Services + Applications

ActivityPods — Framework for fully-decentralized social apps, combining ActivityPub and Solid Pods

ActivityPods brings together two game-changing protocols, ActivityPub and Solid Pods. The goal is to empower developers to create fully-decentralized social apps thanks to an easy-to-use framework. Following the Solid project's principles, ActivityPods apps store all data directly in the user's Pod (Personal Online Datastore). But since these Pods are also ActivityPub actors, they can easily exchange with other Pods and any other ActivityPub-compatible software. Lightweight bots can access the Pod's data, listen to ActivityPub activities and act accordingly. This novel architecture gives users the freedom (1) to choose where they store their data, (2) to share their data with anyone on the web, (3) to switch apps at any time without losing data. The overall benefit is a more resilient and innovative web, where privacy and interoperability are guaranteed by design.

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AlekSIS — All-libre extensible kit for school information systems

AlekSIS' – short for All-libre extensible kit for school information systems – goal is to digitise educational institutions' organizational tasks in a sustainable, individual and independent manner. Educational institutions are complex and diverse places: A fair bit of information has to be managed and made accessible in a way that serves the needs of all groups involved. Furthermore, the needs of schools differ considerably, making a one-size-fits-all solution infeasible. Originating in and being built in close collaboration with schools, the AlekSIS project provides the missing FOSS solution for this application area. It aims to deliver a fully fledged, highly customizable software suite that gives schools full control over operation, data and privacy, while integrating existing FOSS projects. From displaying timetables to providing digital class records or person and group management, AlekSIS already includes a great deal of the features the people involved in education, students and teachers, need in their daily routine. Designed as a web application built around the Django and Vue.js frameworks, its responsive design and offline capabilities cater to various devices and user groups. A further aspect of AlekSIS' FOSS architecture is to provide learning opportunities to its student users by facilitating the creation of extensions and contributions to the project itself.

The goals of this project are to further strengthen our efforts in porting the whole legacy frontend to the newer, Vue.js based one, to finish making AlekSIS capable of timetable and substitution planning and to extend AlekSIS' functionality making it even more competitively viable.

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AlekSIS SCIM — SCIM, timetabes and other features for AlekSIS

AlekSIS is a free school information system that helps with school organisation as an interactive web application. It is a central platform for students, teachers, and parents to manage any information related to everyday school life. The software's functions include lesson planning, creating timetables, managing absences and substitution planning, the digital class register, inventory management, payment systems, and student ID cards.

AlekSIS is completely modular and can therefore be flexibly adapted to individual needs. Within this grant, the goals is to improve and add integrations with other software, make the timetable and substitution planning easier by providing assistance tools, integrate parents in daily school workflows and provide advanced attendance tracking. Additionally the aim is to get rid of several legacy technologies and update all AlekSIS apps to a more modern technology stack, and improve documentation and demo data accordingly.

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Perspectives: Making Models — Generate software from open models for human interaction patterns

The Perspectives project provides a distributed runtime that allows people to collaboratively run a model that supports them in some form of co-operation. This can be as simple as playing a game of chess or as extensive as coordinating parent's cars to transport a junior sports team to away matches. To completely model the latter is the main thrust of this work, as supported by NLnet and NGI Zero Entrust. The automatic screens generated by the runtime, based on the model, will be customised to provide a pleasant user experience. On the one hand the end result will be a usable little app, run within the InPlace end user program (that itself runs in the browser as a WebApp). On the other hand, it will provide a reasonably extensive model that showcases a realistic application of the Perspectives Modelling language. This development will also be a driving force that will make the distributed runtime better and the modelling language stronger.

Perspectives is built on a figure-ground reversal of the structure underlying much of today's internet. Data is not concentrated in a few heaps of similar-looking cases (commonly called databases) but instead on the devices of the people that are its source, subject and users. It is conceived of such that functionality builds upon other functionality, creating a network effect not in terms of numbers of users but in terms of functionality. The more of that, the better, stronger and more useful it becomes. The current project will deliver the first end user functionality that goes beyond maintaining the system environment itself (such as developing models, hooking up to communication services, etc).

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AREXERA Crawler — C++ based web crawler

The AREXERA web crawler dates back to the early 2000's when AREXERA GmbH (former TECOMAC GmbH) wrote it as part of a toolset to run public search engines like Seekport in Germany and some other European countries. The AREXERA crawler is written in C++ and was designed from the ground up for speed. The crawler supports the common features, like TLS support, robots.txt, politeness rules and WARC file output. The tool was in full production use until the company went out of business, and subsequently development stopped for a while. Recently the code resurfaced, and AREXERA was reborn as a free and open source project. Recent first tests showed still promising performance compared to other widely crawlers. The aim of the project is to bring the crawler up to date with modern requirements and clean up the code, so it can be properly benchmarked with a representative workload - after all, high crawling speed means faster throughput and a lower power consumption per fetched web page.

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Autocrypt for Thunderbird — Make email encryption extremely simple

Autocrypt is a specification that provides guidance for e-mail clients on how to achieve a seamless user experience. It does so by transparently exchanging keys, almost entirely automating public key management. This reduces the UI to "single click for encryption". The project will create an extension for the Thunderbird e-mail client that brings this experience to its users. The goal is to provide a new extension with a streamlined user experience that requires as little user interaction as possible, without "poweruser" features and performing practical user testing to identify open pain points. The extension will be based on OpenPGP.js, since this can be packaged directly. This will simplify installation and maintenance a great deal.

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Bana — Personal network oriented ActivityPub powered social networking

Bana is aimed at private social networking. It is both a server and a mobile Web app, and is federated: anyone can operate a server and people on one server can communicate with people on any other Bana server. Bana uses ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, and the Activity Vocabulary protocols.

Anthropologist Robin Dunbar speculated humans could only comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships. Bana limits you to 150 connections: the closest friends and family members in your life. The connections are reciprocal, meaning both people follow each other. Interactions.

Bana offers a digital journal shared with only the closest people in your life. Bana allows you to post text, photos, videos, audio, location check-ins, workouts, and media consumption - capturing what you want to remember about this particular day in your life.

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Interpretation feature for Big Blue Button — Adding translator streams for live interpretation to BBB conference software

BigBlueButton is one of the leading open source videoconference solutions. The project will add support for simultaneous interpretation to BigBlueButton. Participants of a meeting will be able to choose the language they would like to listen to. Interpreters can choose which language they listen to and into which language they interpret. The solution can be combined with classical radio setups for interpretation already used in grassroot events to enable interpretation in hybrid situations.

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BBBsecureChat — Add E2EE instant messaging to Big Blue Button meetings

BigBlueButton is a video conferencing framework built on open source components. It is being used worldwide for education, events and training, and gained a lot of usage during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst audio and video are being handled by scalable components (notably Freeswitch and Kurento), the chat currently integrated in BBB is a single node.js thread for all conferences. This causes performance problems if used heavily in conferences, and lacks features such as E2EE and emoji support. In this project we will be trying to create an alternative chat service component based on mature open source solutions which have a richer feature set and offer end-to-end encryption. Some of the challenges are: respecting privacy in recordings, allowing chats 1:1 and in break-out rooms, automatic exchange of encryption keys, authentication, SingleSignOn and handling file exchange among chat users. We will be testing the enhanced chat with selected BBB users and will offer the result to the BBB developer and user community.

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Betrusted software — A minimalist and secure OS for embedded communication devices

The Betrusted software project utilizes the strongly typed Rust programming language to build the first applications and libraries for the open hardware Betrusted.io project. Betrusted is pioneering a new class of open hardware communications device, with a grant by NGI Zero. The project will set up a virtual environment for betrusted (e.g. QEMU / RISC-V) in order to develop and test software as close to target as possible and unlock community collaboration and contributions. The second main task in the project is to write a Matrix protocol command line client in order to analyze the memory characteristics in the highly constrained betrusted environment. The additional time is to be allocated to development support for the Bestrusted OS, develop glue layers and verify necessary interfaces for applications, provide unit/integration tests and develop (test) applications for it.

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Blink Qt Messaging — Add modern encryption to SIP softphone

Blink is a mature open source real-time communication application that can be used on different operating systems, based on the IETF SIP standard. It offers audio, video, instant messaging and desktop sharing. This project will extend its capability to support end-to-end asynchronous messaging and end-to-end encryption that works both online (OTR) and offline (OpenPGP). Additional features to be developed include end-to-end delivery and read notifications, and a searchable history database.

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Blink RELOAD — Secure P2P real-time communications with RELOAD

REsource LOcation And Discovery specification (RELOAD) is a standard produced by the IETF standard to (as the name indicates) describe how people can search within a local network to discover other people and devices they can then exchange video and voice calls with, send messages etc. Why make every discovery depend on the availability of a global DNS system, if you are actually near each other...

Blink is a mature open source real-time communication application that can be used on different operating systems, based on the IETF SIP standard. It offers audio, video, instant messaging and desktop sharing. Blink RELOAD aims to implement RELOAD (RFC 7904) , which describes a peer-to-peer network that allows participants to discover each other and to communicate using the IETF SIP protocol. This offers an alternative discovery mechanism, one that does not rely on server infrastructure, in order to allow participants to connect with each other and communicate. In addition, the RELOAD specification describes means by which participants can store, publish and share information, in a way that is secure and fully under the control of the user, without a third party controlling the sharing process or the information being shared.

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Blink for Windows — Modern cross-platform SIP client

Blink is a mature open source real-time communication application that can be used on different operating systems, based on the IETF SIP standard. It offers audio, video, instant messaging and desktop sharing. It supports end-to-end asynchronous messaging and end-to-end encryption which works both online (OTR) and offline (OpenPGP).

Within the scope of the effort, the team will continue the migration to a more modern toolkit based on Qt6, and add support for the still widely used Microsoft Windows platform that currently lacks a high quality, standards compliant FOSS softphone.

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BlockNote — An modern, open source Block-based editor

blocknotejs.org is an open-source block-based rich text editor. BlockNote makes it easier for developers to add user-friendly, modern and collaborative (or "multiplayer") text-editing capabilities to their applications.

Currently, adding a high-quality document editor to applications often requires deep expertise that is out of reach for many individuals or organizations. BlockNote aims to bridge this gap by offering an open source editor that’s easy-to-adopt for developers, comes with a modern and polished UX, and is block-based. This makes it easier to create structured documents and to programmatically extend the editor and document.

Enabling developers to add document authoring capabilities to their software can increase data sovereignty by reducing dependence on a limited range of SaaS applications for document authoring and management.

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bluetuith — Bluetooth connection/device manager for the terminal

bluetuith is a lightweight Text User Interface (TUI) based Bluetooth manager for the terminal, which allows users to manage a multitude of different Bluetooth based functions, like pairing, connection, file transfers, handling audio playback and networking and so on seamlessly via an easy-to-use interface. The project aims to extend support to as many other platforms as possible, to achieve multiplatform support, and provide users with a familiar interface to control Bluetooth across different platforms. The project also aims to solve the issue of communication and user-friendliness of platform specific Bluetooth stacks, by creating daemons/services native to that platform, and lightly wrapping native APIs and exposing a standard set of APIs that will allow any client to be built cross-platform and to connect and control Bluetooth (Classic especially) in a much more efficient and uniform manner.

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Bonfire Search & Discovery — Improving search and discoverability in the Fediverse

Bonfire is a modular ecosystem for federated networks. The project creates interoperable toolkits that people can use to easily build their own apps to meet their specific needs. Users are then free to interact with multiple people and groups using these apps hosted on their own device, regardless of what federated software these other people use. Federated topics within the Bonfire ecosystem can consist of a hashtag, a category in a taxonomy, a location, etc. This enables users to find a topic they are interested in, see everything that was tagged with that (publicly or in their network), and follow it to receive any new tagged content. This will be interoperable with existing fediverse apps like Mastodon without requiring extra development on their end, and will create a decentralised graph of topics that can help relevant information flow from instance to instance.

All content on a Bonfire instance (including remote content coming in via follows or federated topics) will also be aggregated in a local search index with which the user can search their own data, information from people or groups they follow, as well as content from topics or locations they are interested in from around the fediverse. This search will happen locally on their device (which is a plus for privacy), with results appearing instantly while typing a query, and being able to filter the results (e.g., by object or activity type, hashtags, topics, or language). Every line of Bonfire’s code is available to be used or forked, in a collection of libraries that can be assembled and re-assembled to create all kinds of full-featured apps. One example is Bonfire's mutual aid extension where users can post and search for requests and offers across different instances according to topic and/or geographical location.

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Bonfire federated groups — Create, join and manage federated groups across instances

Bonfire is an extensible open source federated community platform, that empowers groups to easily configure their spaces from the ground up, according to a variety of needs and visions.

Bonfire envisions a web of independent but interconnected social networks (using a wide definition, since we consider the social components of activities in the economic, educational, and political spheres as well) - able to speak and transfer information among each other, according to their own boundaries and preferences.

The scope of this project is to give users the tools to create, join and manage federated groups across instances, with their own set of rules and customisable governance. Federated groups on Bonfire will lever the flexible foundation we've recently released: circles and boundaries. Using those building blocks we will ensure that groups have the possibility to define a fine grained set of roles and permissions, with the possibility for each group to define a multitude of roles that fit with how they want to manage membership and participation, and distribute power and responsibility.

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Bonfire Framework — Elixir-based ActivityPub implementation and library with groups and RBAC

Bonfire is an open-source, federated social networking toolkit, designed to empower communities to build custom and federated social networks. The current focus of our project is to improve the stability, performance, and documentation of our codebase, honing a solid framework that enhances user experience and encourages wider adoption. We aim to catch bugs, enhance platform performance, and enrich the developer experience by crafting comprehensive tutorials and documentation. A key aspect of our project involves extending our ActivityPub Library, which underpins the federated nature of Bonfire, and contributing back to the ActivityPub ecosystem by releasing v1.0 of our open-source ActivityPub library. The expected outcomes include a robust, efficient Bonfire framework to be used in production, a surge in developer and community adoption, and contributions to standardize federation protocols.

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Briar — A secure messaging app with offline capabilities

Briar is a secure messaging app designed for activists, journalists and civil society groups. Instead of using a central server, encrypted messages are synchronized directly between the users' devices, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance. This project will enable users of Briar to delete their private messages. Giving users control of what information their devices retain will allow them to practice defence in depth, managing their exposure if their devices are lost or compromised.

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Briar Desktop — E2EE online and offline messaging and discussion

Briar Desktop is a client for the peer to peer messenger Briar that runs on the typical desktop operating systems Windows, macOS and Linux. With the emergence of multiple Linux-based operating systems for phones, it will also become possible to adapt it to run on operating systems such as Manjaro, PureOS and postmarketOS. A basic version of Briar Desktop has just been implemented and released to the public, but its features are still limited to one-to-one communication. The main goal of this project is to implement the additional group-oriented modes of communication that Briar's Android client supports: groups, forums and blogs. While the first iteration of development focused on Linux, publishing for macOS and Windows are going to be stabilized from experimental to production stage within this project. To keep up with the development of the Android client, support for the upcoming Mailbox feature is also going to be implemented.

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Castopod — Podcasting in the fediverse

Castopod is an open-source podcast hosting solution for everyone, that can connect to the Fediverse through the W3C ActivityPub standard (Pixelfed, Mastodon, Pleroma…). Castopod is user friendly, and allows for easy discovery everywhere. Whether you are a beginner, an amateur or a professional, you will get everything you need: you can create, upload, publish, manage server subscriptions (WebSub embedded server). You can allow users to listen to your podcast directly, but just as easily connect to commercial directories (Apple, Google, Spotify…).

Take back control: interact with your audience on your platform (like, share, comment), the social network IS the podcast. In addition to supporting W3C ActivityPub, you can also export to proprietary social networks (Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Facebook). Castopod is easily hosted on any PHP/MySQL server: unzip it and you and other podcasters are ready to broadcast professionally.

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Castopod Mobile — Userfriendly mobile podcasting application

Castopod Mobile is a free and open-source mobile podcast player application (GPL v3). It is intended to be installed on your mobile phone (iOS, Google Android, /e/…). You can install it from F-Droid, from your usual app store or you may compile it yourself for your own needs. Castopod Mobile is a two-in-one application: a podcast player and a Fediverse client. It serves several purposes: to provide a mobile application that takes advantages of ActivityPub features for podcasts (the ones that Castopod Server provides for instance). Secondly, to reduce the complexity of the Fediverse ecosystem during onboarding: account creation currently prevents many users into joining the Fediverse because it is difficult to guess where to begin. And thirdly: to provide a podcast application template for communities who want to build and manage their ecosystem from beginning (with your own private Castopod Server) to end (with your own Castopod Mobile based application).

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Castopod Plugins — Add plugins to the Castopod podcast server

Castopod Plugins is a new modular framework which will allow anyone to develop their own plugins for the Castopod podcast hosting platform. Adding 3rd party plugins bring many advantages to Castopod, most notably a clean and versioned way to add custom features. This allows developers and users to make different tradeoffs by implementing and deploying features essential to them, whether or not these are acceptable as part of the core platform. It also helps with compliance at a global scale, without unnecessary censorship: some extensions will be legal to deploy in some jurisdictions but might be problematic in others. By further slimming down the core of Castopod server, modularity will improve overall code security. The project will allow the whole community to be an active part of future development, and will help better cater to the widely differing needs that podcasters have.

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Discover and move your coins by yourself — A safe way to explore and work with cryptocurrency forks

The numerous technologies behind cryptocurrencies are probably the most difficult to understand compared to any other networks, even for technical experts - and especially bitcoin based networks. Most users, even those familiar with the technology for years, have to rely on wallets or run/sync full nodes. Empirically we can see that they usually get lost at a certain point of time, especially when said wallets dictate the use of new "features", like bip39 and alike, multisig, segwit and bech32. Most users don't understand where their coins are and on what addresses, what is the format of these addresses and what are their seeds and what they need to unlock their coins. This situation pushes users to give their private keys to dubious services, resulting to the loss of all of their coins. The alternative is to let exchanges manage their coins, which removes their agency and puts them at risk. The goal of this project is to correct this situation allowing people to simply discover where are their coins and what are their addresses, whatever features are used. It will allow them to discover their addresses from one coin to another, rediscover their seed if they lost a part, sign/verify addresses ownership, discover public keys from private keys and create their hierarchical deterministic addresses. In fact, all the tools needed to discover and check what is related to their coins - and this for any bitcoin based network, in addition it allows them to create their transactions by themselves and send them to the networks, or just check them. The tool is a standalone secure open source webapp inside browsers that must be used offline, this is a browserification of a nodejs module that can be also used or modified for those that have the technical knowledge.

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Commune — User-friendly persistent chat/voice rooms

Commune is an open source alternative to Discord, specifically designed for public-by-default communities. Based on Matrix and built as a Synapse server extension combined with a custom client, Commune inverts a lot of Matrix norms: (1) Web-readable channels and threads that are easily shared as links and tended to in a digital garden; (2) shared interest discoverability across spaces via federated webrings; (3) opt-in encryption for ease of onboarding.

The mission of Commune is to act as an accessibility layer on top of the Matrix protocol as a backbone for online community building. Commune meets users where they are by integrating tightly with Discord through two-way syncing and social logins (OAuth), allowing for incremental adoption as opposed to competing directly with the networking effects of incumbents.

