NGI0 Commons Fund

ActivityPods 3.0 — Encrypted Solid-compatible Pods

ActivityPods brings together two game-changing protocols, ActivityPub and Solid Pods, and empowers developers to create fully-decentralized social apps thanks to an easy-to-use framework. In the planned version 3.0, Solid clients will be able to connect to ActivityPods just like any other Solid Pod provider. Furthermore, ActivityPods 3.0 will build a bridge with the world of P2P protocols, since it will be using NextGraph (a local-first P2P solution based on CRDT) as a triple store. The result is that all Pod data will be encrypted. In addition, users will be able to create a NextGraph wallet and use it to give NextGraph apps access to their Pod data. This will allow ActivityPods to provide the first "social Pods" with built-in Fediverse communication and improved data security, potentially attracting more developers and users to the Solid and ActivityPub ecosystems.

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Ada Bootstrap Compiler — Full source bootstrap for Ada

Ada is an important computer language with a long history, with the compilers being built for new architectures in an ad-hoc basis based on previously existing Ada compilers from other architectures. This project aims to create a bootstrap path from the C language to an Ada compiler without relying on an existing Ada compiler binary. This will allow us to have a fully auditable trail from C to a working Ada compiler, removing concerns about hidden backdoors or other issues that may arise from using a compiler without a clear bootstrap path.

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Aiohttp type checking — Improve typechecking for Aiohttp HTTP Client/Server framework

aiohttp is a widely used asynchronous HTTP Client/Server framework for async IO within the popular Python language ecosystem. The advantage of asynchronous frameworks is that they don't block the client while the server process HTTP requests. Instead, the user can do other operations client side. This grant will improve the coverage for type annotation of the Python test code of its dependencies, providing a more robust framework to downstream users and developers alike.

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Alaveteli GDPR and Search — Better search and redacting capabilities for Alaveteli FOI request portal

Alaveteli is an open source platform deployed in 20+ countries that helps citizens make Freedom of Information requests and publishes them and the responses online. Access to Information laws are powerful tools by which citizens, journalists, and civil society organisations can obtain information to scrutinise government. Such legislation is an important prerequisite for accountability and bottom up participation, making it one of the cornerstones of a healthy democracy.

Alaveteli’s architecture was designed long before the introduction of GDPR. This makes it challenging to balance public access to information with protection of citizens' individual data rights. The project aims to redesign and replace Alaveteli’s antiquated search architecture and technology and implement key missing functionality to effectively locate and, when appropriate, remove personally identifiable information to ensure GDPR compliance.

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Yama Analytics — Privacy-friendly analytics microservice using server logs

For small organisations and individuals who wish to respect their visitors' privacy while needing to obtain analytics, there are limited options. The most elegant option (and the most privacy-respecting one) is to provide real-time analytics by ingesting the web server logs. This doesn't involve/require doing anything client-side (no scripting, no invisible pixels, etc): all the information needed can be derived from these log files without resorting to tricks. The form factor of a drop-in microservice allows for easy integration into other tools (which offers a significant improvement in terms of usability), and makes it portable. The end result will provide a neat solution for small actors to make self-hosting of their website 'batteries included'.

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Mifos X (Apache Fineract) — Type safety for/refactoring of Apache Fineract banking software

Apache Fineract is a sophisticated core banking system that provides comprehensive financial technology solutions. It offers features for client data management, loan and savings portfolio management, integrated real-time accounting, as well as extensive reporting capabilities. By commoditising core banking infrastructure, Fineract empowers communities and organisations of any size to integrate financial services everywhere.

Mifos X includes a payment orchestration engine and mobile banking apps, lowering the threshold to participate in the digital economy. In the scope of this project, type-safety is added to the software, QueryDSL is introduced to generate code and a significant amount of technical debt is resolved.

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Bubble-up — Declaritive schema migrations for sqlite databases

SQLite is widely regarded as the most-used database engine, with sqlite.org even suggesting that it surpasses all other engines combined. One of its main advantages is its simplicity—operating on a single file. However, while getting started with SQLite is straightforward, modifying the database schema can be more complex due to its limited support for ALTER commands compared to other databases.

Bubble-up is a command-line tool designed to ease this challenge. It enables seamless schema migrations for SQLite databases by comparing your desired schema (written in a simple SQL file with standard DDL statements) to the current database structure, and performing the necessary changes.

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Pushing forward for CSS Print — High end print from HTML and CSS

The Web is one of the largest common resources, accessible to everyone across the globe, based on standards maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Certain CSS modules have been developed specifically for paginated design and publication: the fragmentation model, which divides content into pages, columns, or regions, and includes features such as controlling flow breakpoints (page breaks, column breaks, etc.). Additionally, three W3C CSS modules focus on formatting for "paginated media", defining how pages are structured and providing essential functionality for printed page layouts, including margin sizes, page numbering, running headers, footnotes, templates, and element positioning on the page. However, these modules remain in the Working Draft phase, and currently no web browser has fully implemented them.

In response to this limited browser support, several open-source initiatives (such as WeasyPrint and Paged.js) have emerged over the past 15 years, each with a unique approach to addressing these challenges. The user community continues to grow, new layout requirements have arisen, revealing that the current specifications are insufficient to meet the demands of modern paginated layout. As developers, maintainers and users of these open-source solutions, our goal is to address these gaps by collaborating on the development of new specifications in a structured and collective manner, demonstrating the feasibility of these new specifications by implementing them in various tools and engaging in advocacy with the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) to promote the adoption of these new specification proposals.

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CityBikes — Open access API for bike sharing information

Citybikes is the most comprehensive open access API for bike sharing information, with support for more than 700 cities all around the world. The goal of the project is to promote open data policies and showcase the benefits of open data to city councils and companies that provide public services to society.

Less than 25% of Citybikes data comes from open data standard feeds—for every city in citybikes publishing their bike sharing information in a reusable format, there are at least three more that do not use a standard format. Citybikes aims to change that by providing developers, researchers and organizations with a standard resource to bridge this gap and contribute towards an interoperable open data ecosystem for mobility services.

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ClassQuiz — Libre quizing tool

ClassQuiz is a quiz application designed for, but not limited to, classrooms. It allows anyone to create live quizzes to engage the audience in a fun way, where each player also competes against the others by answering questions as fast as possible to score high. By providing a simple setup for self-hosting, it also allows many educators to host quizzes without any privacy concerns. ClassQuiz was born as an alternative to Kahoot! because educational software for students should be built with privacy in mind.

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Clearance — Curating changes to OpenStreetMap data of interest

Clearance is an open-source tool designed to enhance the reliability and increase confidence in collaborative OpenStreetMap (OSM) data by acting as a quality control proxy between OSM and data consumers and functioning as a standard OSM data source (OSM PBF or overpass API).

OSM map data is created collaboratively and continuously updated by the contributor community. While most changes are made in good faith, low quality changes or mistakes may occur, especially by beginners. Bad faith changes also exist, but are less frequent. When you rely on OSM data, as a service provider or end user, quality and avoiding breaking changes is important. That's the issue Clearance addresses.

Clearance holds suspicious or potentially problematic changes, while keeping replication up to date for those respecting quality rules. It reworks OSM changes into coherent groups based on topological, geospatial, and semantic object relationships. Rejected data groups must be corrected in OSM or accepted manually. It provides local atomic changes that preserve data integrity. It helps identify semantically equivalent objects despite technical changes (splits, merges, redraws, dimension changes).

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Securing Internet protocols with decentralized identity — DIDs and Verified Credentials as SASL method

There has been much innovation in the last few years in the area of decentralized digital identity, including the development of standards such as Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs). These technologies have led to large-scale initiatives around the world to develop digital identity wallets, including for example the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI). These initiatives aim at making it possible to obtain and use digital versions of identity documents such as drivers' licenses, birth certificates, university diplomas, and more.

