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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-11
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Operating Systems

p2panda System Service

Real-time collaboration, private sharing and unified local storage of desktop apps

p2panda provides modular components for building modern, privacy-respecting and secure local-first applications. Our goal for the System Service Project is to help GTK and GNOME developers build apps that store data locally, share it privately across devices, and support collaboration — all without requiring an internet connection. For this grant we’re planning to integrate the p2panda stack into a shared system layer that multiple apps can reuse, simplifying development and moving towards a modern, local-first GNOME desktop. The system service will allow automatic, peer-to-peer synchronisation of data in the background and will expose a general sync API via an XDG Desktop Portal.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).