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Conversations — A secure mobile messaging client

Conversations is an Android client for the federated, provider independent network of instant messaging servers that use the Extensible messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). It aims to provide a feature set and a user experience that is on par with other well known messaging services. While Conversations is capable of sending end-to-end encrypted text messages, images, short videos and voice messages it currently lacks the ability to make voice and video calls. This project is about adding A/V call capabilities to Conversations in a manner that is compatible to other XMPP clients. To achieve compatibility Conversations will implement the Jingle protocol extensions including XEP 0353 (Jingle Message Initiation) for a smooth user experience across multiple devices.

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Conversations 3.0 — Secure and standards-compliant XMPP client for Android

Conversations – a popular XMPP instant messaging client for Android – has been around since 2014. Since then not only have Android development best practices changed but also user requirements on the app have shifted dramatically. Features like emoji reactions, quotations (references), edit history or simply multiple images per message weren’t on the developers mind in 2014 and are difficult or impossible to implement with the current software architecture. Conversations 3.0 is an architecture overhaul that adapts Conversations to a modern Android development style (namely Android Jetpack) and also redesigns the database to accommodate the aforementioned features. The well-functioning XMPP layer will remain intact during this refactoring in order to keep all existing features and not re-introduce bugs that have been fixed ages ago.

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Privacy Infrastructure for Corteza Federations — Allow users to locate and browse their private data wherever

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ArtistHub — Allow creative artists to gain visibility and build reputation on the web

The Artist Hub is a progressive web app developed by The Creative Passport MTU, that allows users - Music makers - to connect different data sources and display their feeds all in the same global wall arranged in chronological order. Music makers will be able to create a custom fan page on a self-hostable server where all their music and related content can be placed and shared with their fans.

The underlying architecture for subscribing to and receiving posts/updates from connected services will be built using ActivityPub. The idea behind this architecture is a free and open-source way for music makers to share their content without needing to post to a number of different websites and social media and for fans to have the freedom to choose their platform of choice for engaging with that content.

We will use ActivityPub to aggregate data from a number of platforms. This will enable us to offer support for video (using PeerTube), audio (using Funkwhale), images (using PixelFed) and text (using Mastodon).

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Cross-root ARIA — Standardisation for Accessibility when using Shadow DOM

ARIA is a technology used by developers to add accessibility attributes to web-based user interfaces. Web Components are a set of tools which allow developers to create components which can be used in a framework-independent way across different websites. Due to the way Web Components provide encapsulation, using Shadow DOM, some parts of ARIA have become incompatible with Web Components. This project will contribute to ongoing efforts to provide web developers with mechanisms to make these technologies work together. Our goal is to contribute to the relevant specifications, as well as implementing and shipping the proposed solution in one additional browser.

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Reinstatement of crypto.signText() — Cryptographic signatures brought back to the browser

Since the 1990s Netscape and Firefox supported the ability to sign an arbitrary piece of text with a digital certificate, and have that signature returned to the webserver. The texts being signed have historically ranged from transaction records, financial declarations, and court documents. This project implements a set of Native Browser Web Extensions that bring the digital signing of text to all modern browsers that support the NMBE standard. The process of choosing the certificates and generating the signatures is performed outside of the browser, using APIs native to each operating system. Web pages communicate with the extensions using the Javascript crypto.signText() function, and the signed documents are returned packaged as a PKCS7 response. The project aims to make digital signing accessible, while being browser agnostic.

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CryptPad — Real-time collaboration with client-side encryption

Cryptpad is a secure and encrypted open source collaboration platform. The CryptPad teams project will fund the development of a number of group-focused features to Cryptpad. We'll improve our current implementation of encrypted shared folders to display the permissions possessed by team members for different documents. The capacity to remove a member from a group is difficult in an encrypted system, as the knowledge of encryption keys cannot be taken away once given. We'll implement key-rotation protocols, and develop encrypted mailboxes to facilitate the delivery of new keys to authorized members. The same mailbox system will enable the development of notifications, allowing users to request additional permissions for documents, to invite new members to a group or session, or to inform friends that a document has been updated. Teams organize in many ways, and with the technical components available we'll focus on interfaces which support different modes of coordination, whether the team is hierarchical or self-organizing. Overall, we hope to make it so that the most intuitive way to collaborate is also the most secure.

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CryptPad Auth — Implement external identity mechanisms to E2EE collaborative editor

CryptPad is a real-time collaboration environment that encrypts all user-generated content in users' browsers, making it illegible to the host of the service. In this project we'll develop optional extensions to the platform to provide additional layers of protection for such data by pursuing two broad strategies in parallel. For the first, we'll take a top-down approach to security through integration with identity provider services like LDAP or SSO, allowing organizations to apply centrally managed access control policies. For the second, more bottom-up approach, we'll offer tighter control of user accounts through various secondary authentication methods like app-based TOTP or email "magic-links". These new features will provide more choices for the protection of data stored in CryptPad, while also making the platform more approachable for conventional organizations by leveraging their existing points of trusted infrastructure.

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CryptPad for communities — Collaborative web editor with client-side encryption

CryptPad is a secure and encrypted open-source collaboration platform, that allows people to work together online on documents, spreadsheets and other types of documents. The amazing thing is that while the participants can work with these web applications as they would with any normal tool, the server has no way of telling what it is they are working on. Everything is encrypted on the device of the user, before it is sent to the server. The "CryptPad for communities" project will improve the experience of users adopting the platform for community management tasks. We'll spend time solving the issues most commonly reported by our users as obstacles to their broader adoption of the platform as an alternative to proprietary services. Document review is as important to many as collaborative editing, so we'll implement comment workflows that integrate our recently introduced social features into our text editors. Our Kanban and spreadsheet apps will both receive some crucial updates to better facilitate project management tasks without compromising on privacy. We'll develop extra access control features based on users' public keys for documents that require stricter protection than is currently offered. Those hosting their own CryptPad instance will benefit from new functionality for their admin panel as well as detailed documentation to make server management more accessible. Finally, we'll implement extra controls permitting admins to limit access to their instance by requiring invites for registration. Altogether we hope these tools will allow communities more determination when it comes to their data, their processes, and their ability to work together productively.

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Redash — Predictive text entry without a keyboard

Dasher is an alternative text entry system that searches for suggestions without the discrete input through a keyboard. The software is invaluable to people with disabilities who use it to type or speak and who can’t control a regular physical or on-screen keyboard. Dasher is instead driven by continuous gesture using a dynamic predictive display, a concept originally developed by the University of Cambridge Inference group.

The dasher project aims to help all individuals with disabilities who use similar assistive technology by developing a modular word and letter prediction engine that is allows for a range of language models to be used - and new ones be trialed out, including potentially integration with context sensitive search prediction provided by search engine providers. The new dasher will provide a fresh codebase matching the features that current users require - whilst improving on the user experience for new users. Thanks to a permissive open source software license anyone will be able to develop additional innovations on top of dasher, including commercial entities that produce bespoke systems. This will help increase the ability for employers to hire people that depend on this type of input mechanisms.

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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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DeltaBot — Social discovery over mail-based chat

Why make humans be the only ones to search new content that is relevant to you, if bots can be made to do the same on your behalf? The DeltaBot project will research and develop decentralized, e2e-encrypting and socially trustworthy bots for Delta Chat (https://delta.chat). Bots will bridge with messaging platforms like IRC and Matrix, offer media archiving for its users and provide ActivityPub and RSS/Atom integration to allow users to discover new content. Our project is not only to provide well tested and documented Chat Bots in Python but also help others to write and deploy their own custom bots. Bots will perform e2e-encryption by default and we'll explore seamless ways to resist active MITM attacks.

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DeltaTouch — DeltaChat on UBports mobile phones

DeltaTouch is a Delta Chat compatible messenger app for the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform. In this project we will enhance Webxdc support, the last big feature missing compared to the mainline Delta Chat apps. Webxdc apps are small, portable web apps that are running inside a host application. At the moment, all official Delta Chat clients and Cheogram, an XMPP-based messenger, are able to act as a host for Webxdc apps. The DeltaTouch Webxdc implementation aims to support the current and also upcoming Webxdc specifications, allowing all existing Webxdc apps to function well with DeltaTouch.

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Dino — User-friendly and secure instant messaging

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 will add encrypted audio/video calling functionality between two or more parties. The implementation will rely on existing standards to interoperate with other XMPP applications.

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Dokieli — Decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions

Dokieli empowers users with full control and ownership of their content through self-publishing capabilities. As a decentralised authoring, annotation, and notification tool, dokieli enables users to create and share human-readable and machine-processable content.

Users can author and annotate a wide range of creative works, including articles, reviews, technical specifications, research and academic works, resumes, journals, and slideshows. They can link significant units of information from various open sources, store their content using their preferred storage systems, and share it with their contacts.

Dokieli is committed to leveraging open internet and web standards to ensure interoperability and universal access. Content produced by dokieli is decoupled from the application, allowing users the autonomy to switch to any other standards-compliant application and storage system.

The project's goal is to make it usable and accessible for all. To this end, we will replace several key libraries; improve the UI; expand test coverage (including accessibility tests); increase support for offline use; perform security audits; and expand implementation of web standards, and provide implementation experience feedback to technical standards bodies.

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Draupnir — Moderation bot for Matrix servers

Draupnir is a comprehensive moderation bot for room moderators using Matrix (the open source decentralized instant messaging protocol). Draupnir assists room moderators in managing their community and provides continuous protection from spam and harmful content. This is done by utilising sharable and interoperable policy lists that allow different communities to work together to combat new threats. Draupnir also provides a plugin system that can adapt Draupnir to the different needs of every community. Our ongoing efforts to further modularise Draupnir's code base in the interests of maintainability should provide groundwork for future Trust & Safety related projects in the Matrix ecosystem.

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EDeA — Repeatable, automated measurement data capture

EDeA is a set of tools and a web portal which makes it easier for people to share and collaborate on Open Hardware sub-circuits. The scope of this project is to further improve on the collaboration aspect of the portal and to build the EDeA Measurement Server. The EDeA Measurement Server is a tool for automated scientific data capture (not only) for sub-circuits and a library which enables test & measurement as code. This makes it possible to analyze, reason about and share open hardware in a repeatable and consistent manner.

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Elm Matrix SDK — Better moderation for Matrix rooms and servers

The Elm Matrix SDK project is an initiative within the Matrix protocol ecosystem, designed to streamline the functionality of Matrix bots into intuitive applications. The project, currently in its prototype stage, aims to enhance the accessibility of Matrix moderation tools, catering to users of varying expertise levels. The project focuses on developing lightweight client applications with specific use cases, ensuring a seamless and adaptable user experience.

Matrix is an overlay protocol used mostly for instant messaging and audiovisual calls, but it is branching out into VR/XR and other domains as well. In its evolution, the Elm Matrix SDK intends to create tools that improve the usability and security of moderating individual Matrix rooms and entire servers. Examples include a "suspicious users page" for managing users banned across multiple rooms and a dedicated "war room" to counteract spam attacks. By prioritizing simplicity and effectiveness, the project strives to address social challenges and eliminate barriers to widespread adoption of moderation tools.

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AEAP — Automated e-mail address porting to a new provider

There is no search for email addresses, like there was in the days long gone of the phone book. Once an old contact disappears (e.g. moves jobs, changes provider), even hough you may have exchanged many emails with that person you can not discover which new email address(es) go(es) with that old contact.

The Automated E-mail Address Porting project (AEAP) wants to allows you to find the new email addresses of these existing email contacts. The project will research and develop the porting of an e-mail address to a new provider. We will implement, document, user-test and release a porting mechanism for Delta Chat, a leading end-to-end encryption mail client. Users can decide they want to use a new provider by entering credentials for a new e-mail address. The outcome of the AEAP project will be Delta Chat Desktop, Android and iOS releases to all app stores, providing seamless porting of e-mail addresses. Changing an e-mail provider will not depend on the consent of the existing one. GMail and various other "free e-mail" provider lock-in strategies will be weakened, also through the e2e-encryption that our AEAP effort spearheads.

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Email <=> XMPP gateway — Bridge instant messaging with email

Libervia is a versatile communication ecosystem offering features like instant messaging, blogging, event planning, photo albums, file sharing, audio/video calls, and more. It can additionally function as an XMPP component, providing server-side features. This initiative focuses on creating an Email <=> XMPP gateway, enhancing file management for attachments, transforming mailing list threads into interactive, forum-style discussions with modern elements such as tags and mentions, and ensuring support for end-to-end encryption. The Libervia interface will also see improvements for a better user experience, with clear indicators of message origins and security status. This gateway is a move toward unifying various communication methods within single clients, following Libervia's philosophy as seen with its ActivityPub <=> XMPP gateway and is in harmony with other projects like Slidge, Spectrum 2, or Biboumi. With the introduction of this component, not only will Libervia's functionality be elevated, but it will also equip other XMPP ecosystem projects with the ability to connect their users with the email world, fostering deeper integration of XMPP across the spectrum of communication tools.

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Encoding for Robust Immutable Storage (ERIS) — Encrypted and content-addressable data blocks

The Encoding for Robust Immutable Storage (ERIS) is an encoding of content into a set of uniformly sized, encrypted and content-addressed blocks as well as a short identifier (a URN). The content can be reassembled from the encrypted blocks only with this identifier (the read capability). ERIS is a form of content-addressing. The identifier of some encoded content depends on the content itself and is independent of the physical location of where the content is stored (unlike content addressed by URLs). This enables content to be replicated and cached, making systems relying on the content more robust.

Unlike other forms of content-addressing (e.g. IPFS), ERIS encrypts content into uniformly sized blocks for storage and transport. This allows peers without access to the read capability to transport and cache content without being able to read the content. ERIS is defined independent of any specific protocol or application and decouples content from transport and storage layers.

The project will release version 1.0.0 after handling feedback from security audit, provide implementations in popular languages to facilitate wider usage (e.g. C library, JS library on NPM), perform a number of core integrations into various transport and storage layers (e.g. GNUNet, HTTP, CoAP, S3), and deliver Block Storage Management (quotas, garbage collection and synchronization for caching peers).

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Thunderbird - native EteSync integration — Add encrypted sync to Thunderbird

EteSync is a secure, end-to-end encrypted and privacy respecting sync solution for contacts, calendars and tasks. It protects user data by encrypting it and decrypting it on the end user device, meaning that the user does not have to trust the service provider. Etesync is being developed with support of NGI Zero. This project is adding native sync support for EteSync to the popular Thunderbird mail client (via the existing TbSync which is about to be integrated into Thunderbird) in order to drastically lower the entry threshold. This will allow even non skilled users to fully protect their data with end-to-end encryption. Setup will just involve (auto-)installing an add-on and entering credentials, and selecting which resources should be synchronized.

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Ethersync — Real-time co-editing of local text files

Ethersync aims to enable real-time collaborative editing of local text files. Similar to Etherpads, it facilitates multiple users to work on content simultaneously, enabling applications such as shared notes or pair programming. However, following a "local-first" approach, all files reside on the users' computers, allowing them to use their familiar editors and workflows, and to retain user control. This design enables a kind of collaboration that is simple and direct, stable and flexible, and preserves privacy. Ethersync will be a supplement to tools that track larger changes on text files, like Git, and can be used in combination with it. The project will leverage CRDTs, and consists of a server component, a cross-platform local synchronization daemon, and editor plugins.

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EventFahrplan — Conference schedule app with strong offline capabilities

EventFahrplan is a privacy-friendly app for attending conferences and events running on Android devices. The development of the project happens continuously by staying up-to-date with new technologies and Android versions, adding useful features and fixing bugs. Current challenges are the migration to Compose UI, architectural refactoring, Kotlin coroutines, accessibility improvements, translation management, behavior changes with Android 13, interface changes to address large devices - and many other topics. This project helps to sustain the development of the app and to work on a selection of these topics.

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Exter — Proxy-based external browser extensions

Exter is a web based plugin platform which allows addons to alter websites behavior/style/functionality. Instead of trusting the browsers' plugin ecosystem, let's modify the websites before browsers receive them! The goal of this project is to provide a stable and free website-extension-platform to allow future proof and flexible addon development.

As a web application, Exter opens URLs, rewrites the static content and injects client scripts to wrap default javascript functions, applies addons, then sends the sanitized/modified website to the browser. This way we have the ability to write plugins that can intercept/modify not only HTTP requests, but even client side functionalities, such as sanitizing 3rd party content or appending new DOM elements to the website or altering cookie handling from javascript and much more.

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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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FairSync — Simplify aggregation and discovery of places and events

How can we make it possible to search across different maps and lists of events maintained by different organisations? By connecting them, of course! FairSync develops and collects best practices to synchronize maps and events and to federate messengers and identities active in the global movement for sustainability. System integrators are faced with fast evolving APIs and protocols when they try to discover and connect systems and make search more easy.

We will work on master-master replication frameworks of metadata enriched data sets and test with platform providers for sustainability affairs. One approach is the "lazy master scheme": a common update propagation strategy where changes on a primary copy are first committed at the master node, afterwards the secondary copy is updated in a separate transaction at slave nodes.

We will try to advance such immediate update propagation in this project using protocols such as ActivityPub or the InCommon API. Federation of identities will be managed with SAML or oAuth2 protocols with fairlogin as a common identity provider.

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Federated Timesheets — Interoperable machine-readable time tracking

This project brings together developers from WikiSuite, m-ld.io, Muze and Ponder Source in a collaboration to deliberately research how federated machine-readable data can work between independent software projects on the user-operated internet. We want to showcase how our vision of Federated Bookkeeping can make internet users "connected but sovereign".

Each project’s timesheet system that tracks billable hours will be extended with time tracker apps (locally or on a self-hosted server) to expose machine-readable timesheet data through a query endpoint (reader pull) or through a webhook (writer push).

Furthermore a W3C interest group “federated timesheets” was started that will contain and maintain a repository of time tracker schemas and extend this continuously in an orderly fashion to enable developers to import recipients’ schemas as well as add their own to the repository.

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FediMod FIRES — Tooling for Fediverse moderation

FediMod is building a set of tools to help assist in the moderation of fediverse servers, thereby reducing the need for each fediverse software to reimplement moderation tooling from scratch.

FediMod FIRES (Fediverse Intelligence, Recommendations & Replication Endpoint Server) is a protocol for sharing moderation recommendations and advisories. It introduces two key ideas to the Fediverse, one being a firewall based approach to federation management, the second being that moderation decisions should be labelled using common vocabularies.

The current project aims to create a reference server implementation, along with a conformance test suite that can be run by anyone implementing the FIRES protocol. We also intend to contribute features to existing fediverse software to enable the usage of these tools.

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fediverse.space — Find your way in the Fediverse

Fediverse.space is a tool for understanding decentralized social networks, and searching through them. The fediverse, or federated universe, is the set of social media servers, hosted by individuals across the globe, forming a libre and more democratic alternative to traditional social media. When displaying these servers in an intuitive visualization, clusters quickly emerge. For instance, servers with the same primary language will be close to each other. There are more subtle groupings, too: topics of discussion, types of users (serious vs. ironic), and political leanings all play a role. fediverse.space aims to be the best tool for understanding and discovering communities on this emerging social network.