The potential of these technologies however is much greater than just logging in to websites. In this project, we work on integrating decentralized digital identity technologies into widely used Internet protocols themselves, such as XMPP for instant messaging. In this case, a combination of identity and messaging means that you can authenticate to a messaging service using a digital identity wallet, rather than username and password. We accomplish this by specifying and building a DID-based extension for the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).

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Data Package implementation in TypeScript — Reference implementation of data definition language and data API

Data Package is a standard consisting of a set of simple yet extensible specifications to describe datasets, data files and tabular data. It is a data definition language (DDL) and data API that facilitates findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) of data. TypeScript implementation of the Data Package standard provides all the necessary functionality for working with data packages in Node.js or similar environments — including validating and extending metadata, and reading or writing data in various formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, and OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300) as used by e.g. Excel and LibreOffice.

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DatamiPods — Visualisations for (federated) Solid data

Datami is a tool to edit, visualize and share your data. It allows to transform datasets into discoverable, understandable and reusable data. ActivityPods is a collective data space solution based on Solid and ActivityPub.

The DatamiPods project creates a bridge between these two existing open source tools, and aims to simplifies the use of the datasets involved - also for less technical users.

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Decidim revamp — Tools for participatory democracy

Decidim is a free and open, digital infrastructure for participatory democracy. Decidim allows to create and configure a web platform to be used as a political network for democratic participation. The platform is freely available for organisations and institutions seeking to initiate participatory processes such as deliberation, decision-making, collaboration, direct democracy and co-design.

In order for the project to reach a new stage of technical maturity, the project will overhaul the user experience through a complete redesign of its interface. It is necessary to review, order and, if necessary, remove features. This project is focused on doing the less visible, but necessary work, to make the code clean and sustainable in the long term.

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Dino — User-friendly and secure instant messaging based on XMPP

Dino is an open-source messaging application. It uses XMPP as an underlying protocol, which allows federated, provider-independent communication and offers a world-wide network of interconnected servers. Dino aims to be secure and privacy-friendly while at the same time offering a good user experience and a modern feature set.

This project is about adding various additional usability and privacy features such as Message moderation in groupchats (XEP-0425), message deletion (XEP-0424) and local message deletion, improved password handling and connection establishment via SASL2 (XEP-0388), Bind2 (XEP-0386), FAST (XEP-484) and storing secrets in the system keyring, improved file transfers including sending multiple images in the same message via Stateless File Sharing (XEP-0447), improving the UX in MUCs by using more efficient protocols like MUC Affiliation Versioning (XEP-0463) and by making further use of occupant IDs (XEP-0421) in the context of message correction and message deletion. It will also extending support of message formatting via Message Markup (XEP-0394).

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EPE (Ecran-Papier-Editer | Screen-Paper-Editing) — Creative libre software tools for print media

Ecran-Papier-Editer is a first phase of construction of a set of innovative, open and alternative, reasoned and sustainable editorial software tools, resulting from graphic design practices and intended for the cultural and creative sectors - and for all players in publishing and publishing in all sectors. The project involves European and international universities (graphic design departments), a national arts & sciences scene, a paper engineering school, and a computer engineering school.

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Empowering Mobilizon — Find, create, organise and curate events

Mobilizon empowers users to create collaborative platforms for promoting local events, activities, and groups. Utilizing the ActivityPub protocol, these platforms facilitate information sharing, allowing users to publish their events on one Mobilizon instance and broadcast them across others when appropriate. Designed with user-friendliness in mind, Mobilizon aims to reduce local advertisers' reliance on major tech companies. Currently, dozens of Mobilizon instances are operational, collectively attracting thousands of users. However, this is not enough to harness the full potential of the network effect and drive meaningful societal change. Numerous enhancement requests and areas for improvement have been identified, and it is crucial to refine and prioritize these initiatives. Should we enhance federation with ActivityPub? Develop solutions to combat spam? Allow users to join a waiting list for fully booked events? Improve categorization and search functionalities? Address persistent bugs? Optimize response times? To tackle these challenges, we aim to establish a governance structure involving other instance administrators. Together, we can prioritize the most impactful changes and integrate them into our roadmap, ultimately making it easier for the community to discover and engage with local activities.

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Every Door — Efficient and customizable mobile OpenStreetMap editor

Every Door is an open-source OpenStreetMap editor for Android and iOS devices. It focuses on efficient on-the-ground surveying, mainly on points of interest and addresses. With the app, one can fully map an entire shopping mall or an entire village in a matter of hours. The next steps for the editor are vector tiles and customization: tailoring Every Door for focused mapping and adding interoperability with third-party services.

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F3D — Cross-platform, fast and minimalist 3D viewer

F3D is an open source, community-driven, cross-platform, fast and minimalist 3D viewer. Already integrated into many Linux distributions, F3D is packed with features that let users visualize and render their 3D models efficiently. F3D supports dozens of file formats and aims to be the go-to solution for simply taking a look at any 3D model, it also supports thumbnails and integrates well in the desktop experience on Windows and most Linux desktop environments. F3D is also the libf3d, a C++ API to simply and efficiently render 3D models, with Python, Java and Javascript bindings. As such, the libf3d is available as a python wheel on pypi and will soon be available as an npm package. The F3D community thrives to be inclusive and welcoming, with a clear contribution and maintenance process where everything is discussed openly with any interested parties.

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FederatedCode Next — UI and curation queue for VulnerableCode data enrichment

VulnerableCode is an open-source database that aggregates and enriches data concerning CVE with metadata to make it easier to track CVEs across packages and dependencies. VulnerableCode was designed from its inception to correlate and aggregate multiple data sources and not have a single point of failure. The FederatedCode Next project aims to create a UI and curation queue for VulnerableCode in order to take the next step towards an open, peer-to-peer federated database of code vulnerabilities.

This allows to to ensure cybersecurity professionals have the essential information they need to do their work when new vulnerabilities are unveiled - such as PURL and VERS version ranges for impacted and fixed package versions, Common Weakness Enumeration details to qualify the weakness exposed by a CVE, severity scoring, mitigation possibilities beside updating and patching, the actual commits/patches that introduce/fix a vulnerability for reachability analysis, related PoC for exploits, etcetera.

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Flock XR — 3D visual creativity and coding tool

Flock XR is a visual creativity and coding tool that allows young people to create 3D experiences in a web browser. Flock XR allows young people and beginners to create apps relevant to the virtual worlds that they use socially. Through creating with Flock XR, young people develop technical and creative skills such as coding and working in 3D space with 3D models and animations. They will be able to create using extended reality features including VR, Augmented Reality, 3D printing and spatial audio. This puts them on the path to amazing career opportunities across many industries. Flock XR is being developed with an inclusion first approach using co-design techniques with young people in our pilots. After a successful schools pilot we are focussing on improving user experience, stability and access for all.

Flock XR builds on established open source tools, Blockly and Babylon.js to bring modern 3D creation to young people on the devices they already use. We’re designing Flock XR for users who may have older hardware and limited data access. And we take young people’s rights, safety and data privacy very seriously. We’re extending young people’s reality with Flock XR and giving them the skills to create the virtual worlds that humanity needs.

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Follow-me slideshow for Collabora Online — Accessible slideshows for videoconferencing tools

Collabora Online is an open source online office suite built on LibreOffice technology, enabling web-based collaborative real-time editing of word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics. This project improve the presentation mode with a feature where one leader can control the presentation and others can remotely follow this easily, including slide transitions, animations and other complex content. This includes some accessibility support and integration into existing open-source video call software.

