton/GNUHealth integration
This project will develop a Tryton module which would allows users to integrate payments with GNU Taler into their webshops, businesses. Tryton is a popular libre business management system used for operating webshops and enterprise resource planning. There are many modules for financial accounting, sales, inventory and stock, CRM, shipping, subscription management, etc. Existing payment provider integrations within Tryton are limited to specific proprietary payment providers, having a Taler based option would allow organisations to handle Taler based payments (incoming as well as outgoing).
GNU Health (which is built on Tryton) provides a suite of libre alternatives for Hospital Management software, Health Information Systems and Electronic Health Records. Integration of privacy preserving payments with TALER in GNU Health will deliver a much needed contribution to medical privacy, providing the first digital alternative (next to cash payment) which allows patients to pay for their personal medical treatment and medication directly and with full discretion - keeping the doctor-patient privilege intact.
▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Tryton
Apply for funding
If you would like to contribute to the NGI TALER programme, the fourth open call is currently running with deadline December 1, 2024. (As well as open calls for other programmes.)
Acknowledgements
NGI Taler project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101135475. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