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Fediverse Test Framework — Test bench for ActivityPub implementations

The Fediverse consists of individual servers, possibly running different software, that talk to each other. One of the challenges in developing for the Fediverse is to stay interoperable with all the different deployed software. As the message format standard, ActivityStreams, is extensible through JSON-LD, judging how a message is parsed, can be a hard task.

By using ideas from automated testing, we provide an application that determines a baseline how messages are processed and rendered. The process being simply: run end to end tests and record their result. From the test results a webpage is generated that provides developers the information how a message is rendered in different applications. We aim to make the framework extensible so new applications can be included.

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Fidus Writer — Real-time collaborative web-based online editor for academia

Fidus Writer is an open-source online editor that enables real-time collaboration among academic researchers. It supports exporting individual documents to various standard formats, but it lacks the ability to import and export document collections (books) to some of the most widely used formats, such as DOCX, ODT and JATS XML. This project aims to enhance the functionality and usability of Fidus Writer by adding import and export function for books (including tracked changes), as well as a generic pandoc export for documents, using the existing code base and infrastructure. This will allow Fidus Writer to reach a broader audience and increase its adoption in the academic community.

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Enhancing Firefox for Linux on Mobile — Mobile native feature-complete Firefox

Enhancing Firefox for Linux on Mobile aims to offer a privacy respecting alternative to Chromium-based browsers by improving the user experience (UX) of Firefox on small form factor devices (mobile, tablet) running Linux. We will update the Firefox codebase, primarily the user interface (UI) and the rendering engine. Additionally, we will collaborate with Mozilla to ensure that our modifications are included in Firefox to reduce the maintenance burden by sharing a common codebase across the different projects. As a side effect, our modifications will benefit all Firefox Desktop users including Windows when the Firefox application window is not maximized.

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Flarum — Add federation and much more to the extensible forum software Flarum.

Flarum is a technically advanced, open and extensible discussion platform. Flarum aims to bring people interaction to a new level by how it is designed and engineered. Flarum's key features include a responsive user interface that works seamlessly across all devices, a powerful and flexible extension system that allows users to customize the forum to their specific needs, and a robust set of moderation tools to keep the forum safe and spam-free. Within this project Flarum will add among others support for the W3C ActivityPub standard, to make content accessible in a federated way.

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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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ForgeFed — Federation for software collaboration tools

When you are searching for new software to use, you will have to visit many different software forges - like Gitlab, Codeberg or Sourcehut. There isn't really a tool to search for anything across the boundaries of these different software forges.

ForgeFed aims to define a vocabulary and a protocol for decentralized communication and federation of websites used for hosting and collaboration on version control repositories, issue tracking and project management. Typical such websites are code forges such as GitLab and Gitea instances (and centralized services like github), but the idea also applies to applications like collaborative civic planning, publishing of creative writing (such as prose and poetry) and more. ForgeFed is to be designed as an extension of ActivityPub, and web apps implementing it would be joining the Fediverse. The world of repo and project hosting would switch from the centralized model of github (and the lonely disconnected websites running GitLab or Gitea etc.) into a network of federating websites, creating a global decentralized community. The project will publish a set of specifications and guides for implementing the federation protocol, and to work with existing projects and communities to refine and finalize the specifications and implement ForgeFed federation.

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ForgeFed — Federating software forges with ActivityPub

The platforms that software developers use for hosting and collaborating on their projects, known as software forges, are centralized systems. And some of the most popular forge websites run proprietary software and controlled by a single company. The values, methods, policies and interfaces of the tools we use with our software projects often don't align with our values and needs, but despite having coding skills, we're powerless to change the situation. ForgeFed aims to put the power back into the hands of the Free Software community, and to allow for systems that are truly trustworthy and support inclusion, freedom, participation, censorship resistance and alignment with needs, by turning software forges into a decentralized network. ForgeFed is a protocol and vocabulary for federation of servers and services related to the Software Development Lifecycle, and an attempt to implement federation into existing free-software forges. ForgeFed has been based on the ActivityPub protocol, which is widely adopted on the Fediverse, and is augmenting it with Object Capabilities, an essential component for distributed secure flexible authorization of collaborative resource access.

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Fractal — Native client for the Matrix protocol

Fractal is an Open Source (GPLv3) Matrix client written in Rust. It uses the GTK graphical interface toolkit and is part of the GNOME project. It was created with a big focus on usability and interface design. The objective of this project is to add end-to-end encryption support to Fractal. Fractal has two major parts: A backend part, which communicates with the Matrix server, and a part that contains the GUI and data handling. This will be achieved by first replacing the current backend with the matrix-rust-sdk that was created recently and has several advantages to the current backend, including an abstraction for handling end-to-end encryption for Matrix. Once the backend pieces are in place, Fractal's UI needs to be updated to allow users to actually use end-to-end encryption, which involves a number of non-trivial new user flows (e.g. device verification, cross-signing, key backup).

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Native IFC for FreeCAD — ISO-compliant Building Information Modeling in FreeCAD

IFC, or Industry Foundation Classes, is finally providing a true, gold, open, universal data format for BIM (Building Information Modeling), the CAD paradigm nowadays widely adopted by the architecture, civil engineering and construction (AEC) industry. The IFC format is open-source, maintained by a consortium, open and text-based, and also an ISO standard. FreeCAD, a popular open-source 3D modeling application, has been supporting the IFC format for years already. This project goes one step further, and turns IFC a default file format of FreeCAD. Without the translation layer needed to import and export IFC files, FreeCAD becomes a true, native IFC editor, with a wealth of advantages, such as having minimal, identifiable and version-control-friendly change sets, access to just any piece of IFC data, etc.

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Funkwhale — ActivityPub-driven audio streaming and sharing

Funkwhale is a free, decentralized and open-source audio streaming and sharing platform, built on top of the ActivityPub protocol. It enables users to create communities of interest around music and audio content in general, listen to their private music library or distribute their own productions on the network. Each Funkwhale pod, or server, can communicate with other pods to exchange audio content, metadata or for user interactions. In this project, Funkwhale will improve the publication experience for creators, release its first stable version, improve content discovery inside the platform through better sharing and search mechanisms. We will also continue research and development for Retribute, a community wealth sharing platform meant to support creators on Funkwhale or any other platform.

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Funkwhale — ActivityPub-driven audio streaming and sharing

Funkwhale is a federated platform that provides tools for managing, publishing, and sharing audio content using the ActivityPub protocol. In this project, we aim to expand our use of ActivityPub and extend our integration with other ActivityPub-powered platforms. We also plan to improve our product offerings by redesigning our flagship web app, adding support for more content types in our API, creating new features that integrate with MusicBrainz, and making our Android offering feature-complete.

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Galene — High quality libre videoconferencing server

Galene is a complete self-hosted videoconferencing system that has been designed to be easy to install and to manage, to preserve the users' privacy, and that uses very moderate server resources. Galene has been continuously used in production to host university lectures and staff meetings since September 2020, as well as to host a number of international conferences during the COVID pandemic. The goal of this project is to improve Galene to make it use state-of-the-art networking and video algorithms, to improve its management features, and to add a number of user-visible features, such as background blur and automatic subtitling.

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Gancio — Shared agenda for local communities that supports Activity Pub

Gancio is a shared agenda for local communities, and was the first one to support Activity Pub. Gancio focuses on cross-cutting collaboration through its decentralized instances that allow to connect communities. This enabling users to easily discover and engage in events in their neighborhood, as well as elsewhere - while avoiding attention-based business models and intrusive advertisements.

The focus of this project are a numberof new features such as implementing HTTP Signatures, moderation and onion routing, as well as improving compatibility with other Fediverse event tools. In addition, the team seeks to establish a common agreed upon event format to make the interaction with such tools more streamlined.

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GNUnet Messenger API — API for decentralized instant messaging using CADET

Communication is one of the most valuable goods, but it requires confidentiality, integrity and availability to trust it. The GNUnet Messenger API implements an encrypted translation layer based on Confidential Ad-hoc Decentralized End-to-End Transport (CADET). Through CADET the API will allow any kind of application to set up a fully decentralized form of secure and private communication between groups of users. The service uses e2e-encryption and does not require any personal information from you to be used.

You are able to send text messages, share files, invite contacts to a group or delete prior messages with a custom delay. Messages and files will both be stored decentralized being only available for others in the group. GNUnet provides the possibility to use this service without relying on the typical internet structures, with a turnkey optional DHT for sharing resources.

Unlike many other messengers out there the GNUnet Messenger service focuses on privacy. You decide who can contact you and who does not. You decide which information gets shared with others and which stays a secret. The whole service and its API is free and open by design to be used by many different applications without trusting any third party.

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GNU social — Modernizing the original FOSS Social Network

GNU social is a free social networking platform, easily self-hostable and highly accessible, that enables both private and public decentralized communications. With NLnet NGI Zero's support, the project is undergoing a change of main focus from microblogging to groups and tags. With this, GNU social will be a space for communities where users can express their passions and explore new ones. Users will be able to immerse themselves in easily filterable content relevant to their interests, and to create and join communities. It's hard to pinpoint an existing alternative service that promotes the same level of functionality in terms of tagging, filtering and connecting with people that share common interests. Especially considering the available degree of accessibility, customization and expansion via plugins.

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GNU Taler — Advanced electronic payment system for privacy-preserving payments

GNU Taler is an advanced electronic payment system for privacy-preserving payments. Unusual for such a system, the entire Taler system is ethical, free/libre software, so there are no dependencies on third parties and no black boxes. Taler can support digital payments in any currency - existing or new, mainstream or private. Unique to the GNU Taler system is that it provides anonymity for customers, while delivering various anti-fraud measures necessary to curb abuse.

If you are a central bank, you can use Taler to provision a CBDC. If you are a regular bank or payment provider, you can use it as a mature digital payment method instead of various proprietary solutions which are opaque and come with many restrictions and high costs. The technology behind Taler fully supports local or community currencies too. Taler was designed to meet all the usual regulations for electronic money issuers, and supports regulations like PCI-DSS and GDPR out of the box. The work done within this grant delivered a key regulatory requirement, an independent audit of the payment service operator (the "exchange"). With the third party security audit of the GNU Taler codebase completed, banks and payment providers can now switch to this new system with confidence. GNU Taler finally brings us a transparent, trustworthy and truly private payment ecosystem that operates independent from vendors.

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Gosling — Generic Onions Services Library Project

One of the internet’s core infrastructural flaws is a lack of anonymity - yet anonymity is a form of privacy that many users would prefer to have. Building products which preserve this user privacy while also being featureful and easy to use is difficult. Part of this difficulty has to do with the fact that developers need to be aware of and actively counter the myriad ways users can be de-anonymised (e.g. fingerprinting, side-channels). This requires knowing many intricate details at all levels of the software stack.Project parent Blueprint for Free Speech's goal is to gradually increase the portion of the internet that offers anonymity. By creating a “generic onions services library” (Gosling), we can help developers create secure and anonymous p2p applications without having to delve too deeply into protocol design or the Tor spec, and to do so with more security assurance.

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GoToSocial — Lightweight ActivityPub social network server

GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, powered by Golang. It complements existing ActivityPub implementations by providing a lightweight, customizable entryway into decentralized social media hosting. GoToSocial places a high value on ease of deployment and maintenance; this means low system requirements, minimal external dependencies, and clear documentation. GoToSocial empowers self-hosting newcomers to deploy small, personalized instances, from which they connect to others across the Fediverse, using low-powered equipment lying around at home. With GoToSocial, you can follow people and have followers, you make posts which people can favourite and reply to and share, and you scroll through posts from people you follow using a timeline. You can write long posts or short posts, or just post images, it's up to you. You can also, of course, block people or otherwise limit interactions that you don't want by posting just to your friends.

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GoToSocial — Improvements to ActivityPub server written in Go

GoToSocial is an ActivityPub-enabled social network server. It complements existing ActivityPub implementations (Mastodon, Akkoma, etc) by providing a lightweight, customizable and privacy focused entry to decentralized social media hosting. GoToSocial places a high value on ease of deployment and maintenance; this means low power requirements, simple set up, and clear documentation. It empowers self-hosting newcomers and experts alike, to easily and reliably deploy decentralized communities at minimal cost. With something as low-power as a small single-board home server, you can deploy a personal instance to follow your favourite Fediverse users, post content and interact with the decentralized community at large, all while retaining ownership of your personal data. For more experienced and privacy conscious users we offer features like allow-list federation mode, to ensure your data is only circulated among those you explicitly permit. In this project, the team will add two factor authentication, improve interoperability, scalability and add some new features like better archiving capabilities.

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Goupile — Secure forms including Clinical Report Forms (eCRF)

Goupile is an open-source form editor designed for data collection in research, particularly in health, replacing traditional paper case report forms (CRF) with electronic versions (eCRF) accessible on computers and mobile devices. Developed by the InterHop.org association, it allows users to easily create customized forms with a programming approach using JavaScript, which enables the creation of highly dynamic and interactive forms with ease. Goupile also provides user management, data recording, synchronization, and options for online and offline data collection. Users can choose to self-host Goupile or utilize a turnkey service on certified HDS servers (Sofware As A Service SAAS), all while benefiting from InterHop's support for the development of new features.

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GPG Lacre project — Best effort encryption of mail flows with OpenPGP

This project is the continuation of the work on providing open source, GnuPG based email encryption for emails at rest. All incoming emails are automatically encrypted with user's public key before they are saved on the server. It is a server side encryption solution while the control of the encryption keys are fully at the hands of the end-user and private keys are never stored on the server.

The scope of the project is to improve on the already existing code, provide easy to use key upload system (standalone as well as Roundcube plugin) and key discoverability. Beside providing a solution that is easy to use we will also provide easy to digest material about encryption, how it works and how to make use of it in situations other the just mailbox encryption. Understanding how encryption works is the key to self-determination and is therefore an important part of the project.

GPG Mailgate will be battle tested on the email infrastructure of Disroot.org (an ethical non-profit service provider).

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Haketilo/Hydrilla — Browser extension for site customisatoin

Internauts today have very little control over their web browsing. Many sites are no longer simple documents meant for reading but complex in-browser applications often equipped with facilities to mistreat their users. Haketilo is a browser extension that aims to change this by giving you complete control over the resources your browser loads for websites, starting with JavaScript. One of its features is the ability to replace sites' javascript programs with user-supplied ones. There is currently no other browser extension that provides users with a secure and fully free browsing experience of this kind. Haketilo works together with its repository, Hydrilla, which it can query for community-developed custom site resources. Both tools are available as free/libre software under GNU licenses. In addition, the Hydrilla API can also be utilized by independent developers who want to increase the amount of user agency in their products. For greater website compatibility, Haketilo will work alongside other browser extensions that mitigate harmful JS.

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Haphaestus — Lightweight JavaScript-free browser engine written in Haskell

In the pursuit of turning a document publishing system into an application delivery platform modern web browsers have become incredibly complex. Thus frustrating efforts to adapt and modify browsers to people's individual needs, including privacy and accessibility needs. Haphaestus aims to illustrate the potential of a more private JavaScript-free web to provide an optimal experience for any conceivable device, by building upon the dev's previous auditory web browser to prototype one that can conveniently navigate most (but the most popular) sites using a TV remote.

Haphaestus will strive to deliver a working independent web browser requiring minimal TV remote button presses, as well as reusable software components for laying out, rendering, & paginating richtext documents written in a range of alphabets.

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Hubzilla — Federated social networking environment

Hubzilla is one of the most mature stacks within the so called Fediverse, and is able to run different protocols such as ActivitPub, Diaspora and Zot. Hubzilla provides powerful tools for communities and individuals to help organise themselves, while providing a possibility to interact with each other. It is a decentralised identity, communications and permissions framework built, using common webserver technology. The software features many useful apps to enable discussions, event organisation, file sharing etc. with built-in internet-wide access control. With Hubzilla you don't have an account on a server, you own an identity that you can take with you across the network.

With the help of the NGI Zero grant, the new version of the zot protocol (zot6) will be implemented as the primary communication protocol and the UX/UI will be improved to lower the entry barrier for less experienced computer users. And of course you can easily search your Hubzilla server for topics, users, fora and tags.

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Indigenous — Indieweb mobile clients

Indigenous is a collection of native, web and desktop applications which allows you to engage with the Internet as you do on social media sites, but posts it all on your website. Use the built-in reader to read and respond to posts across the internet. Indigenous doesn't track or store any of your information, instead you choose a service you trust or host it yourself. Posts are collected on your website or service which supports W3C Microsub, writing posts uses the W3C Micropub specification. Popular services that support both are Wordpress, Micro.blog and Drupal, with more coming soon.

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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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Inventaire — Wikidata-based social sharing of reading experiences

The Inventaire Project is an effort to move forward on the front of accessing information on resources using libre software powered by open knowledge. This ideal is being materialized in the form of inventaire.io, a libre book sharing webapp, inviting everyone to make the inventory of their physical books, declare what they want to do with it (giving, sharing, selling), as well as who should be able to see it (shared publicly through e.g. ActivityPub, or only visible by your friends and groups).

To power those inventories with structured bibliographic data, inventaire.io is also playing the role of a Wikidata-federated open and contributive bibliographic database, extending wikidata.org data with Wikidata-compatible entities (CC0, shared data schema) tailored to our needs, but ready to be pushed to Wikidata when the data contributor deems it appropriate. This linked open data architecture allows users to build their inventories on a huge open knowledge graph, that we believe will, in time, offer exceptional discovery capabilities. This project addresses many features, such as improved privacy settings, accessibility, creating publisher collections and data federation.

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Inventaire Self-hosted — Self-hosted book inventories that share the wikidata-powered bibliographic database

The Inventaire Association supports and promotes the use of libre/free software and open knowledge to share information on resources. This ideal results in inventaire.io: a libre book sharing webapp, inviting everyone to make the inventory of their physical books, say what they want to do with it (giving, sharing, selling) and who may see it (friends, groups, or everyone). To provide data on books, inventaire.io reuses, extends, and facilitate contribution to wikidata.org. This allows users to build their inventories on top of a huge open multilingual knowledge graph, connected to Wikipedia, national libraries, the fediverse, and many other resources.

As the inventaire software becomes more mature, it is now time to deliver on a promise made years ago: decentralization. Installing and maintaining a self-hosted data-federated inventaire server should soon be as easy as (cyber-)cake! This would allow association libraries, privacy-concerned collectives, or anyone preferring self-hosting, to run their own instance: they would fully control their inventory data ("We have this book"), while still having the possibility to benefit from a mutualized bibliographic database ("This author wrote this book").

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IronCalc — Embeddable spreadsheet engine written in Rust

IronCalc is a versatile open-source spreadsheet engine written in Rust from the ground up, employing modern programming best practices. It can be used from any programming language or from end-user products like Web IronCalc. Around the world, millions of spreadsheets are used for accounting, data analysis, processing, educational purposes, collaboration, sharing, etc. IronCalc aims to be an all-purpose alternative to Excel or Google Sheets, filling an important gap in the democratisation of spreadsheets. Suited for companies, individuals, and schools alike, the project aims to be feature-rich, international, fast, and lightweight.