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Wikirate Frameworks — Open corporate data in Wikirate through the lens of standards

Wikirate.org is the largest open-source open-data registry of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data about companies. The project, “A Frameworks Framing: Open Corporate data through the lens of standards”, aims to enhance Wikirate.org by integrating ESG standards and frameworks as key navigational and analytical tools. The enhancements will make it easy for diverse stakeholders – such as researchers, CSOs and investors – to navigate the many existing frameworks conceived to organize ESG data. It can be very difficult to wrap one’s head around any single ESG framework, much less to see how all the frameworks interrelate. There is, however, quite a lot of interrelation. Frameworks end up needing the answers to overlapping questions (or, in Wikirate terms, metrics). The functionality developed in this grant will enable users to see how Wikirate metrics and datasets align with one or more frameworks. The project will facilitate better understanding and use of corporate data for stakeholders by streamlining the organization of ESG topics, advancing open standards, and making frameworks central to exploring metrics.

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FuseSoc-compatible Web Catalog — A catalog of gateware that can be easily used with FuseSoC

FuseSoC is a package manager for chip designs, allowing for easy reuse and sharing of IP cores as well as combining them into larger systems. Its native core description format (CAPI2) allows describing IP cores in a tool- and vendor-independent way. Together with FuseSoC's backend library Edalize this enables creating and using portable IP cores and SoCs for a large number of EDA tools and flows.

This project will extend FuseSoC with a collaborative database and a web frontend that allows users to upload their core description files to a central repository to make it easier for others to find and inspect them. In addition, signing, SBOM generation and a web frontend will be added to increase transparency, trust and security.

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Garage Administration UI — Easier administration for selfhosted storage buckets

Garage is a lightweight geo-distributed data store that implements the Amazon S3 object storage protocol. Garage is meant primarily for self-hosting at home on second-hand commodity hardware, and aims be easy to deploy and maintain, so that hobbyists and small organizations can use it without a hassle. To further this goal, the Garage admin interface project aims to develop a web UI to make cluster administration easier and more intuitive. This interface will cover the most common operations on Garage cluster: visualizing cluster status; joining new nodes, removing nodes, and changing node configuration; and management of S3 access keys, buckets and bucket configurations.

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USB 3 PHY implementation on GateMate FPGAs — USB 3 PHY implementation with Cologne Chip GateMate FPGA Transceiver

Since its introduction at the end of the previous century, USB has developed into the most widely used interface to connect all sorts of electronic devices. Recent versions of the USB standard provide serial communication at speeds of 5Gbps and higher, which require a dedicated hardware block (transceiver) inside a chip. Throughout the last decade, FPGA devices are gaining popularity in many applications and this trend will not stop. Even small and low-cost modern FPGA devices, such as GateMate FPGA from Cologne Chip AG, include transceivers capable of communication at 5Gbps. However, no Open Hardware and FOSS implementation of USB 3.x is available. This project will enable a universal and libre USB 3.2 Gen.1 x1 (5Gbps) connectivity on the GateMate FPGA.

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Nix Integration for Hop3 — Nixify the Hop3 self-hosted cloud platform

Hop3 is an open-source orchestration platform designed to simplify the deployment and management of distributed applications across cloud and edge environments. With a focus on flexibility, security, resilience, and ease of use, Hop3 empowers developers and small organisations to take full control of their IT infrastructure and data, ensuring digital sovereignty and avoiding vendor lock-in. The project will enhance the Hop3 platform by integrating Nix, a powerful package manager known for its ability to create reproducible environments, to improve build-time flexibility and ensure consistent, reliable run-time performance. As a test bed and showcase of this integration, we will package 20 diverse and impactful F/OSS applications. Additionally, we will develop new resilience and cybersecurity features to further strengthen the platform's robustness and security.

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Federating pedagogical immersive experiences — Framework for playful learning content in enhanced reality

Emerging technologies like augmented and virtual reality (XR) provide incredible avenues to teach and learn. Unfortunately, nearly all content and ways to create it remain centralized through large captive platforms. Such platforms lock users and their creations to their closed source environment and filtering mechanisms. This process risk reflecting assumptions on how teaching can be done. The project "Federating pedagogical immersive experiences" proposes a self-hostable platform to remix simple pedagogical XR games. Learners themselves can then, together with parents and teachers, freely share back pedagogically, culturally and linguistically adapted content - curated by their own instance and benefiting from immersive technologies without being locked to a platform.

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Collabora Online Multi-user Infinite Canvas — Infinite Canvas / collaborative presentation mode for Collabora Online

Collabora Online is an open source online office suite built on LibreOffice technology, enabling web-based collaborative real-time editing of word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics. This project will implement an infinite canvas for presentations, a presentation mode where individual slides are positioned in a 2.5D plane - which becomes apparent when moving from one slide to another. This allows for non-linear presentation modes, as well as presenting the overall outline of the whole presentation in a visual way which users can intuitively grasp.

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Accessible KDE File Management — Accessible file dialogs throughout KDE applications

This project aims to make a core part of computing with KDE software, namely file management, fully accessible. Many applications and frameworks by KDE are used in high-profile institutions and the public sector. Even though a main point of focus of this project is the improvement of accessibility in KDE's default file manager Dolphin, most of the work benefits framework code which is used in many of the most popular applications in the FLOSS ecosystem. As such, this project will empower people with disabilities around the world to perform more computer-driven tasks efficiently.

The accessibility improvements to "Open/Save" dialogs, the keyboard shortcut editor, and various other panels and dialogs will simplify integration of people with handicaps in various social and work contexts including public institutions and private companies, which in turn will allow more of them to base their digital infrastructure on open standards and digital commons in line with EU's value "to be free from discrimination on the basis of […] disability".

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KDE Plasma Gestures — Advanced customisable gesture input on desktop and mobile

Plasma Desktop, made by the KDE community, is a powerful free and open source platform that competes with proprietary operating systems. This project will introduce new functionality for multi-touch and stroke gestures. Multi-touch gestures allow a user to easily switch between virtual desktops, or to open Plasma's Overview mode. They will become customizable, with a wide selection of available desktop actions. Stroke gestures allow drawing shapes to trigger actions, launch apps, and more. They will be introduced into Plasma's core desktop experience, complete with a configuration page in System Settings. Together, these features will make Plasma Desktop even more productive and intuitive to use.

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Kaidan MUC + legacy OMEMO — Multi-user chat and improved legacy interoperability for Kaidan XMPP client

Kaidan is a user-friendly and modern chat app for every device. It uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber). Unlike other chat apps, you are not dependent on one specific service provider. Instead, you can choose between various servers and clients. Kaidan is one of those XMPP clients.

It is easy to get started and switch devices with Kaidan. Additionally, it adapts to your operating system and device's dimensions. It runs on mobile and desktop systems including Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, Plasma Mobile and Ubuntu Touch. The user interface makes use of Kirigami and Qt Quick. The backend of Kaidan is entirely written in C++ using Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp.

This project will make improvements to Kaidan across the board, ranging from multi-user chat, backups, bookmarks, support for legacy OMEMO encryption, SASL improvements, message retraction and more media sharing functionality.

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LLM2FPGA — Run Open Source LLMs locally on FPGAs

LLM2FPGA aims to enable local inference of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) on FPGAs using a fully open-source toolchain. While LLM inference has been demonstrated on proprietary hardware and software, we are not aware of any widely recognized project running open-source LLMs on FPGAs through a fully open-source EDA (Electronics Design Automation) flow. To fill this gap, the project will produce an HDL implementation of a lightweight open-source LLM, verify it via simulation, and then attempt synthesis and place-and-route on freely supported FPGA devices. By providing a fully open alternative to proprietary and cloud-based LLM inference, LLM2FPGA will offer a transparent, flexible, and privacy-friendly way to run your own LLM on local hardware.

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Land — Code editor building on Tauri and VSCodium

Land is a customisable open-source code editor that puts users in control and emphasizes rebuildability. Land in particular aims to provide a smooth and responsive alternative to VS Code™, the proprietary code editor on which many developers currently depend. Land allows you to continue to use the key features developers rely on in VS Code, but also allows to remove intrusive integrations and undesirable dependencies. Because Land is powered by Tauri instead of Electron, it won't hog your resources. Compared to VS Code it has enhanced modularity and extensibility, and obviously telemetry is disabled by default. Take back control of your code, rebuild your tools your way.

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LeanFTL — Flash Translation Layer library for embeddedsystems

LeanFTL is a "Flash Translation Layer" library targeting embedded systems. An FTL library is needed on all embedded systems to deal with the constraints inherent to flash memories and to be able to resume operations safely after an unexpected loss of power (AKA "tearing events"). LeanFTL aims at being a minimal library easily portable to any MCU and able to manage both internal and external flash memories. LeanFTL goal is to avoid fragmentation by design, this means that fragmentation never occurs no matter the usage pattern. Another important feature is the emulator which allows running LeanFTL on a personal computer, allowing the integrator to provide such an emulator for its firmware. Last but not least, the emulator is able to simulate "tearing events" - this is key to ensure robustness and security of an embedded system. In other words, LeanFTL not only provide the Flash Translation Layer, it also provides a tool for validating it is correctly used, something which is typically lacking even in commercial libraries.

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LiberaForms — Self-hostable E2EE libre form server

LiberaForms is an online form tool to easily create and manage forms. It can be used by neighbours, friends, colleagues and anyone else who values privacy. The server can be self-hosted and form answers can be end-to-end OpenPGP encrypted. LiberaForms comes with a comprehensible list of features for both form authors and site administrators alike, such as integrated GDPR policies. This grant will be used to make a number of usability improvements, to make LiberaForms a relevant tool for educational use cases, and add many new features requested by the people who already use it.

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LibrePCB 2.0 — New UI & powerful features for a future-proof LibrePCB

LibrePCB is a free and open source electronics design automation (EDA) software suite to develop printed circuit boards (PCBs). It runs on all major platforms and aims to be easy to use, while still beeing able to create professional schematics and PCBs. While it is already used productively by people all around the world, the development of new features became to stuck because of limitations of the current UI concept. To pave the way for new features, a completely new UI will be developed with the goal of having a unified, tabbed window as known and proven by many other applications. In addition, a first attempt of moving from C++ to the safer language Rust will help us to benefit from modern technologies. Together with more import/export capabilities, performance improvements and other frequently requested features the outcome will be released to users by a new major version LibrePCB 2.0.

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Livebook — Robust and distributed data and ML workflows with Python, Elixir, and Livebook

Livebook is an open-source interactive notebook application for the Elixir programming language and the Erlang VM ecosystem. It enables users to write, execute, and document code in real-time within a browser interface, making it ideal for exploratory programming, data analysis, teaching, and documentation. Livebook features built-in markdown support, real-time collaboration, custom visualizations, "smart cells" to automate common workflows, as well as built-in concurrent and distributed execution. The project supports the Elixir and Erlang languages and is integrating additional ones.

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MNT Reform Touch — Open Hardware tablet device

For an increasing amount of people tablets are the main computing device - as a simpler, more portable alternative to laptop or desktop computers. Tablets are particularly suited for consuming entertainment and web browsing. They also serve some specialized use cases in digital design, AR, and education. This rise in usage has not been accompanied by an equivalent openness in terms of development and maintenance. Desktop computers are typically easy to take apart and upgrade with commodity components, and for laptops this is often possible to some extent as well.

The tablet devices consumers typically use are locked down black boxes running operating systems that consistently compromise privacy and security. This project aims to develop an open source hardware table based on modular principles, with a focus on Linux Mobile integration. A such its contributes meaningfully to a growing ecosystem of FOSS devices.

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Test Procedures for MOSFET SPICE Model Validation — Verilog-A compact models validation for Open PDK's

The emergence of open PDK initiatives reduce barriers to entry for integrated circuit (IC) design and manufacturing, serves thelong term goal of promoting academic/industrial collaboration, and stimulate innovation in the field of semiconductor IC design. Open PDKs have the potential to "standardize" PDKs (process design kit), and move away from proprietary/licensed EDA vendor formats. This is needed to democratize open source IC design flow and manufacturing. Open PDKs provide open access to IC design resources.

The compact/SPICE models of semiconductor devices are the core of open PDK efforts. SPICE executes implemented Verilog-A compact models. A model of a semiconductor device (passive elements and active, eg: diodes, mosfets, bjts) is primarily a "compact device model". Validation benchmarks are not yet available in the public domain. This project represents the very first attempt to implement these tests for the compact model available in open PDKs. It aims to establish such tests for the compact models in open PDKs, which are intended to be generic enough for model quality assurance testing with FOSS circuit simulators such as GnuCAP, ngspice, xyce, Qucs, among others.

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MOTIS — European Public Transport Door to Door Real-Time Routing with MOTIS

This project aims to enhance MOTIS, an open-source, scalable, intermodal real-time routing system that powers the provider-neutral public transport routing service transitous.org. This grant will add support for the relevant European Transmodel data standards NeTEx, SIRI-ET, SIRI-SX, and OJP. Hereby, we will enable open and privacy friendly borderless routing across Europe from door to door using data published by European National Access Points (NAP) in compliance with EU regulation 2017/1926. Its results will be deployed via transitous.org and integrated into applications such as KDE Itinerary, KTrip, and Gnome Maps, fostering a fully open alternative to proprietary solutions.

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Maemo Leste Daedalus — Improve device coverage and advanced security for mobile Linux distro

Maemo Leste is a Free and Open Source mobile operating system based on GNU/Linux. The goal of the initiative is to provide a secure and modern mobile operating system that consists only of free software, obeys and respects the users' privacy and digital rights. Maemo Leste is currently focussing on upgrading and modernising it's core to the latest Debian and Devuan versions, improving the stability and security of the system as well as widening the array of supported devices.

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Manyfold — ActivityPub-powered tool for storing and sharing 3d models

Manyfold is a web application for managing collections of 3d models, with a focus on the needs of the 3d printing community. It is designed to be self-hosted, and lets users browse, organise, and analyse their downloaded models. With NLNet’s support, the project has recently launched federation features using ActivityPub, progressive transmission of 3d models, and a wide range of core feature enhancements. The next phase of the project will build on this base to create richer social features, better ways to get models into and out of the system, features to help financially support creators, and improvements to search and discovery features, all of which will help build an open, decentralised ecosystem for 3d model hosting.

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Massive FOSS scan — License scan on the whole Software Heritage archive

ScanCode is a comprehensive open source license and code origin scanner. It is actively used by many proprietary and FOSS tools for Software Composition Analysis. This project will make detecting FOSS licenses an issue of the past by running a massive license scan on the whole Software Heritage archive of over 20 billion unique source code files from more than 327 million projects, and the PurlDB index of all major package registries and linux distro's. The outcomes will be a massive commons reference database to speed up future scanning and matching processes with accurate license information, and a massive collection of fingerprints to enable approximate code matching at scale. This will be applied to the Software Assurance/MatchCode project, and available for other users and organizations as open data to improve FOSS code matching and discovery at an unprecedented scale.