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it — Radically decentralised version control with CRDTs

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End-To-End Encryption for Jitsi Meet — Proven strong encryption for open source video conferencing

Jitsi Meet is an open-source video conferencing application that uses Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, secure and scalable video conferences. Traditionally, it used hop-by-hop encryption to secure the contents. The drawback of this is of course that the videobridge is able to view the unencrypted contents. With the advent of the WebRTC Insertable Streams API in Chrome it became possible to implement actual end-to-end encryption on top of WebRTC. This project will implement and verify a more complete solution that involve a key management system which establishes public keys, derives encryption keys and changes them depending on the state of the conference.

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JShelter Manifest V3 — Make JShelter compatible with Manifest V3

JShelter is a freely licensed anti-malware Web browser extension that informs and protects people's freedom and privacy through people's regular use of the Web. These programs often go unnoticed, but run on a user's system -- whenever the Web server says to run them. They are typically served to the user as minified JavaScript, and few provide the corresponding human readable source code, or a free license allowing users to lawfully inspect and modify the program. By definition, these programs infringe user freedom. This Free Software Foundation project started in 2020 and is continuously developing. It is currently used by thousands of users around the world as the project gears up to continue protecting users from potential threats from JavaScript, such as fingerprinting and tracking and data collection while migrating to Google's Manifest V3. Manifest V3 will restrict the capabilities of Web extensions -- especially those that are designed to monitor, modify, and compute alongside the conversation your browser has with the Web sites you visit. Because of that, Manifest V3 is a detrimental step back for Internet privacy. With the help of NLNet, JShelter will work to upgrade its functionalities and continue to protect user privacy on the Web, which is even more important after this transition.

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Kaidan — Adding encryption to userfriendly cross-platform 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. In contrast to many other 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 QtQuick. The back- end of Kaidan is entirely written in C++ using Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp.

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Kaidan Auth + portability — Account portability and Client/Server Authentication for the 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.

In contrast to many other 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 QtQuick. The back-end of Kaidan is entirely written in C++ using Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp.

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Kaidan A/V — Secure audio and video calls for Kaidan and QXmpp

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.

In contrast to many other 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 QtQuick. The back-end of Kaidan is entirely written in C++ using Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp. This project aims to add audio/video calls to Kaidan in a standards-compliant manner.

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Kaidan — Encrypted A/V calls, group chat messaging

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.

In contrast to many other 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 QtQuick. The back-end of Kaidan is entirely written in C++ using Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp.

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Karrot — Location-aware community self-organisation

Karrot is a tool to support grassroots community organizing. It is designed to enable community-building and a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of groups. Some of its defining features are the self-assignment of tasks, full transparency of members’ actions and a trust-based role system that avoids all-powerful group admins. Karrot originates in facilitating food-saving and sharing initiatives but developed a wider scope of community support.

Equipped with a better understanding about the diverse ways in which people self-organize and practice commoning, we will further develop the existing roles and permissions system, add features through which groups can run polls and enact graduated sanctions according to their needs.

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Katzen — Meta-data resistant instant messaging over the Katzenpost mixnet

Katzen is a new private instant messaging application built using the Katzenpost mixnet project, which is an overlay network that is able to hide communication patterns of individual users from passive network observers. This means that attackers cannot link sending and receiving of messages on the network with any of the participants. Messages between conversation parties are delivered to and read from message queues operated by the mixnet service operators. The legacy simple design maintains a per client queue and is able to see when a client is receiving a message, how often clients receive messages, and when the client is online and checking for their messages. The purpose of this project is to replace the legacy ephemeral message storage system used by Katzen with a replacement that does not link messages with a specific user or conversation, To do this, clients will include a csprng seed as part of the contact creation process that will be used to generate a deterministic sequence of message identifiers between conversation participants; these identifiers will be used by each client to query the ephemeral storage provider for the next message in the conversation. Because polling the storage service adds latency, and this design must check for new messages from each conversation partner, mechanisms to reduce the number of round trips - such as using SURBs as an asynchronous callback upon message delivery on the storage provider will be explored as a means to build a mixnet 'push' service to decrease the total round trip delay in receiving a new message.

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Katzen Metadata Minimizing Messenger — Privacy preserving instant messaging using a modern mixnet

Katzen is a multi-platform messenger application that works with Katzenpost, a mix network framework for building anonymity-enhancing communication services. Katzen minimizes metadata that could potentially be used to reveal the identities, locations, and relationships of its users. Katzen currently supports one-to-one messages between paired users, while also not revealing who is speaking to whom.

This project aims to improve Katzen by adding group messaging, multimedia file transfers, and voice chat. These features require a new encrypted-at-rest database, additional UI for file transfers and push-to-talk voice messaging, and implementation of group messaging using the multiparty REUNION protocol, which allows group members to discover each other using a shared passphrase.

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Kazarma Release — Bridge between ActivityPub and Matrix protocol

Matrix-Appservice-CommonsPub is a bridge between two decentralized protocols: Matrix and ActivityPub. This allows to exchange private messages between Matrix users and users of different ActivityPub-enabled platforms, like PeerTube, Pixelfed and Mastodon. The bridge comes as an easy-to-deploy, secure and scalable solution. In this project the team works on significantly improvement of interoperability with various ActivityPub-flavours, and extending the feature set - better moderation options, private bridges, internationalisation, etc.

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Kbin — ActivityPub based link sharing and microblogging

Kbin is a decentralized content aggregator and microblogging platform running on the Fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. The initiative aims to promote a free and open internet. The platform is divided into thematic categories called magazines. By default, any user can create their own magazine and automatically become its owner. Then they receive a number of administrative tools that will help them personalize and moderate the magazine, including appointing moderators from among other users. Content from the Fediverse is also cataloged based on groups or tags. A registered user can follow magazines, other users or domains and create his own personalized homepage. There is also the option to block unwanted topics.

Content can be posted on the main page - external links and more relevant articles or on microblog section - aggregating short posts. All content can be additionally categorized and labeled. Great possibilities to search for interesting topics and people easily is something that distinguishes Kbin. Platform is equally suitable for a small personal instance for friends and family, a school or university community, company platform or a general instance with thousands of active users.

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/kbin — Mobile app and feature additions to /kbin

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Keyoxide Mobile — Mobile client for identity magement tool Keyoxide

The Keyoxide Mobile app is an open source keyoxide client for Android that lets you verify and manage decentralized cryptographic identities while being on the go. To verify somenone else's decentralized identity: simply enter their identifier or scan their qr-code to see the verification result generated by the app. With the funding from NLnet, the app will be able to create new Keyoxide profiles and additional features will be added such as iOS support, a design update, being able to save multiple profiles, text encryption/decryption, custom instance support, accessibility features like localization, color themes and contrast.

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Knowledge Graph Portal Generator — Automatically generate custom web interfaces for structured data

The Knowledge Graph Portal Generator is a toolkit designed to create user-friendly web portals for Knowledge Graph (KG) datasets, making data from public SPARQL endpoints accessible to users without expertise in semantic technologies. Built on the LinkedDataHub framework, our solution will feature paginated collections, faceted search, and detailed entity views. It will extract RDF ontologies from datasets, generate content configurations, and use these to extend the default LinkedDataHub into a dataset-specific web application.

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Kiwi IRC — Self-hosted web IRC environment

Kiwi IRC is an open messaging platform that any online organisation or community can use. We do not believe that any community should be locked into a single vendor for their communication tools as this restricts how the community grows and develops - the community itself should dictate how they develop over time. Working with other open source projects in the IRC world, we are expanding the generally available privacy tools and making them usable for mainstream use. This will see tools such as end-to-end encryption and mobile applications being brought to users taking advantage of open messaging, improving the privacy of millions of existing IRC users and pushing for open platforms.

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Improve Email Encryption in KMail — Adopt improvements in Email Encryption in KMail

The goal of this project is to make it more simple for inexperienced users to just use encrypted mails, at the click of a button. Autocrypt is a new method for email encryption, that needs nearly no user interaction. It performs the needed key exchange transparently in the background, and does key management automatically. Encrypted Headers is a protocol to send mail headers in the encrypted mail part. Traditional encryption methods leaked meta-data, which could be used for mass surveillance purposes. The result will be part of the KDEPIM codebase, so you don't have to install anything else than KMail to use these improvements.

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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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lemmur — A Lemmy mobile client

Lemmur is a multi-platform client for Lemmy - a federated link aggregator. It aims to bring the fediverse to the hands of regular people by providing a seamless experience across different instances. Currently lemmur implements the majority of functionalities provided by Lemmy making it competitive with existing social media apps. In this project lemmur will expand to support more Quality of Life features such as live comment updates and notifications with websockets, caching, theming system, and custom feeds. Additionally lemmur will expand its and Lemmy's reach by internationalizing the whole app, creating adaptive UI for different platforms, and creating an onboarding experience that will work as an introduction to both lemmur and the fediverse. Lastly lemmur will continue improving the seamless instance experience reducing the need of changing instances to the minimum.

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Lemmy — ActivityPub for link aggregation

Lemmy is an open-source, easily self-hostable link aggregator that you can use to share and discover interesting new ideas - and discuss them with the world. Its designed to work in the Fediverse, and communicate natively with other ActivityPub services, such as Mastodon, Funkwhale and Peertube.

Lemmy aim to create a decentralized alternative to widely used proprietary services like Reddit. For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to communities on any other server, and have discussions with users registered elsewhere. The front page of popular link aggregators is where many people get their daily news, so Lemmy has the potential to help alter the social media landscape.

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Lemmy Federation — Lemmy Federation and ActivityPub compliance

Lemmy is an open-source, easily self-hostable link aggregator that you can use to share and discover interesting new ideas - and discuss them with the world. Its designed to work in the Fediverse, and communicate natively with other ActivityPub services, such as Mastodon, Funkwhale and Peertube.

Lemmy aim to create a decentralized alternative to widely used proprietary services like Reddit. For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to communities on any other server, and have discussions with users registered elsewhere. The front page of popular link aggregators is where many people get their daily news, so Lemmy has the potential to help alter the social media landscape. In this project, the team focuses on standards compliance, interoperability, internationalisation features, private communities and improving moderation.

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Lemmy private communities — Add private communities to Lemmy federated link aggregator

Lemmy is an open-source, easily self-hostable link aggregator that you can use to share, discover and discuss interesting new ideas - and discuss them with the world. Lemmy is a good decentralized alternative to widely used proprietary services like Reddit. It is designed to work in the Fediverse by virtue of its implementation of the W3C ActivityPub standard, and communicate natively with other ActivityPub services such as Mastodon, Funkwhale and Peertube. User registered on one server from one of these services should be able to effortlessly subscribe to communities on any other server, where they can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

In this project, the team will deliver many noteworthy upgrades ranging from a more stable API, to group federation, two-factor authentication and improved moderation. In addition the project will work on the new native client Jerboa (for the Android OS). Also for the nostalgically inclined, the project is working on a new frontend inspired by traditional web forums like phpBB.

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Lemmy Scale — ActivityPub-powered social link aggregation and discussion

Lemmy is an open-source, easily self-hostable link aggregator that is used to share, discover and discuss whatever comes to mind. Unlinke proprietary services that welcome users only on their own terms, Lemmy instances can each determine their own course. Lemmy implements the W3C ActivityPub standard, and federates with other ActivityPub services such as Mastodon, Funkwhale and Peertube. Users registered on one server from one of these services are able to subscribe to communities on other servers where they can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

In this project, a number of noteworthy features are worked on, ranging from improving UX, federation, APIs, storage optimisation, tagging, polls, and more.

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Liberaforms — Open source form server

Cloud services that offer handling of online forms are widely used, for questionnaires but also for gathering data within schools, associations, volunteer organisations, civil society and even families. While these cloud services (such as Google Forms and Microsoft Forms) can be quite convenient to create forms with, for the constituency which has to fill out these forms such practices can actually be very invasive to their privacy - as many forms not only include personal details such as their name, address, gender or age, but also a lot more intimate questions - up to medical details, political information and life style background. In many situations there is a power asymmetry between the people creating the form and the users that have to supply the data through that form. Often there is significant time pressure. No wonder that users feel socially coerced to comply and hand over their data, even though they might be perfectly aware that their own data might be used against them.

This project will produce a free and libre software solution to create online forms, and to manage the outcomes. The goal is to make something for regular humans: user-friendly, non-intrusive and light-weight. The project aims to make self-hosted form management easy even for novice users, so data can be kept safely on-premise or with a hosting company you can trust. Something that can be used by our neighbours, friends, colleagues and anyone else who respects privacy and understands the moral obligation of the creator of a form to protect the privacy of the people that are supposed to share data with them.

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LiberaForms — End tot End Encrypted Forms

Cloud services that offer handling of online forms are widely used by schools, associations, volunteer organisations, civil society, and even families to publish questionnaires and collect the results. While these cloud services (such as Google Forms and Microsoft Forms) can be quite convenient to create forms with, for the constituency which has to fill out these forms such practices can actually be very invasive because forms may not only include personal details such as their name, address, gender or age, but also more intimate questions including medical details, political information and life style background. In many situations there is a power asymmetry between the people creating the form and the users that have to supply the data through that form. Often there is significant time pressure. No wonder that users feel socially coerced to comply and hand over their data, even though they might be perfectly aware that their own data might be used against them.

LiberaForms is a transparent alternative for proprietary online forms that you can easily host yourself. In this project, LIberaForms will add end-to-end encryption with OpenPGP, meaning that the data is encrypted on the client device and only the final recipient of the form data can read it (and not just anyone with access to a server). Also, the team will add real-time collaboration on forms, in case users need to fill out forms together.

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XMPP-ActivityPub gateway — XMPP, ActivityPub and E2EE Pubsub

XMPP (aka Jabber) is the vendor-netural internet standard for instant messaging. ActivityPub is a web standard for federated social networking, used in software like Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube, Pixelfed and Funkwhale. The project consists of two components: an ActivityPub-XMPP gateway, which will be a component bridging these protocols - enabling ActivityPub users to access XMPP blogs, comments and other features, and vice versa. And adding state of the art end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for PubSub and filesharing, which entails proposing a new XMPP standard which can provide a secure way to publish, retrieve and subscribe to all sorts of data over XMPP.

The project is built on Libervia (previously known as "Salut à Toi"), a communication ecosystem based on XMPP. Libervia offers several interfaces (web, desktop, mobile, command line, text UI) and explores the XMPP protocol beyond instant messaging. Libervia features chat, blogging, file sharing, photo albums, events, forums, etc. Libervia's goal is to develop an all-in-one, easy to use "familial and personal social network", i.e. a tool to communicate with the people close to you securely - and that lets your personal data stay within your control (as it should be).

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Audio/Video Calls in Libervia — Encrypted Audio/Video Calls in multi-frontend XMPP client

Libervia is a multi-frontend, multi-purpose XMPP client. It doesn't just focus on instant messaging, and uses the open standard to provide features such as blogging/microblogging, calendar events, file sharing, end-to-end encryption, etc.

Some of the last major missing features include audio/video conferencing and desktop sharing. The goal of this project is to implement one2one calls first and then multi-user conferencing and desktop sharing, while using the e2e encryption mechanisms provided by the ecosystem where possible. These features will be available on the various front-ends, including web, desktop, and even command line.

Compatibility will be ensured with the wider XMPP ecosystem, to ensure that calls can be made without problems with other software such as Conversations or Movim.

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Librecast — E2E encrypted multicast

The Librecast project contributes to decentralising the Internet by enabling multicast. It builds transitional protocols and software to extend the reach of multicast and enable easy deployment by software developers. This can for instance help to synchronise large evolving datasets to many users at the same time (even hundreds of gigabytes of blockchain data) in an economic, reliable, transparent and fair way - unlike with unicast, everyone can get a copy of the same packets received by everyone else. Not depending on a centralised structure (anyone can be the upstream source), means it is very robust as well. LibreCast is energy efficient and as a next generation internet technology offers confidentiality and security - and is sustainable, has high scalability and throughput.

Librecast Live is a Multicast Live Streaming, Conferencing and Remote Collaborative Work Environment. It is a versatile multicast platform flexible and scalable enough to be used for live-streaming, classrooms and conferences - using an ad hoc or previously established web of trust. While using multicast helps solve the scalability inherent with this kind of setup, actually all messages are transmitted over encrypted channels - providing strong privacy and integrity assurances through E2E encryption.

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LibreOffice P2P — Encrypted collaborative editing in the browser

LibreOffice Online is the online version of the popular open source office application, and a leading implementation of the ISO/IEC 26300 OpenDocument Format standard. During the project this free software application will be modified so it can run fully client-side inside a regular browser - meaning you can view and edit office documents without an install required. This provides the technical foundations to support true P2P editing of complex office documents. The ability to remove the entire dependency on a server means that document collaboration is moving towards zero-knowledge implementations – where no single-point of architectural failure exists and no data is required to sit unencrypted on a non-user owned (or trusted) server instance. The improved LibreOffice Online will be able to provide end-to-end encryption – both for the peer2peer use case, as well as securely keeping documents encrypted when at rest. That means data is safe when the user is disconnected, whether it is stored on an untrusted server or in the local Web storage.

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Lightmeter — Email server configuration lifecycle management

Lightmeter will make it easy to run email servers large and small by visualising, monitoring, and notifying users of problems and opportunities for improved performance and security. People will regain control of sensitive communications either directly by running their own mailservers, or indirectly via the increased diversity and trustworthiness of mail hosting services.

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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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Lizard — E2E Rendez-vous and discovery

The Lizard project aims to develop a common protocol for end-to-end encrypted social applications using Tor as underlying transport mechanism, with the addition of store-and-forward servers discovered through the Tor hidden service directory. The protocol takes care of confidentiality and anonymity concerns, and adds mechanisms for easily synchronising application-level state on top. All communications are done "off the grid" using Tor, but identities can be publicly attested to using existing social media profiles. Using a small marker in your social profiles, you can signal to other Lizard users that they can transparently message you over Lizard instead. By taking care of these common discovery and privacy concerns in one easy-to-use software suite, we hope that more applications will opt for end-to-end encryption by default without compromising on anonymity.

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Collabora Online/LibreOffice Accessibility — Private and accessible collaborative editing with Collabora Online/LibreOffice

Collaborative online text editing has become undispensable for many, but not everyone can equally benefit from it. The goal of this project is to implement improved accessibility for Collabora Online. The core of the proposal is to add accessibility to the edit view of documents, which are currently just pixels for a screen reader. This means users should be able to migrate off public cloud offerings when it comes to office document editing and this project should improve privacy for the most vulnerable in the society.

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LO/CODE Book project — Professional typography inside LibreOffice

The project enhances readability of text documents by adding highly customizable paragraph-level line breaking and microtypography to the LibreOffice/Collabora Online Writer word processors. It creates a new type of software, with the print quality of proprietary DTP programs and with productivity of word processors. It saves paper and screen area with a compact paragraph layout and readable multi-column pagination. It should result in proposals to enhance the OpenDocument format standard (ISO/IEC 26300) which will be submitted for standardization, encouraging future standards to support enhanced readability, especially for people with reading difficulties.

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Collabora Online and LibreOffice — Improved visual document search for cloud service

Today it’s usually easier to use a search engine for information than find it locally, which is not optimal from a digital sovereignty point of view. Part of the problem is that we lack good open source tools to provide context and graphical search of local documents. These tools present plain-text lists for search results, which means people with good graphical memory find information slower. We think it’s a huge opportunity to show the context of search hits in a graphical form to find information faster. Technically, this will mean taking an existing file synchronization and sharing (FSS) solution, hosting your documents on-site. Then improving LibreOffice to index content in documents with their context. We will build a secure REST API on top of this in Collabora Online which provides good performance. Finally we will integrate with a search engine, e.g. Apache Solr to create a proof-of-concept search page that allows searching in all documents hosted in a FSS solution. This will serve as an example how to integrate our solution to other projects like Nextcloud.