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Mautic Portability — Portable marketing campaigns for Mautic

Mautic is an open source marketing automation platform. It helps organizations to better understand their customers throughout their lifecycle, and, combined with what they already know about the customer and how they interact with marketing campaigns, enables full personalization of the digital experience across multiple channels. This project lays the foundation for an important feature which is much-requested and much-needed, to create a library of example campaign workflows and associated resources which marketers can install with a single click, saving time and improving best practice adoption. This project sees the establishment of an export and import functionality for campaigns and all associated resources. This project will also enable the export and import of this data between Mautic instances, further improving data portability.

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Mobile Typst editor — Mobile editor/viewer for Typst documents

Typst is a new markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. The Typst for iOS project focuses on creating a smooth Typst document editing experience akin to Swift Playground's editing experience. Additionally it allows the compilation, presenting and sharing of pdf files all from an iPhone or iPad.

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Open Terms Archive vendor lock-in break — Public tracking of the evolution of terms and conditions

Open Terms Archive is a digital public good that archives every version of the terms of over 800 digital services to support democratic oversight by regulators, lawmakers, journalists, researchers, and civil society. Open Terms Archive has prioritized adoption in multiple industries and jurisdictions over the past four years, by enabling easy connection from its fully open-source engine to free but proprietary platforms. The "Open Terms Archive vendor lock-in break" project aims at replacing the hardcoded interconnections with proprietary software with standardized APIs and connectors for at least one open-source platform for issue reporting, email notifications, dataset distribution, and RSS feeds publishing, while keeping compatibility with existing integrations that are used by community members.

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Mustang - UI components — Integrated email, team chat, video conference, calendar and file exchange

Mustang is an Open-Source desktop and mobile app that seamlessly integrates email with team chat, video conference, calendar and file exchange into a single app for communication. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and planned for Android and iOS. It respects user privacy and data sovereignty, keeping the data on your own computer systems. By supporting various open protocols (and optionally through extensions also closed protocols of multiple vendors), it allows for a smooth transition to openness. In this project, certain UI components will be developed, the File Sharing UI be improved, and a prototype UI for Structured Data in email (SML) be implemented. As time permits, other components will be developed as well.

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Mustang UX — Integrated email, team chat, video conference, calendar and file exchange

Mustang is an Open-Source desktop and mobile app that seamlessly integrates email with team chat, video conference, calendar and file exchange into a single app for communication. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and planned for Android and iOS. It respects user privacy and data sovereignty, keeping the data on your own computer systems. By supporting various open protocols (and optionally through extensions also closed protocols of multiple vendors), it allows for a smooth transition to openness. In this project, the focus is on UX design, connecting the various apps together to create a unified whole.

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NextGraph Framework — SDK's and API's for the NextGraph Framework

NextGraph is an open source ecosystem that provides solutions for end-users (a platform) and software developers (a framework), wishing to use or create decentralized apps featuring: real-time collaboration, peer to peer communication with end-to-end encryption, local-first, portable and interoperable data, total ownership of data and software, security and privacy. Centered on repositories containing semantic data (RDF), rich text, and structured data formats like JSON, synced between peers belonging to permissioned groups of users, it offers strong eventual consistency, thanks to the use of CRDTs. Documents can be linked together, signed, shared with others, queried using the SPARQL language and organized into sites and containers. Using our framework, SDK and APIs, developers will be able to create standalone or embedded apps that can make capability-based access requests on the user's data, define smart-contracts and implement any business logic within cross-document transactions. With NextGraph, users and apps can securely access and traverse their authenticated data graph (web of data) and social graph (social network), while enabling resilience and data integrity, and preserving privacy and decentralization.

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Ontogen and Mud — Advanced versioning and identity management for RDF datasets

Ontogen is a specialized version control system for RDF datasets, addressing unique challenges in semantic web data management. In this project, we aim to significantly enhance Ontogen's capabilities and usability. A key improvement is extracting and expanding Ontogen's configuration language into Mud, a standalone RDF preprocessing language for comprehensive identity management. Mud will extend beyond configuration, offering expanded identity management for all resources in RDF datasets and providing extensible support for other common operations when working with RDF data, like RDF smushing for example. Also a robust synchronization protocol should be implemented in Ontogen, enabling a complete repository copy in the file system, allowing seamless use of text editors and other file-based utilities for working with the versioned dataset, as well as integration with Git or other file-based version control systems. Additionally, support for datasets with multiple graphs should be extended. These advancements will make Ontogen more flexible, accessible, and secure, paving the way for its adoption in production environments and opening up new possibilities in RDF data management.

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Open Everything Facts — Powering consumer choice on anything with a bar code

When we started Open Food Facts, it already seemed like a bold endeavour to compile comprehensive food product data into a single database, with far-reaching positive impacts, and the rest is history. Why not extend this concept further? Why should consumers not have the same level of informed decision-making power for products beyond food, like their shampoo, bicycles, refrigerators, or ventilation systems? Our ambition is to integrate our existing product databases — Open Food Facts, Open Product Facts, Open Beauty Facts, and Open Pet Food Facts — into one unified, easy-to-navigate mobile application. This will include a universal scan, a new unified versatile and simplified product page, simplified personal and private preferences, as well as the matching contribution experience. Ultimately, this project is a stride towards a world where transparency and informed choices are the norms, not the exception, in every aspect of consumer goods.

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OpenStreetMap-NG — Alternative implementation of OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap-NG is an innovative rethinking of how open mapping platforms can be built and maintained, as an alternative to the current openstreetmap.org setup. Leveraging Python and other widely used technologies and guided by user-centric design principles, this project creates a more accessible, privacy-respecting, and developer-friendly mapping platform. By prioritizing both solid technical foundations and ease of use, OpenStreetMap-NG wants to make open-source mapping more approachable while pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

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Openki Roles — Restructuring role management in libre tool for crowd-sourced education

How do you discover what you can learn from the people around you? How do you search what other people in the same region have to offer, like a training course or a debating event?

Openki is an interface between technology and culture. It provides an interactive web platform developed with the goal to remove barriers for universal education for all. The platform makes it simple to organise and manage "peer-to-peer" courses. The platform can be self-hosted, and integrates with OpenStreetMap. At the moment Openki is focused on facilitating learning groups and workshops. The project will add course templates, streamline roles when organising courses and redesign parts of the interface in order to improve the overall user experience.

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Modernizing Paged.js Web-to-Print — Quality typesetting based on HTML and CSS

Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create print/PDF output from HTML and CSS content. This is necessary for instance for delivering browser-native office productivity solutions - users expect these to produce good output but don't want to have the burden of legacy formats. The proposed project will fundamentally revisit/upgrade the architecture of paged.js. to support additional layouts, add advanced layout capabilities and implement PDF/UA tagging.

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Panoramax — Digital, collaborative immersive street level imagery

Panoramax is an immersive views project. It is a digital, collaborative, free and open community. Access to the photos is free. Panoramax operates as an instance or federation of instances for hosting images. Today, most contributions are made using web interfaces that are not suitable for smartphones. However, this is an important lever for increasing the number of contributions. The aim of the “A mobile app for Panoramax” project is to enable contributions from smartphones, while making them easy for everyone. The application will enable geolocated and sequenced photos to be taken and uploaded to the various community instances.

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Peertube plugin livechat — Public and private messaging for Peertube content + live streams

Peertube is a free, decentralized and sovereign alternative to video-on-demand and live-streaming platforms. The Peertube Livechat project is a popular plugin for PeerTube that adds chatting capabilities to Peertube, so the audience can interact with streamers during their live streams. The functionality goes way beyond a mere chat system: it also provides moderation tools, polls, chat integration in the live stream, TODO-list for streamers and moderation team, and more. Its ambition is to become a complete ecosystem for live streaming.

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PeerTube for Institutions — Make PeerTube easier to manage and moderate at scale

PeerTube is a free-libre and federated video platforms that empowers anyone to self host video content without being isolated in the wide web. Many institutions have started using PeerTube, to reclaim control over their video hosting. By choosing PeerTube, they offer a wider audience the opportunity to familiarize themselves with PeerTube.

A significant part of this project focuses on enabling these institutional use cases, and is designed from their feedback. We plan to add ownership transfer and shared administration for video channels, quality of life features for moderation and administration, more control on an instance look and experience and a set-up wizard with relevant presets (and more). We also want to adapt the mobile app to tablet and TV devices, and add a watch offline option.

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Yrs persistent documents — Yrs/Yjs compatible layer for persistent key-value stores

Yrs is a local-first collaboration library widely used for real-time collaborative editing. Yrs is a a CRDT-based solution that currently works on documents fully loaded into memory, with disk storage happening through plug-ins. The primary goal of this effort is to make it more robust (and less resource-heavy) by creating an alternative implementation that works directly with the on-disk database. All of this needs should happen while remaining compatible with the existing in-memory Yrs implementation as well as the original Yjs JavaScript implementation.

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PodOS — Personal Online Data Operating System aimed at exploring W3C Solid pods

PodOS is an operating system for data on Solid Pods, designed to bridge the gap between specialized apps and raw data management. It is built from the ground up for mobile-first UX, accessibility and maintainability, on top of re-usable custom elements. In the upcoming phase, PodOS will introduce new ways for users to structure, link, and repurpose their data, allowing them to organize information beyond the constraints of individual applications. Users will be able to extract information from classic documents or notes and transform them into structured resources that could be used with other Solid Apps. New developments will emphasise modularity and interoperability by integrating existing data modules, dynamically loaded dashboards and seamless transitions between PodOS and specialized apps. These advancements will give individuals and organizations greater flexibility and control over their data, making the Solid ecosystem more practical, interactive, and user-friendly.

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Podlibre — Dedicated, customizable podcast editor

Podlibre is an all-in-one, customizable podcast editor designed to empower podcasters with a tool they can rely on daily. In the past decade, the popularity of podcasts has exploded - but so far there was no good podcast-specific workflow for creators to handle the process. Obviously one can use generic sound editors, but these are typically geared toward music production and lack features that make it easy for podcasters and journalists to produce consistent podcast content. With a customizable workflow and plugin architecture, Podlibre allows users to tailor their experience while integrating with third-party services. It provides all essential features in one place, including noise reduction, mouth noise editing, multi-channel audio editing, music insertion, local transcription with manual correction, chapter editing, metadata editing (ID3, RSS), local publishing, and publishing to hosting platforms (Castopod, Funkwale, Faircamp).

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Polyglot jaq — Data wrangling tool focusing on correctness, speed, and simplicity.

Data often needs to be processed going from one tool to another. Doing that is potentially a point of failure, as 'quick and dirty' solutions often fail to take into account edge cases. This project will build on top of Jaq, a Rust re-implementation of the widely popular jq syntax with rigorously defined semantics, and extend its approach to other data formats - from legible formats such as XML, YAML, TOML, CSV and Markdown to binary formats. For the latter, the project builds on the versatile parsing toolbox of Kaitai Struct.

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Pomme d’API — Improvements around the Open Food Facts API

Open Food Facts is an open and collaborative database of 3.5M food products from around the world. This project will improve the Open Food Facts API to make it easier for the 250+ apps and services that use it daily to access and contribute food products data. In particular, it will focus on providing easier means to contribute photos and data, better structured data, OpenAPI specifications, and extensive documentation.

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PyCM — Machine learning post-processing and analysis

PyCM is an open-source Python library designed to systematically evaluate, quantify, and report the performance of machine learning algorithms. It offers an extensive range of metrics to assess algorithm performance comprehensively, enabling users to compare different models and identify the optimal one based on their specific requirements and priorities. Additionally, PyCM supports generating evaluation reports in various formats. Widely recognized as a standard and reliable post-processing tool, PyCM has been adopted by leading open-source AI projects, including TensorFlow, Google’s scaaml, Torchbearer, and CLaF. In this grant, the team will implement several new features, such as data distribution analysis, dissimilarity / distance matrices and curve analysis. In addition the project will improve benchmarking and confidence, and introduce an API and GUI for wider adoption.

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Re-isearch Schmate — Extending re-Isearch with a flat vector datatype for embeddings

Schmate is the development name for the evolving next iteration of re-Isearch adding vector datatypes for embeddings and applications like retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Schmate (pronounced "SHMAH-teh") is Yiddish for rag (שמאטע).

In contrast to typical vector stores the proposed re-Isearch+ shall offer a full passage information retrieval system (index and retrieval) using a combination of dense and sparse vectors as well as structure. It is dense passage retrieval (DPR) and a whole lot more. It addresses the stumbling blocks of chunking, has a tight integration of ingest, tokenisation, a number of alternative vector stores and similarity algorithms and, above all, uses a novel combination of understanding document structure (implicit and explicit) to provide a better contextual passage retrieval to solve the problem of misaligned context. This builds on the observation that meaning is also communicated through structure so needs to be viewed in the context of structure. Since structure like the words are meant by the sender (writer) to be received and understood (reader) our approach is to exploit the original author's organization of content to determine appropriate passages rather than relying solely on the chunks.

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Redwax Server Modernisation — Self-hostable X509 certificate based identity management solution

The Redwax Project is a set of tools and web server modules to make it easy to build and deploy secure services on the web. The Redwax modular certificate authority mod_ca provides a set of Apache http server modules that can be combined to form various types of certificate authorities, issuing certificates from a Certificate Sign Request, or with the SPKAC and SCEP protocols, servicing certificate revocation with CRLs and OCSP, and creating timestamps.

The Redwax tool provides a mechanism to read certificates and keys from a wide variety of sources, automatically associating leaf, intermediate, and trusted certificates, and optionally their private keys, then showing the metadata of or writing the certificates in a wide variety of target formats. This project will update the key modules, adjust to the current Apache API's and also fully implement the meanwhile published RFC 8894.

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Repath Studio — SVG editor written in Clojurescript

Repath Studio is a cross platform vector graphics editor, that combines procedural tooling with traditional design workflows. It includes an interactive shell, which allows evaluating code to generate shapes, or even extend the editor on the fly. Supporting multiple programming languages and enriching the existing API is planned. The tool relies heavily on the SVG specification, and aims to educate users about it. Creating and editing SMIL animations - an SVG extension – is an important aspect of the project, that is yet to be fully implemented. An advanced undo/redo mechanism is used to maintain a full history tree of actions in memory, so users will never lose their redo stack. We are exploring ways to persist this history to disk. Some built-in accessibility testing tools are already included, but we want to add more. Extensibility is also something that we want to enhance, in order to allow creating and sharing custom tools and workflows. Integrations with third party tools will also be investigated.

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Reproducible Builds in the Scala ecosystem — Deterministic builds for software written in Scala

While open source components can be audited through their open version history, there is no guarantee that any binaries that are distributed actually correspond to those sources. The technique to validate this is known as "Reproducible Builds": by building the same code on independent infrastructure and verifying the results are identical, you can verify the binary artifacts have not been tampered with. This is useful both for project members who want to verify no malware was inserted via their CI system or developer build machine, and for 'external' auditors who can independently verify the project as a whole is not compromised.