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Loops — ActivityPub based sharing of short video clips

Loops is an innovative Fediverse platform inspired by TikTok and powered by the decentralized ActivityPub protocol. It aims to deliver personalized short-form video content through a "For You" recommendation algorithm, enhancing user engagement and discovery. The platform supports interactive features like comments and video remixes, fostering a creative and collaborative community. By connecting with the Fediverse, Loops gives users more control over their data, better privacy, and the ability to interact with other platforms—making it an exciting new way to experience social media in our ever-changing world.

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LibreOffice/Collabora Online typography — Add interoperability and state-of-the-art web typography to LibreOffice/Collabora Online line break

The project adds state-of-the-art ISO OpenDocument/web typography features and MS Office line break interoperability to LibreOffice open source office suite (reference application of ISO OpenDocument format) and Collabora Online (open source online office suite built on LibreOffice Technology). This includes the support of ISO OpenDocument text property fo:hyphenate and paragraph property fo:hyphenation-keep (same features in XSL, CSS3 and CSS4); restoring lost text layout interoperability caused by the new default line break algorithm of Microsoft Word; and improving hyphenation zone interoperability (Microsoft Word/CSS4).

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Mailpile Search Integration — Personal email search engine

Mailpile is an e-mail client and personal e-mail search engine, with a strong focus on user autonomy and privacy. This project, "Mailpile Search Integration", will adapt and enhance Mailpile so other applications can make use of Mailpile's built-in search engine and e-mail store. This requires improving Mailpile in three important ways: First, the project will add fine-grained access control, so the user can control which data is and isn't exposed. Second, enabling remote access will be facilitated, allowing a Mailpile running on a personal device to communicate with applications elsewhere on the network (such as smartphones, or services in "the cloud"). And finally, the interoperability functions themselves (the APIs) need to be defined (building on existing standards wherever possible), implemented and documented.

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Mailpile 2 (moggie) — Building a secure, modern e-mail client for self-hosting

Mailpile's mission is to empower users to be more autonomous and private in how they manage, store and communicate over e-mail, simplifying the use of relevant encryption technology (OpenPGP, Tor and encrypted local storage). Mailpile 2 will be an Open Source, secure web-mail application, usable and powerful enough to be a compelling alternative to both mainstream desktop e-mail clients and proprietary web-mail services. Mailpile 2 will offer both local and remote access to an elegant, mobile-friendly web interface, built on web-APIs exposed by Moggie. Moggie is the project's technical toolkit for searching and working with e-mail. This stage of the project is about developing Moggie to the point where it is useful as a stand-alone tool in its own right, and feature complete enough that work on the Mailpile 2 user-interface can commence.

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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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Manyverse — An off-line capable privacy-centric social messaging app

Manyverse is a social networking mobile app, implemented not as a typical cloud service, but instead on a peer-to-peer network: Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). The mobile app locally hosts the user's database, allowing them to own their personal data, and also use the app when offline. Data can sync from one mobile device to another, via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Internet. Free and open source software.

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Manyverse Private Groups — Implement SSB Private Groups in Manyverse

Manyverse is a peer-to-peer social network built on the SSB protocol where users themselves are responsible for the network. It is used by thousands of people, on both mobile and desktop. Users can share public posts with each other, but there is currently no way to write private messages to closed communities of a dozen members or more. With this project, we want to implement and improve SSB Private Groups for adoption in Manyverse. This is a cryptographic mechanism to ensure that communities can talk in private. Additionally, we want to make sure that these communities have the tools they need to moderate and prune their social space for safety.

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Mastodon - groups, filtering, moderation — Group support with ActivityPub

Mastodon is a decentralized open-source social network built on the ActivityPub protocol. It allows users to launch their own instances of social networks, while allowing the instances to connect over the Fediverse. The project foresees the development of groups, advanced filtering, and improved moderation functionality. Groups functionality gives users the option to communicate with a smaller subset of their connections; improved moderation functionality will give admins a toolkit to efficiently deal with reported cases, e.g. with batch actions; advanced filtering adds more sophisticated ways to filter posts.

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ActivityPub Quote Posts — Quote Posts in ActivityPub and Mastodon

Quote posts are a popular feature of online social media platforms. They offer the ability to share another persons post to ones own followers, while adding a comment. Interestingly, so far this seemingly obvious concept has not been standardised - meaning there is no agreed way to implement this feature into an W3C ActivityPub implementation in a way that is automatically interoperable with the other applications in the Fediverse.

Quoting is a simple but powerful feature that can help to quickly grow audiences and convey trust and respect, but in the hands of the wrong people it can also be used for malicious purposes: to misquote people, or to intentionally quote someone out of context. Since people 'have actually said it', quotes can easily be levered to rally hate speech and harass people.

This project will design an ActivityPub implementation of quote posts that tries to avoid this. It will attempt to remove some of the liabilities, and reduce the risk of weaponisation. The goals is to write an ActivityPub protocol extension proposal (a so called FEP) for quote posting, which will be implemented directly in Mastodon to see if the design holds up. Having a specification, allows everyone to efficiently implement this same feature in an interoperable way.

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MeiliSearch — Modern and responsive search

Advanced content search for apps and websites has become an increasingly protected craft. When owners of big content repositories need search at scale, they have to choose between hiring expensive search specialists or outsourcing search in its entirety. Search doesn’t need to be this complicated. It should be simple enough to be self-hosted with the developers you already have, and it should be understandable & open enough that you can resort to a managed cloud without fear of lock-in.

MeiliSearch is blazing fast and very light on resources. It packs advanced search capabilities like search-as-you-type, relevancy , typo-tolerance, synonyms and filters, all set up and configured in minutes. Our primary path to widespread adoption is integration with other developer ecosystems. Every new language, framework, platform or application that’s supported brings in a new audience of developers that wouldn’t otherwise know we even exist.

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Mellium — Add OMEMO support to XMPP library

Mellium is an XMPP library that helps other projects safely interoperate using the most widely used, federated, real-time communication protocol in use today. Unfortunately, it does not currently provide a mechanism to enable projects using it to communicate in an end-to-end encrypted manner, meaning those projects must do the hard (and potentially dangerous) work of implementing encryption themselves. This project aims to create an easy to use implementation of the OMEMO encryption standard (XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption) that is compatible with popular instant messaging clients. This will encourage projects depending on Mellium to implement strong privacy protections by lowering the barrier to entry for end-to-end encryption.

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Minedive — P2P search over webRTC

The minedive project is building several components: first, minedive is a browser extension aiming to allow users to search the web while preserving their anonymity and privacy. The second is an open source reference implementation of its rendez-vous server. minedive instances connect each-other (via WebRTC data channels) forming a two layered P2P network. The lower layer (L1) provides routing, the upper layer (L2) provides anonymous and encrypted communication among peers acting as a MIX network. This architecture guarantees that peers which know your IP address (L1) do not know search data for (L2) and vice-versa. A central (websocket) rendez-vous server is needed to find and connect with L1 peers, and to exchange keys with L2 peers, but no search goes through it. We are running a default server which can be overridden by users who want to run their own (using our reference implementation or a custom one). Users can also set the extension to pick peers from a given community (identified by an opaque tag). Currently all requests are satisfied by letting L2 peers return results from the 1st page of mainstream search engines (as they see it, in an attempt to escape the search bubble). While this will stay as a fallback, we plan to implement web crawling on peers, doing keyword extraction from URLs in local bookmarks and history and ranking with open algorithms, being transparent with users about which techniques are used and open to suggestions.

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Miru — Multi-track video editing and real-time AR effects

Miru is a new set of modular, extensible Web platform tools and components for still image and multi-track video editing and state-of-the-art, real-time AR. Using WebGL, WebAssembly, and open source, mobile-optimized machine learning models, Miru will give people on the social web the tools to edit images and apply interactive effects to recorded video without compromising on privacy and transparency. Miru aims to provide intuitive and user-friendly UIs which developers can easily integrate into their Web apps regardless of the frontend frameworks they use.

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Misskey — Misskey federation and ActivityPub compliance

Misskey is a decentralized and open source microblogging platform.It has "Reactions" that allow you to easily express your feeling, "Drive" that allow you to manage files in one place, and a highly customizable UI that makes it more fun to share something.Misskey also implements ActivityPub, so it can communicate with other platforms interactively. Since the code is open to the public, users can also create their own instances and create their own communities. Because Misskey uses Node.js, a non-blocking IO, performance remains lightweight even when federating with many instances.From the very beginning of its development, Misskey has been focused on being the first to incorporate the latest technologies of the web to provide an unique experience.

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Securing Decentralised Live Information with m-ld — Collaborative editing of LInked Data based on CRDT

m-ld is a software technology for live information sharing. It enables software engineers to reliably add real-time collaboration, support for offline working, and service resilience to both new and existing software architectures. It achieves this by operating at an "information" level, creating reusable patterns for maintaining the consistency and integrity of application content that is being edited from multiple locations at once. m-ld is built from the ground up on a W3C standard information representation, contributing ideas for its evolution, and is committed to open standards and open source. This project will research and prototype modifications to the primitives of the m-ld core protocol to natively support strong assurance of data integrity and traceability, with authority assignable to identified users or groups, so that they can be reliably assured of the integrity and controlled availability of their data.

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postmarketOS/phosh-mobile-settings integration — Consolidate functionality of FOSS mobile settings applications

Currently, there is no easy way for applications to install settings that then show up in the system's settings app on desktop Linux systems. As part of bringing desktop Linux to mobile phones in postmarketOS, we have created a "tweaks" app for phone-specific configuration options. With this project, the options in this tweaks app will be converted to a format described by a specification which settings apps then can implement. This in turn is part of a broader effort to make desktop Linux suitable for running on mobile phones as a means to create an operating system for phones without excessive user tracking or built-in ads, with a focus on the user instead of money.

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Mobilizon — Find, create and organize events

Mobilizon is a free, libre and federated groups and events management platform. Most proprietary social medias collect behavioral data and social graphs by hosting groups and events management tools (such as Facebook events, MeetUp, etc.). This can become a problem, even more when your group works on topics like activism, raising awareness and empowering citizens. Mobilizon allows for a federation of interconnected hosts, that decentralize by design data concentration while permitting interactions between users across the federation. This group and event management tool has been designed by asking and considering the needs of mobilized citizens. It includes features that has been since implemented as well by mainstream social medias (multiple profiles for each account), and does not reproduces mechanisms driven by the attention economy. As such, Mobilizon is not a social media, it does not pander to egos, but focuseson being a toolkit tomanagecommunities. On top of the eventpublishingtool, it features a group discussion tool (akin to a minimalist forum), a group page management tool (that can be used as a one-page website), a group public and private posts tool (similar to a blog), and a group link directory (to organize links to online documents, resources, etc.). With this grant, Framasoft aims to improve Mobilizon's search results (within an instance as well as throughout the federation) and recommendations. We also want to help people find groups and events close to their interests or their location, as well as allow them to import their events from other platforms when possible (Facebook, MeetUp, etc.).

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Mobilizon UX — Share events on the fediverse

Mobilizon enables the creation of community venues for organising and promoting local and topical events, activities, and groups. These instances can share information using the ActivityPub protocol, allowing users to publish their events on one Mobilizon server and propagate these elsewhere. Mobilizon is designed to be user-friendly and empowering.

In order to reach a wider audience with Mobilizon, we need to make sure we serve the needs of users well - whether they are instance administrators, event organisers, or end users. We will conduct workshops to study how each of these interacts with Mobilizon and understand their expectations, so that we can develop Mobilizon accordingly. Additionally, we will test, document and improve interoperability with other Mobilizon instances, other fediverse applications, and other websites in general. This can be achieved through plugins, APIs, and aligning on standard formats such as Ical. Ultimately, communicating about local activities will become more efficient and finding local activities easier.

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MoboSearch — Providing an alternative view on the Android App ecosystem

Mobile phones play a major role in our society, yet they still suffer from severe limitations in how they handle apps. As a result, most people are unaware of the dangers of privacy leaks and are typically offered very constrained search capabilities within one single source of information, the app store. MoboSearch is a new search engine and information portal for apps, empowering users beyond the existing app stores. The system exposes privacy and security information, like app permissions, and gives users new easy and flexible search capabilities that allow to make an informed choice and to increase people's awareness. Openness and interoperability ensure that the system can offer and receive data, so to cooperatively enable a better and healthier app ecosystem.

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Mobroute — A minimalist FOSS public-transportation router/tool suite

Mobroute is a general purpose FOSS public transportation router, enabling people to e.g. plan their trips around town. It is a Go library and command line interface (CLI) that works by directly ingesting timetable data from transit agencies themselves (in GTFS format, obtained via the Mobility Database). After this data has been fetched, route planning can be done offline, on one’s own device. Overall, Mobroute aims to offer an open source framework for integrating data-provider-agnostic GTFS public transit capabilities (integrated GTFS ETL, GTFS multisource support, and routing algorithm) into applications to get users from point A to point B via public transit, without comprising privacy or user freedoms.

In addition to the Mobroute Go library & CLI, the related subproject, the Transito app offers fully integrated routing functionality on mobile devices (Android & Linux) utilizing Mobroute's Go library.

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Monal IM — Free Jabber/XMPP client for iOS and macOS

Monal is a open source XMPP instant messaging client for MacOS and iOS which strives to be the go-to client for these platforms just like the app Conversations is for Android. XMPP in general is an open and standardized protocol for real time communication. Anyone can host their own server and communicate freely with each other, just like with email and just like email the used addresses are of the form "user@domain.tld". In this project, Monal will among others add end-to-end encryption to its chat interface, in this case the OMEMO XEP which uses a so call double ratchet mechanism to provide strong protection of the confidentiality of messages.Within the project, the team will also implement various other XEPs such as audio and Video (A/V calls), adding modern functionality and improving interoperability with other clients.

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Monal IM UI — Modern UI for XMPP on iOS and macOS

Monal is an open source XMPP instant messaging client for MacOS and iOS which strives to be the go-to client for these platforms just like the app Conversations is for Android. Like other messaging apps on iOS and macOS Monal must deal with the limitations of these platforms. Yet, Monal is able to fully support push messages even for encrypted groupchats without resorting to non-XSF- standardized extensions to the long-lasting XMPP protocol.

Since Monal has a quite mature and stable XMPP backend now, the focus is shifting to rewriting the UI of Monal. And all this while adding new features, such as voice and video calls, which have only recently been added. In this project, Monal will receive a new chat UI that provides better UX and is way more maintainable for the developers. Additionally, the audio call functionality previously funded by NLNet, will be extended by a dialpad. This will allow calls to mobile and landlines via appropriated XMPP-VoIP-bridges like jmp.chat. To speed up connection establishment support for Bind2 and FAST will be implemented. This will result in better UX, especially for users on mobile connections with low bandwidth and high latency.

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Movim — Add end-to-end encrypted videocalls to Movim XMPP

Movim is a web-based social and chat platform that acts as a frontend for the XMPP network. The goal of this project is to modernize and extend the long-existing audio and video conferencing features in three major steps. First, the existing UI will be completely refactored and redesigned to better integrate the conferencing features into the existing pages and flows. Secondly, Movim will support one-to-many call features and offer full compatibility with other XMPP clients building upon the step-one features but without relying on a central server to handle the media streams. And finally, to handle conference calls with a large number of participants, Movim will standardize and integrate SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) support that will then lift the streams network bottlenecks offering a complete and scalable experience to its users. With those three steps fulfilled Movim will then be able to greatly simplify fully standard XMPP audio and video conferencing calls on the web.

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Movim — Add OMEMO encryption to Movim XMPP client

Movim is a web platform that delivers social and IM features on top of the mature XMPP standard (aka Jabber). Unlike other chat apps, with XMPP you have a choice of both servers and clients - and the ability to add any features you want, and restrict your trust to those that deserve it. Movim is a user-friendly communication platform aimed at small and medium structures (up to a hundred simultaneous users), and sports a number of unique social features beyond instant messaging. And because it sits on XMPP, Movim users can explore the whole global instant messaging network from a single account.

In this project, Movim will add end-to-end encryption to its chat interface, in this case the OMEMO XEP. Since Movim is browser based, the implementation will be have to put the encryption layer client-side - or in other words, inside the browser. Because users can connect simultaneously on the same XMPP account using different browsers with Movim, each browsers will be seen as a different "device". Decrypted messages will be saved in a browser database, using IndexedDB. The web server will just take care of handling public keys to the XMPP network and store the encrypted messages, same as the user's XMPP server does when using archiving methods. The project will deal with both the one-to-one chat implementation and the Multi-User Chat part of Movim. This is part of a concerted effort to create reliable end-to-end encryption for XMPP based real time communications. At present growth of the wider network is hampered by lack of interoperability.

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Mox — Modern full-featured open source secure mail server

Mox is a modern email server implementation that makes it easy for people and organizations to run their own mail server, allowing them to stay in control of their own email communication, and keeping email decentralized. While high-quality open source mail server software components exist, their code bases are growing old, and getting a working setup involves configuring at least half a dozen of them to work together. That complexity has turned people to a few (centralized) email providers. Mox gives users their power back! All important protocols/mechanisms needed for a modern email setup have been implemented in mox, including: IMAP4, SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, TLSRPT, automatic TLS with ACME and Let's Encrypt, IP/domain/bayesian spam filtering, internationalized email, account autoconfiguration. Setting up mox takes just minutes with the quickstart, with no additional tools/dependencies required. The code base is lean, coherent, self-contained, well-tested, cross-referenced with specifications, liberally MIT-licensed, trivially reproducibly built and is defensively written in Go, a modern, safe programming language. Mox's integrated approach has allowed for novel functionality. Development continues on supporting more protocols and extensions, as well as quality improvements such as more automated tests. On the roadmap at the time of writing (but check the project site!): IMAP4 CONDSTORE, QRESYNC, THREAD extensions, DANE and DNSSEC, sending DMARC and TLS reports, OAUTH2, Sieve, JMAP, Webmail, Calendaring and more.

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Mox management and automation — Automated email server management and administration

Mox is a modern email server implementation that makes it easy for people and organizations to run their own mail server, allowing them to stay in control of their own email communication, and keeping email decentralized. While high-quality open source mail server software components exist, their code bases are growing old, and getting a working setup involves configuring at least half a dozen of them to work together. That complexity has turned people to a few (centralized) email providers. Within this grant the team will add a number of missing key features such as server-side email filtering (Sieve) and encrypted storage, among others.

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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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Mynij — Portable indexing and search engine for mobile

People feel lost when their connection to the internet is cut. All of a sudden, they cannot search for some reference or quickly look up something online. At the other end, hundreds of millions of servers are 'always on', awaiting the user to come online. Of course, this is neither very resilient nor economic. And it is also not necessary. In the 60s, computers used to occupy a large room. Nowadays, with smartphones, they fit in your hand. A complete copy of the Web (10 PB) already fits on 100 SSDs of 100 TB occupying a volume similar to an original IBM PC. A partial copy of the Web optimised for a single person will thus soon fit on a smartphone.