This project intends to improve Reproducible Builds for software written in the Scala language, which typically use the 'sbt' build tool. It will do so by making improvements to the sbt-reproducible-builds sbt plugin and other toolchain components such as sbt plugins and the Scala compiler, so that projects will be reproducible 'out of the box' as much as possible.

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Rusted Platform Module (RPM) — Programming TPMs in pure Rust

The Rusted Platform Module (RPM) project strives to improve and advance Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v2 support and ease of use for the Rust programming language. This includes programming the TPM in pure Rust, without C-based libraries in the background, as well as (commandline) tools for common tasks, etc. This project strives to increase adoption of memory-safe languages for programming of security components like the TPM.

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SSH Stamp — Secure SSH-to-UART bridge for devices with a serial port.

SSH Stamp is a secure wireless-to-UART bridge implemented in Rust (no_std, no_alloc and no_unsafe whenever possible) with simplicity and robustness as its main design tenets. The firmware runs on a microcontroller running Secure SHell Protocol (RFC 4253 and related IETF standards series). This firmware can be used for multiple purposes, conveniently avoiding physical tethering and securely tunneling traffic via SSH by default: easily add telemetry to a (moving) robot, monitor and operate any (domestic) appliance remotely, conduct remote cybersecurity audits on network gear of a company, reverse engineer hardware and software for right to repair purposes, just to name a few examples -a "low level-to-SSH Swiss army knife".

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An OpenScience flavour of Bonfire on NixOS for preprints — Discuss preprints based on W3C ActivityPub federation

Preprints have revolutionised scholarly publishing, offering a rapid and open way to share research findings, establishing priority, receiving early feedback, and accelerating scientific discovery. Online discussions around preprints regularly take place on social media, but there still exists a gap in encouraging fluid discourse around science and making it a recognised academic activity.

This project aims to address the gap by facilitating and integrating these conversations into the scholarly framework using FOSS tooling. Outcomes include; establishing a Bonfire network tailored for preprints, with reproducible deployment made possible via NixOS, bringing existing communities into the Fediverse, amplifying contributions using existing scholarly infrastructure, exploring new models of peer evaluation, and supporting recognition of this crucial scholarly activity.

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Signature PDF — PDF editing and server-based digital signing workflow

Signature PDF allows users to sign PDFs online, individually or with others. The project offers as well the possibilities to reorganize pages (merge, sort, rotate, delete, extract pages, etc.), edit metadata, and compress PDFs. This tool aims to be a free alternative to existing proprietary web services, offering users more control and guarantee of what happens to the PDF processed by the software.

Signature PDF is easily deployable on a server of any size, a laptop, a container image or a Yunohost instance. Scope of the project is to implement verification of signed PDFs, integration into third-party software, improve smartphone ergonomy and accessibility, and other improvementes to meet the requests/needs identified by users.

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Slips Immune I — Active IDP using ARP poisoning

The "Slips Immune I" proposal marks the initial step in building an "Immune System for the Internet," aimed at enhancing cybersecurity by fostering collaboration among computers using local and global decentralized P2P technology. The project focuses on improving the Slips Intrusion Detection System on local networks using Raspberry Pi devices, incorporating advanced detection ML models, isolation capabilities, and blocking techniques to mitigate cyberattacks. Key goals include implementing defense mechanisms, such as ARP poisoning for isolation and firewall-based protection, as well as training a Large Language Model (LLM) assistant to support security orchestration and decision-making. By leveraging machine learning and a collaborative architecture, Slips aims to evolve into a comprehensive, resilient Internet Immune System, where interconnected devices collectively detect, share information, and defend against cyber threats, enhancing protection through shared knowledge and adaptive responses.

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Slipshow — A different paradigm for presentations including flipchart style annotations

Slipshow is an innovative presentation tool that moves away from the traditional slide-based approach. Instead, it provides a dynamic experience similar to using a blackboard, while leveraging the advantages of digital technology. Presentations are created from Markdown files with specific annotations, and users can interact with the content during presentations by drawing directly on it using a mouse or tablet. With the scope of this project, Slipshow will be enhanced by introducing the ability to record annotations, seamlessly integrating them into the presentation for future use.

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Smart lookup & inference for Semantic Data — Knowledge mapping within a postgresql database

Semantic knowledge representations have not evolved since the Semantic Web was proposed during the 1990s. Modern graph databases offer new possibilities for knowledge representation, but the methods are poorly developed and require the use of specialized query languages and clumsy outdated formats. This project aims to make semantic maps easy for general use, using standard SQL databases and modern lightweight data formats. A user workflow starts from a simple note-taking language, then ingesting into a database using a graph model based on the causal semantic spacetime model, to the use of a simple web application for supporting graph searches and data presentation. The aim is to make a generally useful library for incorporating into other applications, or running as a standalone notebook service.

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Sniffnet — User-friendly network monitoring application

Sniffnet is a cross-platform, Rust-based, fully open-source network monitoring application to help everyone keep an eye on their Internet traffic. Sniffnet is a technical tool, but at the same time it strongly focuses on the overall user experience: most of the network analyzers out there are cumbersome to use, while one of Sniffnet's cornerstones is to be usable with ease by virtually anyone. In an era dominated by network traffic encryption, Sniffnet doesn’t follow the standard monitoring approach that included reporting full packets’ payloads, but rather it provides flow-level details such as the country, the organization, the domain name, the upper-layer service, and other parameters that enable a more immediate understanding about the nature of the network traffic.

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Solar FemtoTX motherboard — Low-power motherboard that can run on solar power

Solar FemtoTX motherboard is an open, collaborative effort towards designing an ultra-low power motherboard in a mobile device-sized form factor. It aims to enable seamless integration into an open-source hardware laptop for easy repair/replacement/upgrade, and focusses on low power consumption, faclitating solar-powered devices and quick recharging.

Furthermore, the project aims to make the open-hardware framework extensible by supporting socket-based or embedded processors and peripheral devices that meet a defined size and TDP limit. This interoperability allows newer, ultra low power microprocessors to work within the FemtoTX specification, and is optimized for solar power.

The current project focusses on the initial design and validation of a System-on-Chip to be used in this low-power single board computer.

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StreetComplete Multiplatform — OpenStreetMap editing beyond Android

The goal of this project is to migrate StreetComplete from an Android app to a multiplatform app, making use of Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform for the UI, thus, allowing the app to be released on other platforms, such as iOS and eventually Linux.

This will allow for a significantly larger audience that is able to casually contribute missing data to OpenStreetMap on the go, as StreetComplete is the go-to app for this purpose, aimed at non-tech-savvy people and presented in a slightly gamified fashion. OpenStreetMap, in turn, is the free wiki worldmap.

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Tiliqua — Open audio DSP for FPGAs

Tiliqua is an open-hardware DSP library and reference hardware design which aims to make it easier for musicians and engineers to get started in the world of audio DSP in the context of FPGAs. The Tiliqua DSP library is a suite of commonly-used audio DSP components, written in Amaranth HDL, that can be easily composed in Python to construct a custom FPGA-based DSP pipeline. The Tiliqua reference platform is fully compatible with open-source FPGA toolchains and designed to the Eurorack standard (the most popular hardware synthesizer format) lowering the barrier to entry for those with low/no hardware development experience.

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Tin Snipe DAQ — Digital Aquisition module

The Tin Snipe DAQ is a digital acquisition (DAQ) module targeting diverse professional measurement applications typically found in mid to high end hand-held Multimeters. It focuses on digital mixed signal systems while offering an upgrade over traditional Multimeters in terms of sample rate, giving usable time series data for signal integrity analysis of low speed signals. It's designed as a compact fully integrated module that comes with the necessary AFE, ADC and Signal Processor. It exposes a digital control interface over various buses (UART, I2C, USB and potentially more) to be controlled and read out via an external system processor, thus making it easy to integrate into other systems. It is targeting battery operation like traditional handheld Multimeters and will be heavily optimized for low power consumption but can also be used for bench top applications.