Mynij believes that Web search will eventually run offline for legal, technical and economic rationale. This is why it is building a general purpose Web search engine that runs offline and fits into a smartphone. It can provide fast results with better accuracy than online search engines. It protects privacy and freedom of expression against recent forms of digital censorship. It reduces the cost of online advertising for small businesses. It brings search algorithms and information presentation under end-user control. And you control its availability: as long as you have a copy and a working device, it can work.

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NeoChat — Native Matrix encrypted instant messaging client

NeoChat is a client for Matrix, an open and decentralized chat protocol. NeoChat is using Qt and KDE technologies to run on many platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS, Plasma Mobile and Android. One of the biggest missing features for NeoChat is support for end-to-end encryption. Currently, all the messages are sent unencrypted and encrypted conversation can't be read in NeoChat. This is not a problem for public rooms since they are usually not encrypted, but it makes NeoChat unsuitable for usage in a private or professional context. The goal of this project is to enable support for encryption in NeoChat. Since NeoChat uses libQuotient, a client library for the matrix protocol, most of the work will take place in libQuotient. This means that the work done in the project will also help other Matrix clients and bots built with Quotient, in particular Spectral and Quaternion.

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Nextcloud — Unified and intelligent search within private cloud data

The internet helps people to work, manage, share and access information and documents. Proprietary cloud services from large vendors like Microsoft, Google, Dropbox and others cannot offer the privacy and security guarantees users need. Nextcloud is a 100% open source solution where all information can stay on premise, with the protected users choose themselves. The Nextcloud Search project will solve the last remaining open issue which is unified, convenient and intelligent search and discoverability of data. The goal is to build a powerful but user friendly user interface for search across the entire private cloud. It will be possible to select data date, type, owner, size, keywords, tags and other metadata. The backend will offers indexing and searching of file based content, as well as integrated search for other contents like text chats, calendar entries, contacts, comments and other data. It will integrate with the private search capabilities of Searx. As a result the users will have the same powerful search functionalities they know and like elsewhere, but respecting the privacy of users and strict regulations like the GDPR.

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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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Nitter — Alternative privacy-preserving FOSS UI for Twitter

Nitter is an open source alternative Twitter front-end that prioritizes privacy and performance. It acts like a proxy by requesting data on the server using internal twitter APIs, and serving a lightweight front-end without JavaScript or ads, as well as RSS feeds. This bypasses the need for login credentials, and all requests including media go through the Nitter server. It's easy to self-host, and more than 100 public ins tances are available. The scope of this project is to implement features such as an account system for following Twitter users, tweet embeds, missing Twitter features, and general maintenance. The account system will store tweets in a database, paving the way for a future tweet archival feature.

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NodeBB — ActivityPub support and accessibility improvements for forum software

NodeBB is a Node.js based community forum software utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. NodeBB benefits from modern features like real-time streaming discussions, mobile responsiveness, and rich RESTful read/write APIs, while staying true to the original bulletin board/forum format — categorical hierarchies, local user accounts, and asynchronous messaging.

In this project, the team will be working on bringing ActivityPub integration to NodeBB, in order to allow forums to become truly interconnected with other ActivityPub-enabled applications throughout the wider Fediverse (of course including other NodeBB forums). The absolute hardest part of starting a community — forum or otherwise — is gaining a critical mass of adoption in order to sustain interest and content. What if we could bypass this hurdle altogether?

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Adopting the Noise Key Exchange in Tox — Improved security of Tox instant messaging with NoiseIK

Tox is a P2P instant messaging protocol that aims to provide secure messaging. It's implemented in a FOSS library called "c-toxcore" (GPLv3). The project started in the wake of Edward Snowden's disclosure of global surveillance. It's intended as an end-to-end encrypted and distributed Skype replacement. The cryptographic primitives for the key exchange (X25519), authentication (Poly1305) and symmetric encryption (XSalsa20) are state of the art peer-reviewed algorithms. Tox' authenticated key exchange (AKE) during Tox' handshake works, but it is a self-made cryptographic protocol and is known to be vulnerable to key compromise impersonation (KCI) attacks. This vulnerability enables an attacker, who compromised the static long-term private X25519 key of a Tox party Alice, to impersonate any other Tox party (with certain limitations) to Alice (reverse impersonation) and to perform Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The objective of this project is to implement a new KCI-resistant handshake based on NoiseIK in c-toxcore, which is backwards compatible to the current KCI-vulnerable handshake to enable interoperability. Further Noise's rekey feature will be evaluated for adoption.

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Nyxt — A programmable browser with advanced search integration

Nyxt is a new type of web browser designed to empower users to find and filter information on the Internet. Web browsers today, largely compete on performance in rendering, all whilst maintaining similar UIs. The common UI they employ is easy to learn, though unfortunately it is not effective for traversing the internet due to its limited capabilities. This presents itself as a problem when a user is trying to navigate the large amounts of data on the Internet and in their open tabs. To deal with this problem, Nyxt offers a set of powerful tools to index and jump around one's open tabs, through search results and the wider Internet. For example, Nyxt offers the ability for the user to filter and process their open tabs by semantic content search. Because each workflow and discipline is unique, the real advantage of Nyxt is in its fully programmable and open API. The user is free to modify Nyxt in any way they wish, even whilst it is running.

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Nyxt — Browser integration of federated, distributed platforms

Nyxt is a new type of web browser designed to empower users to find and filter information on the Internet. The information available to browsers is limited by the protocols they understand; the languages they speak. Most browsers only speak HTTP(S), a protocol designed for client/server interactions.

In its latest generation, Nyxt plans to open up access to an Internet beyond HTTP, a larger, more decentralized Internet. The new versions of Nyxt will feature support for XMPP, ActivityPub, and IPFS. Together, these decentralized technologies will power much of the next generation of Internet technologies, and Nyxt will speak their language!

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Nyxt Webextensions — Independent implementation of WebExtensions

Nyxt is a web browser that seeks to empower knowledge workers with access to better browsing tools. The Internet is the single largest corpus of human knowledge available. Effective tools to navigate, browse, and index it are important for research/work/empowerment. Nyxt provides these tools. A different take on the "browser", Nyxt is a power-browser, designed from the ground-up for work.

What was until now missing from Nyxt, and from other third party browsers, is support for common WebExtensions (such as NoScript, ad blockers, etc). In this project we'll extend Nyxt's capabilities to support WebExtensions which will allow users to customise their browsing experience and better protect themselves from abuse. Additionally, our work will pave the way for other libre WebKitGTK+ to support WebExtensions, and thus, increase adoption.

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Open Know-How Search — Search Open Hardware Projects

Open Know-How Search is a project to create a search engine for the open source hardware designs. We are building a modern, clean and accessible search experience for makers. Our index will span the entire internet and all existing ways to share designs. Users and platforms will be able to make use of the Open Know-How meta-data standard to help get their projects into the index and surface those that are in advanced stages of development and worth looking at and attempting to re-build. The front page and top results in the search will be a useful resource to someone looking for a new open source hardware project to build and contribute to.

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Oku — A browser and encrypted data vault based on IPFS

Oku is a free and open-source browser for the Web, which aims to bring several technologies, some new and some pre-existing, to everyday users of personal computers. It aims to promote the usage of peer-to-peer protocols, such as IPFS, onion routing (using the Arti implementation of the Tor anonymity protocols), and the WebKit browser engine. With the IPFS protocol built into the browser, users will be able to create, share, and view hypermedia without the need for servers; as a consequence, pages accessed through the IPFS protocol will require offline, local-first data storage on 'vaults' residing in the user's device. The browser facilitates the reading of data from the local storage vaults, prompting the user for a password so that the vault may be decrypted; afterwards, the 'hivepage' (a page accessible through a P2P protocol, as opposed to HTTP) is provided with the user's files residing in the relevant decrypted vault. This model will promote a more trustable alternative to the Web, while simultaneously reducing the cost of publicly sharing hypermedia on the Internet, as servers will no longer be responsible for hosting & serving the content.

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Improve Okular digital signature support — Improve open source tooling for digital signatures

Okular is a Free Software document viewer that supports multiple file formats such as PDF and OpenDocument Format, and besides viewing allows for annotation and digital signatures. It was initially created for desktop Linux and UNIX operating systems but meanwhile has grown into a universal, vendor-neutral document tool for all platforms - including an increasing amount of mobile operating systems such as Android, postmarketOS and pureOS. Digital signatures allow people to establish the source of documents, but can also be used to enter into legally binding agreements or contracts - so having a reliable and transparent solution is important. The aim of this project is to improve the support of PDF digital signatures in Okular both from the point of view of features and usability, making it easier for users to interact with this crucial privacy and security functionality.

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Omnom — Self-hosted bookmarking and snapshotting with search

Omnom is a webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service. It consists of two parts, a web application which stores and serves the snapshots and the other part is a browser addon to create and save bookmarks. Snapshots created by Omnom are searchable, secure and exact copies of the rendered webpages, even with front-end heavy sites which require multiple actions to reach the relevant content. Omnom also provides functionality to tag bookmarks and highlight key information to be able to organize and efficiently search in your bookmarks and snapshots.

Omnom is a self-hosted free software which can handle multiple users with their own private and publicly visible bookmarks & snapshots. Public bookmarks are available in various formats to support feed creation or programmatic processing.

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Omnom — Add social layer to personal bookmarking

Omnom is a web-based, self-hosted bookmarking and snapshotting platform that can create identical snapshots of any opened webpage to what it looks like in the browser at the time of creating the snapshot. It consists of a browser addon compatible with Firefox and Chrome based browsers and a multi-user web based application. The goal of this project is to add social features and improve user experience.

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Opaque Sphinx — Secure password-based authentication with Opaque/Sphinx

Opaque Sphinx is a project that aims to secure password-based authentication by deploying the state-of-the-art SPHINX and OPAQUE cryptographic protocols to eliminate almost all common attack vectors - such as weak guessable passwords, password reuse, phishing, password databases, offline dictionary attacks, database leaks - plaguing current solutions. These protocols provide the strongest available cryptographic properties with cryptographic proofs. The project intend to port its already existing free software SPHINX implementation - besides already existing support for Linux and Windows - to Android so it can also be used on smartphones.

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OpenAGPS — Privacy-friendly, self-hostable location service

Location-specific services benefit greatly from location awareness. However, satellite signals are slow and not always reliably available in urban areas (let alone inside buildings). Hence the need for "assisted GPS", which uses alternate sources such as information based on mobile cell ids to determine location. While it seems obvious for such a capability to be a digital commons, there are no open services reliably providing this information- Mozilla operated something called the Mozilla Location Service, but this was retired recently. This leaves users either unserved or with a huge dependency on a few large vendors that bundle their own location service (based on non-public data sources and dark code) - with the latter users being dependent on the availability of and connectivity to specific machines on the internet. This project aims to provide a self-hostable alternative based on free and public sources, such as Galmon and OpenCellID, which would function independently from the services mentioned earlier.

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Openfire IPv6 support — Add IPv6 support to the Openfire XMPP server

Openfire is an open-source, mature, cross-platform, real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol. Originating around the turn of the century, IPv6 was not explicitly supported when it was originally created. As shown by anecdotal evidence, some IPv6 functionality already ‘works’ in Openfire. This, however, is accidental, and not by design. This project intends to add explicit IPv6 support to Openfire.

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Open Web Calendar Stack — Aggregate public and private web calendars

The Open Web Calendar stack is an open-source set of Python libraries and programs which read and write calendars based on the iCalendar standard. The Open Web Calendar displays a highly configurable website that can be embedded to show a calendar. Currently, ICS URLs are supported and a goal is to also support CalDAV.

Amongst the used libraries is the popular icalendar library to parse and write iCalendar (RFC5545) information. This cornerstone of Python's ecosystem requires some work to be up-to-date with common practice such as updating the timezone implementation. The updates to the icalendar library will be tested and also pushed up the stack to the Open Web Calendar.

The recurrence calculation of events is done by the python-recurring-ical-events library. Changes to icalendar will be tested against this library to find compatibility issues. As the iCalendar standard has been updated, recurrence calculation is affected, too. These updates need to be evaluated and possibly implemented for both icalendar and the recurrence calculation.

By implementing changes at the base, the whole stack is improved. We can use the Open Web Calendar project to make sure that possible transitions and updates are mapped out and communicated to other projects in the ecosystem. Improving a FOSS solution thus spreads the accessibility of iCalendar.

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Organic Maps — Privacy-focused Android & iOS offline maps application

Organic Maps is a free and open-source mobile app, that offers fast detailed offline maps of the entire world based on the OpenStreetMap database maintained by millions of people across the globe. The app works with downloaded map files on your device, offering fast power-efficient map rendering, offline turn-by-turn navigation with walking/cycling/driving directions as well as robust offline search and trip planning features. Organic Maps is a community-driven app you can trust – no software bloat, no battery drain, no excessive permissions, no ads, no tracking, no personal data collection, no big tech's prying eyes. Pure and organic, made with love.

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Off-the-Record messaging version 4 — Advanced protocol for secure messaging

OTRv4 is the newest version of the Off-The-Record messaging protocol. It is a protocol where the newest academic research intertwines with real-world implementations. It's aim is to give end-to-end encryption, deniability, authentication, forward secrecy and post-compromise security for any kind of messaging (online or offline). The goal of this new version is to give the most secure privacy and security properties that have a real impact on the world. This new version aims to be available in different desktop clients (that use XMPP or other messaging protocol) and in mobile clients.

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Overte — Virtual reality based social platform

Overte is a virtual social platform that allows its users to socialize in a more involved way than traditional digital communications, by allowing them to enter worlds using Virtual Reality. It can be used not just for recreational activities, but also education, psychotherapy, congresses, and more. The goal is to support peoples need for immersive social platforms, by providing them with something that is privacy respecting and free.

As part of this project, we aim to take on bigger maintenance and development tasks that may otherwise happen slowly or remain undone. Such tasks include overhauling the build system, as one of our challenges is enabling volunteers to build, test, and contribute to a software with more than a million lines of code and many major dependencies on multiple different platforms.

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Owncast — ActivityPub powered Livecasting

Owncast is a self-hosted, open source live streaming platform for people to easily host and manage their own live streams. It has become an increasingly popular option for many people to break away from the large centralized services. The project will add Fediverse (ActivityPub) integration in order to provide better means of discovery, increase engagement, and to have interoperability with other applications. The goal is for Owncast to become a fully fledged member of the Fediverse, focusing on people's streams being discovered with existing timelines and search indexes. This would allow people to for instance contribute comments directly from their own ActivityPub powered website or ActivityPub-powered link aggegators like Lemmy.

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P2Pcollab — Decentralised social search and discovery

This project is working towards creating a more decentralized, privacy-preserving, collaborative internet based on the end-to-end principle where users engage in peer-to-peer collaboration and have full control over their own data, enabling them to collaborate on, publish & subscribe to content in a decentralized way, as well as to discover & disseminate content based on collaborative filtering, while allowing local, offline search of all subscribed & discovered content. The project is researching & developing P2P gossip-based protocols and implementing them as composable libraries and lightweight unikernels with a focus on privacy, security, robustness, and scalability.

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Peertube-Desktop — Enjoy and share federated videos

Cuttlefish is a client for PeerTube that will allow for searching and discovering new and interesting video's online with more privacy. PeerTube is a federated video hosting service based on the W3C ActivityPub standard. By using WebTorrent - a version of BitTorrent that runs in the browser - users help serve videos to other users. Cuttlefish is a desktop client for PeerTube, but will work on GNU/Linux-based phones (like the Librem 5 or Pinephone) as well.

We want the experience of watching PeerTube videos and using PeerTube in general to be better, by making a native application that will become the best and most efficient way to hook into the federation of interconnected video hosting services. It will have improved search, and will allow people to continue sharing watched videos with other PeerTube users for longer periods of time, instead of discarding the video when done watching. It will also help bridge PeerTube's gap between the - now separated - BitTorrent and WebTorrent networks by speaking both of those protocols.

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Peertube plugin livechat — Integrated chat for Peertube live streams

The Peertube project aims to offer a free, decentralized, and sovereign alternative to video-on-demand platforms. Since its 3.0.0 version it is possible to live stream. However, the Peertube team has chosen not to integrate a chat system, but rather to offer the necessary tools so that it is possible to integrate this functionality via plugins. It is in this context that the "Peertube Livechat" plugin was launched in 2021. This project - already installed on nearly 250 Peertube instances - has grown with time, and already provides a serious alternative to existing proprietary systems. However, there are still some steps to be done to offer the same level of service as these commercial platforms: manage the decentralization allowed by Peertube at the chat level, possibility of automatic moderation, streamer/viewer interaction tools, improve and complete the translations of the software, improve its documentation, think about the numerous requests of the community, and so on.

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Popularizing PeerTube — Decentralised video platform powered by ActivityPub

PeerTube is a software that empowers collectives to create their own video hosting and live-streaming solution, present a federated video catalog, and emancipate themselves from proprietary centralized platforms. It is nowadays used by institutions, educators, collectives of creators and citizens.

This development project is aimed toward improving on PeerTube's features and ecosystem in a way that facilitates adoption, experience and usability.

Such developments include: user's data export & import, a full accessibility audit (including integrations), splitting audio & video streams, comments review & moderation tools for content creators, automated filters to facilitate moderation, streaming in "audio only" mode, a redesign of the video management system, a new content warning/characterization system, a whole UI/UX audit and remodel.

We also want to develop the first version of an official mobile app dedicated (at first) to find and enjoy content on the PeerTube vidiverse.

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Extending PeerTube — Adding advanced search capabailities to PeerTube

This project aims to extend PeerTube to support the availability, accessibility, and discoverability of large-scale public media collections on the next generation internet. Although PeerTube is technically capable to support the distribution of large public media collections, the platform currently lacks practical examples and extensive documentation to achieve this in a timely and cost-efficient way. This project will function as a proof-of-concept that will showcase several compelling improvements to the PeerTube software by [1] developing and demonstrating the means needed for this end by migrating a large corpus of open video content, [2] implementing trustworthy open licensing metadata standards for video publication through the PeerTube platform, [3] and emphasizing the importance of accompanying subtitle files by recommending ways to generate them.

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Peppol for the masses — Hybrid self-hosted e-invoicing with decentralized identities

Peppol is an EU-backed e-Invoicing network which uses a top-down certification infrastructure to establish trust between the sender and the receiver of an invoice. In the "Peppol for the Masses!" project, we will implement Peppol in PHP (so far only Java and C# implementations are available), and package its core components (the AS4 sender and the AS4 receiver) as a Nextcloud app, so that users of the popular Nextcloud personal cloud server can send and receive invoices over AS4 directly into their self-hosted server.

Due to the top-down nature of Peppol's trust infrastructure, it's not possible to self-host a node in the Peppol network unless you go through a reasonably heavy certification process. Therefore, we will extend our implementation with support for self-hosted identities, using the "WebID" identity pattern which was popularized by the Solid project. We will also develop a re-signing gateway which replaces the signature on an AS4-Direct invoice with a Peppol-certified signature. In a follow-up project, we will also host an instance of this re-signing gateway and make it available free of charge, similar to how the LetsEncrypt project has made TLS certificates available free of charge.