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Verilog-A distiller — Automated porting of models from C to Verilog-A

Analog circuit simulators require compact device models in order to be able to simulate circuits. The de-facto standard language for compact device model dissemination is Verilog-A. Many legacy models exist that are coded for the SPICE3 circuit simulator in the C programming language. Manual conversion from C to Verilog-A is resource-intensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. This reduces the accessibility of legacy models and limits innovation. The Verilog-A Distiller project aims to automate conversion of SPICE3 device models from C to Verilog-A. By automating this conversion, we aim to streamline model implementation, reduce development time, and enhance compatibility across different simulators. Verilog-A Distiller is a converter written in Python that utilizes the pycparser library for reading the C code of SPICE3 models. The parsed models are pruned of unnecessary SPICE3-specific parts, upon which Verilog-A code is emitted. Projects like Ngspice put a lot of effort into cleaning up and improving legacy SPICE3 models. Verilog-A Distiller makes these models available across a wide range of simulators that support Verilog-A.

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VersaTiles — Simplify vector map tile creation, hosting, and interaction

VersaTiles provides vital digital infrastructure for web maps, offering a free, flexible alternative to commercial services. Web maps are essential in fields like data journalism, research, and emergency response, but current commercial solutions are often costly, proprietary, and pose privacy concerns. VersaTiles addresses this by dividing the complex process of map creation, distribution, and visualization into manageable layers, ensuring interoperability and scalability. With its open, transparent approach, VersaTiles promotes digital sovereignty in Europe, empowering public institutions, media, and developers with an accessible, high-quality map infrastructure that avoids vendor lock-in and supports free access to geospatial data.

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Wiktionary QA tools — QA tools to improve the quality, reliability, and consistency of Wiktionary

Part of the Wikimedia family, Wiktionary offers a global open data set pertaining to many languages. This project will create QA infrastructure and tools to further improve the quality, reliability, and consistency of Wiktionary. Expected outcomes include higher quality data, data that is easier to process and consume, and more collaboration among different language editions of Wiktionary.

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XR Fragments Teamware — Design, deploy, federate and integrate portable XR experiences

XR Teamware will develop a publishing platform/forge for XR content, and a Blender plugin with direct import export capabilities to said forge and to Icosa gallery. This would allow 3D creators to easily publish and share their ideas, and preview metadata in Blender before exporting.

XR Fragments itself is a simple public protocol for networked 3D content to discover, reference, navigate and query 3D online assets (read-only), making it part of the web and thus liberating 3D content creation and content from only existing inside gated products. Within the scope of this project, XR Fragments will streamline the design, deployment, hosting, and integration of portable XR experiences - and thus further simplify embedding, cross-platform support and hosting, as well as add vendor specific support.

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ZSWatch — Open smartwatch including software, hardware, and mechanics

ZSWatch is a free and open source smartwatch you can build almost from scratch - including software, hardware, and mechanics. Everything from the lowest level BLE radio driver code to PCB and casing is available for introspection or to be customised to suit your needs.In this project, the team will add interesting new capabilities such as Heart Rate and Blood Oxygen sensor hardware, create a new iteration of hardware to improve wearability, improve documentation, make it easier to upgrade, and make various improvements to the software including optimising power consumption

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Bcachefs userspace integration — Next generation filesystem

bcachefs is a next generation filesystem for Linux, with a fully modern featureset and vastly improved performance, scalability and reliability as compared to legacy filesystems. The main focus of this grant is achieving stability, but on the side there will be work on userspace integration with systemd, reworking the cryptographic API to be more robust, as well as adding the potential for users to generate telemetry data - in order to capture edge cases in the real-world.

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cables.gl editor features — Create beautiful, interactive, visual web content

Cables is a tool which allows people to create beautiful, interactive, visual web content without knowing how to type a line of code. Your work is easily exportable at any time, so you can embed it into your website, use it an immersive VR experience, or integrate into other kinds of creative output. Cables patches can be published, shared, copied and remixed by the entire community. This allows people to constantly learn new things from each other. There is both a browser based version and a standalone, offline version offering a user-friendly development environment.

This new grant adds an improved keyframing- and animation user interface (timeline) that makes cables.gl much more accessible for animators and motion designers. The team will also add a physics engine, Gaussian Splatting (a new method of rendering realistic 3d scenes), dynamic operator instancing/repeating, a stepping debugger and a comprehensive shadergraph system that allows to create complex shaders by combining small modules.

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iTowns — Visualise 2D and 3D geospatial data on virtual globes & maps

iTowns is an open-source framework designed for web-based visualisation, navigation and interaction with 2D and 3D geospatial data on globes and maps. Built on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) open standards, it is developed with data and service interoperability in mind. It seamlessly integrates with geographical services, offering support of standard raster and vector data, including aerial imagery and terrain models. The framework supports large, heterogeneous 3D datasets such as OGC's 3D Tiles, making it ideal to build application for urban-planning and environmental monitoring. It can be easily extended to support other open formats, offering a highly customizable platform for developers.

iTowns is a geographic commons, developed collectively by a diverse community of contributors, comprising independent developers, public organizations, research laboratories and private companies. It aims to provide an European alternative to Big Tech products which often overlook a broad class of users. Instead, iTowns offers a modular framework to build a wide range of use cases, including visualisation, GIS, environmental and educational applications, making it versatile and adaptable for different geospatial projects.

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librice — Pure Rust implementation of IETFs real-time communication standard ICE

The Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) protocol is everywhere in real-time communication, providing a rendezvous mechanism allowing to establish e.g. a SIP or WebRTC connection. Addition of another protocol, TURN, allows hosts which are behind a middleware box or CPE (which is the most common scenario in the IPv4 realm) to still successfully set up a bi-directional path. This puts ICE/TURN at the heart of communication. This project will implement the four key TURN RFCs in librice - a pure Rust implementation of ICE.

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linkblocks — Federated bookmark manager based on ActivityPub

Linkblocks is a federated bookmark manager. By combining a web-like graph structure with collaborative features, it aims to make knowledge discovery on the web more open and productive, providing an alternative to social networks and search engines.

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PurlValidator — Check validity of software package identifiers online and offline

Package-URL, or PURL, is the de-facto standard for identifying software packages, used by open source SCA tools, SBOM and VEX specs, and vulnerability databases. But using a standard syntax does not prevent errors: A recent (not yet published) study on the quality of software bill of materials (SBoM) revealed that for too often PURLs in SBOMs are still inconsistent, fake, incorrect, or misleading. This is a major impairment to any application of SBOMs, and industry-wide cybersecurity and application security.

The PurlValidator project is a public service, based on PurlDB, to validate all the PURLs. An extension of the purl2all project, PurlValidator validates the PURL syntax against any known PURLs by exposing PurlDB's reference data of 20M+ PURLs. PurlValidator also provides decentralized libraries for offline use that can be integrated in multiple tech stacks for all major ecosystems, beyond what is already available for PURL tools. The goal of this project is to provide an accessible, single source of truth to the security and SBOM ecosystem at large and improve the quality and accuracy of PURLs in use, imperative for CRA compliance.

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uMap Vector Tiles — Use vector tiles to build custom maps with OpenStreetMap data

uMap is a web application which lets you quickly build custom maps with OpenStreetMap’s background layers and integrate them on your own website. Vector tiles allow two main things: less duplicated content, and data transmitted at the same time as the tiles, enabling scenarii where data and background could be styled according to the user needs, which required previously to serve custom tiles.

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