This project will lower the (cost) barrier for machine-readable cryptographically-signed e-Invoicing messages, and at the same time increase the sovereignty of end-users, towards a human-centric internet of business documents.

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Manyfold — Manage private collections of 3D models

This project will build 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, we aim to develop it into a decentralized multiuser platform for hosting and distributing 3d content. Using ActivityPub, we aim to build a kind of 'decentralized Thingiverse', allowing anyone to run their own instance to distribute content, and subscribe to content on other servers using any one of the many ActivityPub services out there such as Mastodon. We also aim to develop an innovative open format for progressive transmission of 3d mesh data, allowing both quick previewing of remote models, and low-quality previews for commercial content.

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A Distributed Software Stack For Co-operation — Facilitating easy ad hoc cooperation

Perspectives aims to be to co-operation, what ActivityPub is to social networks. It provides the conceptual building blocks for co-operation, laying the groundwork for a federated, fully distributed infrastructure that supports endless varieties of co-operation. The declarative Perspectives Language allows a model to translate instantly in an application that supports multiple users to contribute to a shared process, each with her own unique perspective. The project builds a reference implementation of the distributed stack that executes these models of co-operation, and makes the information concerned searchable.

Real life is an endless affair of interlocking activities. Likewise, Perspectives models of services can overlap and build on common concepts, thus forming a federated conceptual space that allows users to move from one service to another as the need arises in a most natural way. Such an infrastructure functions as a map, promoting discovery, decreasing dependency on explicit search. However, rather than being an on-line information source to be searched, such the traditional Yellow Pages, Perspectives models allow their users (individuals and organisations alike) to interact and deal with each other on-line. Supply-demand matching in specific domains (e.g. local transport) integrates readily with such an infrastructure. Other patterns of integrating search with co-operation support form a promising area for further research.

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PGP4civiCRM — Add email encryption to CRM

E-mail security and privacy is not just relevant inside organisations or between individuals. A lot of email traffic comes from the institutions we all have to deal with, including some of the most confidential emails we get. And yet there is no way for users to protect their privacy and confidentiality when sending and receiving messages from organisations using such systems. PGP4civiCRM enables automatic PGP encryption/decryption of e-mails on the server side. While the project will provide special integration for the Constituent Relation Management System CiviCRM, the basic functionality can be used also with regular mailservers like postfix. The PGP4civiCRM core will basically be a milter, that listens for input messages, then looks up PGP keys from configurable sources (local key rings, LDAP) and then, based on a local, configurable, policy, encrypts/decrypts messages (or leaves them untouched) before passing them on. This way system administrators can with tiny effort provide transparent encryption support for all their mail users. Especially for CiviCRM the project will create an extension that allows easy web-based configuration of the relevant pieces and displaying of encrypted, received e-mails using OpenPGP.js.

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PixelDroid — Share and browse photos in the fediverse with a mobile app

PixelDroid is an Android client for Pixelfed, the federated image sharing platform based on W3C ActivityPub. Our goal is to bring the Pixelfed platform to Android and provide a mobile user experience that excites. We aim to provide feature-parity with the Pixelfed web client as well as add additional features - like image and video editing, capturing and uploading directly from the app. During the project we will also make it easy to use multiple accounts, even across different instances. Additionally, we want to contribute to the Pixelfed API with testing and additional documentation.

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PixelDroid/Media editor — Native PixelFed/ActivityPub image sharing app

PixelDroid is an Android app focused on sharing pictures and video through ActivityPub-based services such as Pixelfed and Mastodon. The scope of this project is two-fold: first to improve the application's features and make it more friendly to use for people new to the platform - we want PixelDroid to have the best onboarding experience of the fediverse. Secondly to work on photo and video editing, adding features and streamlining the editing user experience. We will also enable our work on photo and video editing to be used by others outside of the context of our app, by creating a standalone editing application and improving our 'Android media editor' library so that adding media editing to FOSS Android applications is easier than ever.

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Pixelfed — ActivityPub driven decentralised photo sharing platform

Pixelfed is an open source and decentralised photo sharing platform, in the same vein as services like Instagram. The twist is that you can yourself run the service, or pick a reliable party to run it for you. Who better to trust with your privacy and the privacy of the people that follow you? The magic behind this is the ActivityPub protocol - which means you can comment, follow, like and share from other Pixelfed servers around the world as if you were all on the same website. Timelines are in chronological order, and there is no need to track users or sell their data. The project has many features including Discover, Hashtags, Geotagging, Photo Albums, Photo Filters and a few still in development like Ephemeral Stories. The goal of the project is among others to solidify the technical base, add new features and design and build a mobile app that is compatible with Mastodon apps like Fedilab and Tusky.

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Pixelfed — Open source, federated photo sharing platform using ActivityPub

Pixelfed is a free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation. The primary scope of this project is to build a federated Groups feature which will enable people to create communities across Pixelfed instances and other fediverse software. Pixelfed Groups will support text, photo and video posts on a separate Group-only timeline feed, as well as support a powerful role based membership system where admins can easily control who can join and the other actions they can perform.

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Pixelfed Live — Live streaming and other Pixelfed enhancements

Pixelfed is an open source and decentralised photo sharing platform, in the same vein as services like Instagram. The twist is that you can yourself run the service, or pick a reliable party to run it for you. Who better to trust with your privacy and the privacy of the people that follow you? The magic behind this is the ActivityPub protocol - which means you can comment, follow, like and share from other Pixelfed servers around the world as if you were all on the same website. Timelines are in chronological order, and there is no need to track users or sell their data. The platform has many features including Discover, Hashtags, Geotagging, Photo Albums, Photo Filters and a few still in development like Ephemeral Stories. After supporting development of social discovery and a mobile app, NGI Zero funds this project to add a much requested live streaming feature to Pixelfed.

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Prosody IM — Implement SASL authentication mechanism for XMPP

XMPP is the most widely deployed standard protocol for real-time messaging today, and is a very popular choice among individuals and organizations who wish to manage their own internet communications, instead of submitting to other (e.g. commercial/data-driven) communication platforms. For an XMPP user to log in to their account today, two things are required: a username and a password. This has remained unchanged for many years, while other technologies have been steadily advancing to support security-enhancing features such as multi-factor authentication or even self-sovereign identities.

XMPP uses an authentication umbrella standard known as SASL to authenticate all connections.The way XMPP integrates SASL is defined in RFC 6120 and assumes a very simple challenge-response flow, which has worked well in allowing us to upgrade the network from older SASL mechanisms such as DIGEST-MD5 and onto more modern mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256.

To gain new authentication features beyond simple password authentication, we need to evolve XMPP’s relationship with SASL. This project will deliver just that, and will be the first complete implementation of a proposed standard (XEP-0388: Extensible SASL Profile) into the popular Prosody XMPP server. It will also implement support for per-session access control throughout Prosody, and support for XEP-0386 (Bind 2.0).

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Protomaps — Self-hostable maps based on OpenStreetMap data

Protomaps is a free and open source map of the world, deployed as a single file you can host yourself. It enables interactive, zoomable mapping applications with only static storage and HTTP Range Requests. It uses the OpenStreetMap dataset as a primary source; its configurable toolchain can create maps with specific areas, custom data, and different cartographic styles. It’s used in earth science, journalism and the public sector. Protomaps has no vendor lock-in, permits end-to- end data sovereignty, and can ensure end-user privacy. 

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Ricochet Refresh — Anonymous, meta-data free secure messaging

Ricochet Refresh, is a metadataless messenger for PCs (Windows, macOS, Unix) that provides anonymity as well as security. By using Tor, it allows people at risk making public interest disclosures to communicate in chat sessions with anonymity to journalists, members of parliament, regulators protecting the environment, financial malfeasance investigators and others who have the power in society to act as corrective mechanisms to serious wrongdoing. This project will update Ricochet, reduce known security risks, and ensure continued compatibility with Tor's onion services protocol. The possibility of anonymous communication is important for everyone, but particularly vital for those who risk reprisal in their workplace or other institutions to be able to speak up. Through anonymity, Ricochet Refresh allows the focus to be on the disclosure, not on the source or whistleblower. Thus, the project provides a tool in support of evidence-based reporting in the public interest by creating a safe on-going channel for the journalist to conduct verification as the story develops.

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Search and Displace — Find and redact privacy sensitive information

The goal of this project is to establish a workflow and toolchain which can address the problem of mass search and displacement for document content where the original documents are in a range of forms, including a wide variety of digital document formats, both binary and more modern compressed XML forms, and potentially even encompassing older documents where the only surviving form is printed or even handwritten. The term "displacement" is meant to encompass actions taken on the discovered content that are beyond straight replacement, including content tagging and redaction, as well as more complex contextual and user-refined replacement on an iterative basis. It is assumed that this process will be a server application with documents uploaded as needed, on either an individual or bulk upload basis. The solution would be built in a modular fashion so that future deployments could deploy and/or modify only the parts needed. In practical terms this involves the creation of an open source tool chain that facilitates searching for private and confidential content inside documents, for instance attachments to email messages or documents that are to be published on a website. The tool can subsequently be used for the secure and automated redaction of sensitive documents; by building this as a modular solution enables the solution to be used “standalone” with a simple GUI, or used via command line, or embedded within 3rd party systems such as document management systems, content management systems and machine learning systems. In addition a modular approach will facilitate the use of the solution both with different languages (natural and programming) and different specialities e.g. government archives, winning tenders, legal contracts, court documents etc..

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SensifAI — AI driven image tagging

Billions of users manually upload their captured videos and images to cloud storages such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Apple iCloud straight from their camera or phone. Their private pictures and video material are subsequently stored unprotected somewhere else on some remote computer, in many cases in another country with quite different legislation. Users depend on the tools from these service providers to browse their archives of often thousands and thousands of videos and photo's in search of some specific image or video of interest. The direct result of this is continuous exposure to cyber threats like extortion and an intrinsic loss of privacy towards the service providers. There is a perfectly valid user-centric approach possible in dealing with such confidential materials, which is to encrypt everything before uploading anything to the internet. At that point the user may be a lot more safe, but from now on would have a hard time locating any specific videos or images in their often very large collection. What if smart algorithms could describe the pictures for you, recognise who is in it and you can store this information and use it to conveniently search and share? This project develops an open source smart-gallery app which uses machine learning to recognize and tag all visual material automatically - and on the device itself. After that, the user can do what she or he wants with the additional information and the original source material. They can save them to local storage, using the tags for easy search and navigation. Or offload the content to the internet in encrypted form, and use the descriptions and tags to navigate this remote content. Either option makes images and videos searchable while fully preserving user privacy.

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#Seppo! — Portable ActivityPub implementation

Posting and liking self reliantly and still have a life. #Seppo! empowers you to publish short texts and images to the internet as easily as using an online service but retain full agency and responsibility. What you publish is solely subject to public law. No 3rd parties hold a stake, nobody else imposes any rules on you. This is because you publish on your own property. Which is possible because housekeeping is no more than the known follow/unfollow/block/unblock content moderation of your own single account. You do that by yourself. There are no scripting engines or databases, no technical updates required. You can focus solely on the message to deliver. You build an online presence on your own digital property, robust for decades if you decide so. #Seppo! is built on mature web standards (e.g. ActivityPub), a european technology stack, inspectable plain-text storage, is security aware and decentralised. It is made for but not limited to off-the-shelf static webspace as offered by numerous vendors all over the EU. #Seppo! targets individuals and small organisations joining the #Fediverse with max. 10k followers, optionally cross-posting to the closed platforms.

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Servo — Independent Rust-based browser engine

Servo aims to provide an independent, modular, embeddable web rendering engine, allowing developers to deliver content and applications using web standards. Servo is written in Rust, taking advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the language. As part of this project we'll add support for more CSS features to the Servo layout. The main areas of work on this project would be support for floats, writing modes and tables; which will increase the number of web pages and applications render properly in Servo.

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Servo: Benchmarking and Statistics — Infrastructure for benchmarking and testing Servo

Servo is a web engine written in Rust that already provides results from the Web Platform Test Suite. However, these results may be difficult for newcomers to understand, as they lack a clear indication of the progress in supporting modern web standards. This creates challenges for the community in assessing the current state of development. When the community inquires about the support for specific features, these capabilities can often only be verified through manual testing. Moreover, finding information about Servo's performance can be equally challenging.

To address these issues, this project aims to develop an infrastructure to benchmark and report on the current state of Servo, monitor performance differences between commits, and present these metrics and supported features in a more comprehensible way. This will give the community a clearer understanding of the state of the Servo project, leading to a more active and engaged contribution environment.

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Servo CSS — CSS feature parity for Servo browser engine

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications. Built with safety, speed, and concurrency in mind, Servo showcases the potential of Rust for modern web development. Servo's modular design allows for easy adaptation to various use cases. As part of this project we'll continue the work on adding support for more CSS features to the Servo layout. The main areas of work would be to finish Tables and Flexbox support; which will increase the number of web pages and applications render properly in Servo.

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Multiprocess Mode in Servo — Speed up Servo with parallelisation

While Servo already has multi-process mode, it’s not enabled by default. The main reason is that it isn’t completely supported on every platform yet. Only Linux and macOS have full support. It also isn't tested in the WPT suite. In this project, we want to complete the feature set of multi-process mode in Servo, set it to default, and encourage other projects based on Servo (like the Verso browser) to use it, as they could massively benefit from this multi-process architecture.

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SES - SimplyEdit Spaces — SimplyEdit Spaces - collaborative presentations

SimplyPresent allows users to collaboratively create and deliver good looking presentation using CRDT's through Hyper Hyper Space - another project supported by NGI Assure. SimplyPresent is itself based on top of the open source SimplyEdit tool, adding advanced user-friendly presentation features. SimplyPresent allows team members to live edit a presentation and the presenter notes while the presentation is being given, control the presentation from any phone without complicated setup: all that is needed on the presenting system or with remote viewers is a URL which will sync through Hyper Hyper Space.

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Signature PDF — Self-hosted tool to add signature to PDFs

PDF Signature is a free software (FLOSS) for online signing of PDF. Users can add signature, stamp, text or check marks individually, or collectively with the shared mode. The tool aims to be a free alternative to existing proprietary web services, in order to offer users more control and guarantee of what happens to the PDF processed by the software. It is easily deployable on a server, a personal machine, a nano-computer , a container image or a Yunohost instance. The future developments of this project will improve the confidentiality by encrypting the pdf stored on the server, study and improve the compatibility with the electronic signature standards (XAdEs, PAdES), internationalize the interface and add integration with Nextcloud.

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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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Solid Control — Access Control mechanism for data and services within Solid

Solid-Control aims to enhance Tim Berners-Lee's Social Linked Data Project (Solid) with Attribute-Based Access Control. By extending the Linked Data Platform (LDP) with WebID based authentication and Access Control Lists (ACL), Solid has enabled the emergence of new forms of Hyper-Apps. These apps can follow data from server to server, authenticate when needed and write to the user's Personal Online Data storage (Pod), creating a decentralised social web.

With relation-based access control (friend of a friend, business network, etc.), Solid can be a full alternative to centralised social networks. We also want to allow authentication based on Verifiable Claims such as age. Solid-Control will work on developing the needed logic, verify protocols, write prototype implementations and contribute to the Solid Auth Community groups, which are developing specs for standardisation.

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Solid NC 2024 — Add more Solid capabilities to Nextcloud

The Solid Nextcloud project implemented a server component with the Solid specification for Nextcloud, which makes ones Nextcloud server a Solid server as well. This allows user to user their existing server for identity and storage within the Solid eco-system.

To enhance security and to enable easier cooperation and release of new versions we need to improve a number of things. The CI/CD of the project will be improved. Based on an earlier audit, we will implement a number of security enhancing features and we will release a PHP Solid Server next to the Solid Nextcloud module. These servers share a lot of code, which makes maintenance easier. The advantage is that PHP has a security maintenance cycle of three years, making it easier for users to stay secure when using a Solid server.

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Solid-NextCloud app — Bridge Nextcloud to Solid

This project connects the world of Solid with the world of Nextcloud. The aim is to develop an open source Nextcloud app that turns a Nextcloud server into a spec-compliant Solid server. It gives every user a WebID profile and allows Solid apps to store data on the user's Nextcloud account. It also exposes some of the user's existing Nextcloud data like contacts and calendar events as Solid user data, so that Solid apps can interact with the user's Nextcloud data, and allow the user to manage which Solid apps can access which specific aspects of the user's personal data. We will make our implementation compatible with the latest version of the Solid spec (including DPop tokens and the WebSockets AUTH command), and contribute the surface tests we create for this as a well-documented independent test-suite, for other Solid server implementers to benefit from. We will also publish a stand-alone version of our PHP components, which can run independently of Nextcloud.

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Solid-Search — Queries in a pod

Solid-Search aims to provide an open source module that adds full-text search functionality to Solid pods. Solid is an emergent specification initiated by the inventor of the World Wide Web, sir Tim Berners-Lee. Solid aims to decentralize the web by decoupling applications from databases by introducing Solid Pods (personal online datastores that are in full control of the data owner). Having a way to search through your personal data on your Solid Pod is a must-have for the project to become truly successful. However, this requires technology that does not exist yet: a full-text search interface that works with schema-less RDF data. In order to maximize adoption and retain a modular, open approach, we will standardize the way in which data changes are described. By doing so, it will be relatively easy to introduce new search / query systems (such as search by location). The project will will create the open source search back-end, improve linked data synchronisation specs, link the module to two solid implementations, create a front-end for end-users, and write a tutorial for adding data sources.

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Secure User Interfaces (Spritely) — Usability of decentralised social media

Spritely is a project to advance the federated social network by adding richer communication and privacy/security features to the network. This particular sub-project aims to demonstrate how user interfaces can and should play an important role in user security. The core elements necessary for secure interaction are shown through a simple chat interface which integrates a contact list as an easy-to-use implementation of a "petname interface". Information from this contact list is integrated throughout the implementation in such a way that helps reduce phishing risk, aids discovery of meeting other users, and requires no centralized naming authority. As an additional benefit, this project will demonstrate some of the asynchronous network programming features of the Spritely development stack.

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Spritely — Capability based petname system

Users are currently caught between two worlds of identity solutions: prepackaged centralized identity silos (which also tend to be very phishing-vulnerable) and more decentralized naming systems that awkwardly separate the experience of secure connections from identity. What if instead users could have an experience where decentralized naming was a natural outgrowth of using the application? Spritely is a laboratory project to advance the decentralized social web founded by authors of the popular ActivityPub federated social web protocol. Spritely's approach to decentralized naming systems is to implement a "petnames system", where local meaning is given to "petnames" to otherwise non-human-meaningful decentralized identifiers (such as a hash of cryptographic key material). An important part of this design is that decentralized naming flows should be a natural part of use of the program.

Petnames tend to resemble local contacts in a "contact list", but petnames on their own do not provide a sufficient way to discover, meet, and come to trust new contacts. A complete petname system also provides "edge names": for example "CWebber=>JessicaTallon" would show JessicaTallon as an "edge name" proposed by the petname CWebber. Our system also provides support for contacts introduced in a context with no existing relationships; these are called "self-proposed names" and are rendered in a way distinct from petnames and edge names. This has been under-implemented in existing petname systems; since Spritely is implementing decentralized communication systems, this will be a full implementation of a petname system (including edge names and self-proposed names) in an ergonomic manner that can also be applied to other decentralized systems. In addition to a specification, the project will delivered a usable chat application plus contact list.

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StreetComplete UX — Improve usability of StreetComplete

OpenStreetMap is the best source of information for general purpose search engines that need a geographic data about locations and properties of various objects. The objects vary from cities and other settlements to shops, parks, roads, schools, railways, motorways, forests, beaches etc etc etc. The search engine can use the data to answer queries such as "route to nearest wheelchair accessible greengrocer", "list of national parks near motorways" or "London weather". Full OpenStreetMap dataset is publicly available on an open license and already used for many purposes.

The project will make collecting open data for OpenStreetMap easier and more efficient, and lower the threshold for contribution by improving usability and accessibility. Any user should be able to help improve OpenStreetMap data, simply by downloading the app from F-droid or Google store and map as they walk.

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Structured Email for Roundcube — Add schema.org metadata awareness to open source email

Email is probably the only open and widespread technology bridging our private information space (Mobile, Desktop) and the public Internet. It can in fact be considered our "personal API". Structured Email for Roundcube develops a plugin for the popular Roundcube Webmail software, which extracts Schema.org data embedded in email messages. Based on that, it allows for new ways of presenting emails and interacting with them.

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Sylk chat — Add instant messaging features to Sylk

Internet communications privacy is important to users, and there is a limited set of encrypted multiparty audio and videoconferencing solutions available to consumers and businesses today. The market, predominantly occupied by proprietary services that often require risky plugins, lack introspection and transparency, proved to expose users to significant security and privacy issues. This trend must be counteracted by better open source equivalents. Sylk provides a multi-party video encrypted conferencing solution meant to run on an end user computer or a mobile device. It is based on the WebRTC standard, and has a focus on user privacy and easy of use. This project will add one-to-one and group chat capabilities, allowing users to for example have end-to-end encryption or maintain long term group chats like other messaging apps do.

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Sylk Client — Secure multiparty videoconferencing application

Internet communications privacy is important to users, and there is a limited set of encrypted multiparty audio and videoconferencing solutions available to consumers and businesses today. The market, predominantly occupied by proprietary services that often require risky plugins, lack introspection and transparency, proved to expose users to significant security and privacy issues. This trend must be counteracted by better open source equivalents.

SylkSuite, composed by SylkServer and SylkClient is a clean and elegant open source multiparty conferencing solution for both the client and a server written in Python. SylkSuite allows groups of users to communicate privately with rich multimedia, accessed through different protocol stacks. SylkSuite allows bridging SIP clients, XMPP endpoints and WebRTC applications by using Janus backend.

The developers have a focus on strong interoperability based on the use of open standards.

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Sylk Mobile — Secure real-time mobile communications

Internet communications privacy is important to users, and there is a limited set of encrypted multiparty audio and videoconferencing solutions available to consumers and businesses today. The market, predominantly occupied by proprietary services that often require risky plugins, lack introspection and transparency, proved to expose users to significant security and privacy issues. This trend must be counteracted by better open source equivalents. Sylk Mobile provides a multi-party video encrypted conferencing solution mean to run on an end user computer or a mobile device. It is based on the WebRTC standard, and has a focus on user privacy and easy of use.

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Taler-Odoo Payment System (TOPS) — Integration module for TALER in Odoo

The Taler-Odoo Payment System (TOPS) will integrate the GNU Taler payment system within Odoo, a business management software suite that includes customer relationship management, e-commerce, billing, accounting, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, and inventory management. With Odoo, merchants can create invoices for products they sell, websites to display them and much more.

This project will produce an Odoo module written in Javascript and Python, which allows users to pay with Taler. Similar to any other payment integration within the Odoo Framework, the module integrates into the functionality of other existing Odoo modules (ticket sale, online shopping, invoices, etc). It will allows merchants to offer a customer to choose a payment system that fully respects their privacy.

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Road Signs for Digital Payments — Safe, usable financial interfaces for poorly-schooled adults.

GNU Taler is a digital payment protocol for privacy-preserving cash-like transactions. It improves usability by avoiding the need for the payer to authenticate to third parties. OIM is a free, open source emerging approach of design for creating safe, usable financial interfaces for poorly-schooled adults.

Worldwide UNESCO estimates over 750 million adults to be unable to read or write in any language, and hundreds of millions of more have extremely limited ability. Due to unequal schooling opportunities, most are women. In Europe millions of migrants, refugees and marginalized people cannot confidently use digital payments.

Digital OIM features carefully user-tested cash scrollbars and counting tables, iconographic navigation, mnemonic cues, user-reversible transaction processes, a 0-9 (not 1-0) numeric keypad and more. Poorly-schooled app users learn how to decode place value notation, arithmetic graphs and other schooled, formal sector protocols from repetitive use.

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Tantum Search — Context-enhanced search driven by schema.org

Tantum Search’s goal is to present information in a fair and transparent context for the users. The platform lets users make an inventory of any information using schema.org schemas (like video, audio, paintings, ebooks, events, goods, services) and allows users to search through these entries on three axes: word, contextual and geo reference resolution. Providers of information can easily and without great effort add their information to the platform and make it available online – the platform automatically creates an interactive page which will be search engine optimized and users get free and unbiased access to search for goods and services. The ranking focuses on the search query and less on link popularity. Thus, ‘internet giants’ are not necessarily listed at the top due to their popularity and in addition, the ranking algorithm will be transparently released as open source so the community can optimize it.

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Tau — Remote sharing of terminal sessions

A common problem among people working on a command-line interface is to share their terminal session with one or many other people via the internet, ideally along with an audio stream, without viewers having to install any specific software. This project creates a solution that enables anyone with a web browser to receive such a broadcast.

Unlike generic screensharing alternatives, a broadcast created by .tau will not be a stream of compressed video but rather a stream of ASCII characters with preserved timing as well as the broadcaster's terminal look & feel, and giving the ability to easily copy text. The broadcaster will have a nice and easy experience installing a piece of software which accomplishes this.

Upon completing a broadcast, a single resultant file is available for later viewing on the internet and or private distribution. Simple, portable and robust.

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Tauri Apps — A safer run-time for web technology based apps

Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make more trustworthy applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any frontend framework in existence. A popular use case is to create a desktop or mobile version of a web app, rather than wasting effort on creating native clients for each platform. Unlike other solutions (e.g. Microsoft's Electron), it is built in the type-safe language Rust - and the team has a focus on strong isolation, shielding the user from malicious or untrusted code downloaded "live" from the internet. After all, once breached, such an app can for instance siphon off cryptocurrencies or bootstrap other more persistent malware.

In this project, the team works among others on a particularly innovative feature, to prevent JS injection for all application types. In this approach Rust Code Injection is used alongside dependency-free EcmaScript, Object.freeze(), and a filtering iFrame that is the only subsystem permitted to communicate with the API. This will help to create more secure applications,

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TypeCell — CRDT-based collaborative block-based editor

TypeCell aims to make software development more open, simple and accessible. TypeCell integrates a live-programming environment as a first-class citizen in an end-user block-based document editor, forming an open source application platform where users can instantly inspect, edit and collaborate on the software they’re using. TypeCell spans a number of different projects improving and building on top of Matrix, Yjs and Prosemirror to advance local-first, distributed and collaborative software for the web.

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uMap — Collaborative custom mapping with OpenStreetMap data

uMap is an online open source application to make custom maps. It aims to make creating maps easy for anyone in a few clicks. It’s simple for basic use cases, whether you want to prepare a bike travel with your friends or communicate the current roadworks for your city. But it’s also flexible and extendable for more complex or custom ones: drawing or importing data, customizing style and interface, sharing access to a map… uMap is also easy to install and to maintain to enforce a decentralized model. It is already deployed in several European countries, and is translated in dozen of languages. Plus, it also allows to create maps anonymously. In this project, we will adding real-time collaboration on maps with local-first support - which will for instance help a lot with live events and mapping sprints - and clean up the user interface.

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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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ValOS Cryptographic Content Security project — Cryptographic Content Security for ValOS

ValOS (Valaa Open System) is a project pushing programming to become a civic skill. It’s a decentralized software development architecture that empowers beginners with little training or prior experience to create practical web applications. ValOS applications and data are created, stored and distributed as event streams. ValOS Gateway is a JavaScript library that acts like a browser: it connects to event streams, reduces them into applications and provides means to induce new events. ValOS Cryptographic Content Security project focuses on enhancing the infrastructure level security of ValOS through event log hash chaining, end-to-end encryption and other features.

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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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Next Generation Browser Profile Workflow — A profile system for the Verso browser

Users currently do not have much ownership over their browser data, including bookmarks, history, which extensions are activated, etc… Current web browsers do not really facilitate user agency, let alone in a standardised way. And we are not even mentioning the fact that synchronisation between devices is only possible through third parties, because there is no real transit between browsers (just imports). Even worse: despite this data being rather private, data is not really encrypted.

The solution is complex, and it starts with the rework of browser profiles and browser workflows conceptually. This project aims to define the standards of encapsulation of these profiles separately from the browser while keeping privacy and security in focus. The prototype would be integrated in the Verso browser, but along the way the underlying Servo engine also gets some improvements for accommodating these endeavours properly.

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VFRAME: Visual Defense Tools — Use computer-vision to shield privacy in video

Visible data shares many of the same risks as wireless data yet visual privacy is often overlooked in the field of information security studies as separate and less relevant. As computer vision becomes increasingly adept at understanding the visual domain, differences between existing protocols for processing wireless data and emerging protocols for processing visible data (computer vision) become less apparent. Ultimately, images and video are wireless data too, and they are exposed to an increasing number of attacks on visual information privacy with less technologies for protection. Visual Defense Tools will explore and prototype computer vision methods for visual privacy through visual obfuscation and minimization techniques, mostly related to biometrics. The goal will be to build a conceptual road map and functional open-source prototypes to stimulate future development of more accessible visual privacy technologies.

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Video chat privacy — Add privacy features to video chats

Making video calls can be very invasive to privacy: the camera does not only capture the face and posture of the person talking, but will in fact capture the entire environment in glorious high definition - from the books in your bookshelf to family members or laundry rack behind you. This information is of no interest to the other end, but with a camera you have little choice: once you slide open the camera cover, it takes everything within the field of view and broadcasts it to the other side. This project aims to use advanced AI technology to edit the video feed in real-time, and apply various privacy enhancements such as removal of backgrounds.

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Waasabi Framework — P2P Live Streaming for events

Waasabi is a highly customizable platform for self-hosted video streaming (live broadcast) events. It is provided as a flexible open source web framework that anyone can host and integrate directly into their existing website. By focusing on quick setup, ease of use and customizability Waasabi aims to lower the barrier of entry for hosting custom live streaming events on one's own website, side-stepping the cost, compromises and limitations stemming from using various "batteries-included" offerings, but also removing the hassle of having to build everything from scratch. Active research into the creation of a peer-to-peer streaming backend seeks to advance the project's long-term goal of promoting the adoption of owned experiences through the use of decentralized technology. By further cutting down on dependencies, cost and infrastructure complexity this effort aims to enable broadcasts to scale as the audience size grows, which in turn will support Waasabi's continued adoption.

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Independent captions and transcript augmentation — Speech-to-text integration for Waasabi

Waasabi is a highly customizable platform for self-hosted video streaming (live broadcast) events. It is provided as a flexible open source web framework that anyone can host and integrate directly into their existing website. By focusing on quick setup, ease of use and customizability Waasabi aims to lower the barrier of entry for hosting custom live streaming events on one's own website, side-stepping the cost, compromises and limitations stemming from using various "batteries-included" offerings, but also removing the hassle of having to build everything from scratch.

In this project the team seeks to integrate tools for transcript augmentation, augmented human captioning and automatic machine-generated captions using open-source software based on machine learning and royalty-free training data and models. The primary use case is live captioning for live internet broadcasts (primarily video streaming). With such tools online event organizers will be able to create interactive transcripts and better live captions for their events anytime everywhere - and without external dependencies.

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Wax — Add ODF, legacy office and PDF capabilities to Wax

Wax (formerly known as CokoDocs) is an open-source, web-based Word Processor that is collaborative by design. In this project we're actively extending CokoDocs' use cases to include paging support (through PagedJS), OpenDocument Format import/export as well as support for some legacy file formats. In addition we will add backend system configuration, asset management, text chat and more. CokoDocs aiming to become a best in breed, highly customizable, and innovative word processor with strong privacy and security properties and elegant accessible design.

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Improving WebKit on Windows — Improve Windows support for the WebKit browser engine

WebKit is an open source browser engine, used by Safari and others. Such a browser engine is used to lay out web pages, graphically render the content and perform all other kinds of tasks under the hood of a browser or WebView. In recent years, one engine (Google's Blink engine, which forked from Webkit in 2013) has started to become nearly pervasive due to the market share of Google.

Having a global dependency on a single piece of code maintained by a single entity is a significant liability, and isn't good for the open web either. It is important that applications on all platforms are able to choose from different engines like WebKit, Gecko or Servo. One weak part of Webkit in recent years has been its limited support for the Windows platform. This project will focus on enabling more features in WebKit’s Windows port, to make WebKit a more viable alternative choice when building a cross-platform web browser.

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DeltaChat/WebXDC — Portable private apps that can be shared in e.g. chat

Webxdc is a fresh and still evolving effort to explore "private apps", essentially 'portable' web apps through which users can interact in any number of ways outside of the traditional client-server paradigm, e.g. over E2EE chat. These mini-apps offer interesting interaction patterns -- without any dependency on centralised infrastructure, additional logins etc. It grew from Delta Chat, a highly innovative solution that uses secure email-based communication technology for social networking, protected with OpenPGP/Autocrypt.

The project will further develop the concept of Webxdc apps, and make it for instance possible for users to make data portable (which is currently not possible due to missing security controls for that).

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Webxdc evolve — Comparative analysis of HTML5 app containers

Webxdc.org is an evolving standard which defines a format for portable HTML5 applications and an API for local-first, peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted applications. For this project we will perform a comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary efforts with similar goals, including those by W3C working groups, independent open-source developers, and noteworthy proprietary platforms. We'll produce reference documents providing developers with a comprehensive overview of the space, summarizing their options for packaging portable HTML5 applications for different platforms, and highlighting affinities between closely aligned projects. As a follow-up, we'll propose additions to the webxdc API based on patterns observed in other projects, aiming to reduce the complexity of common designs and facilitate portability between or interoperability with existing platform implementations.

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Whisperfish — Cross-platform mobile client for Signal and derivatives

Whisperfish is a third-party open source client for the popular Signal instant messaging network. Whisperfish is an advanced beta stage, and is available for SailfishOS. In collaboration with the Axolotl project, within this project we aim for implementing full-fledged clients for various mobile operating systems.

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XWiki — Bring wiki capabilities into the Fediverse

XWiki is a modern and extensible open source wiki platform. Up until now, XWiki had been focusing on providing the best collaboration experience and features to its users. We're now taking this to the next level by having XWiki be part of the larger federation of collaboration and social software (a.k.a. fediverse), thus allowing users to collaborate externally. XWiki is embracing the W3C ActivityPub specification. Specifically we're implementing the server part of the specification, to be able to both view activity and content happening in external services inside XWiki itself and to make XWiki's activity and content available from these other services too. A specific but crucial use case, is to allow content collaboration between different XWiki servers, sharing content and activity.

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Wobble Web — Hybrid graphics editor and coding environment

WobbleWeb is a hybrid graphics editor and coding environment for making and sharing small-scale websites. It provides a gentle and playful introduction to coding in javascript and html, where dragging something on the page changes the code, and editing the code changes what is on the screen. The project is built upon a set of open-source web components that can be used with the editor as well as independently. The web components serve as a direct wrapper to html, adding gesture-based and direct in-browser editing capabilities to existing HTML and Web APIs. The extensible custom elements allow the open-source community to build more advanced features, such as incorporating canvas elements, WebGL, or integration with backend APIs. WobbleWeb differs from existing graphical webpage builders, with its emphasis on writing javascript for beginners, as well as its modular and extensible ecosystem.

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Wolvic — Web browser designed for use in XR devices

Everybody will meanwhile have come across people wearing strange glasses, immersed in a world beyond the here and now. But what are they looking at, and how does the web fit in there? Wolvic is a web browser dedicated to work with virtual reality (VR) and enhanced reality (XR). The goal of this project is to add a number of important features such as VR peripheral awareness (placing contextual information on the edge of the user's vision) and spatial reasoning (3D representation of navigation-related information) to the Wolvic browser. Wolvic is the only open source browser available in the XR space, and as such any device maker or other third party can create their own version of Wolvic to explore the burgeoning XR space.

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Wolvic User Interface — Flexible windows, tabs, zooming and web rendering in Wolvic

Wolvic is an Open Source Web browser developed for XR (Extended Reality) devices, focusing on delivering both traditional web browsing and immersive experiences across multiple platforms. Led by Igalia, with its significant expertise in browser engine development and standards organizations, Wolvic aims to broaden the accessibility and functionality of web browsing in the XR space. This project will further the development of Wolvic by improving its user experience and adding support for more content, standards, and platforms. We will enhance the flexibility of window management, improve browsing functionality like tabs and zoom, and refine hand tracking and related features in the 3D space. Although Wolvic currently uses the Gecko browser engine, its architecture is designed to be independent of any particular engine; for improved support and performance, we will integrate the Chromium engine and make available a Chromium-based version of Wolvic alongside the existing Gecko-based one. Furthermore, we will extend compatibility to new device formats, such as lightweight Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. Finally, we are enhancing our support of AR experiences on the Web and implementing the WebPayments standard for secure online transactions.

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WordPress ActivityPub — Bring ActivityPub social networking to the widely used Wordpress

WordPress ActivityPub is a plugin that allows your site users to interact with other users in the fediverse. Currently the plugin supports Follows by remote users, sending out pubilc posts to followers, and receiving remote users public Comments on local posts. This project will develop features allowing for a more rich and typical social experience with Direct messages, Followers only posts, and Threaded comments to and from the fediverse. Moderation tools will be included and user privacy features will also be developed.

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Event Federation Plugin for WordPress — Add ActivityPub to events created with most common WordPress event plugins

Freedom in announcing events. The WordPress Event Federation plugin allows events created in WordPress with the most popular event plugins to be seamlessly published to Fediverse via ActivityPub. The core problem is that events need to be discoverable, listable and subscribable by potential visitors. Since organisers' personal websites do not meet this requirement, most of them publish their events on multiple (commercial) platforms, which results in people searching for events being tied to these platforms. Currently, many to most event organisers use WordPress to run their own website. With this plugin, they can make their events even more visible without changing their workflow. At the same time, they gain data sovereignty and independence from traditional search engines and platforms that give less control over how content can be filtered. The goal is to realise typical use cases, such as server-to-server federation with Mobilizon instances, or another example: to allow Fediverse users, such as those of Mastodon, to follow events directly from the organisers.

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WPE Android — Embedded-friendly Webview based on WebKit

WPE (Web Platform for Embedded) is a WebKit port for Linux-based embedded devices with a focus on flexibility, security and performance on lower-powered devices. Albeit less known than Chromium, Firefox or Safari, WPE is currently deployed in millions of embedded devices (e.g. set-top-boxes, smart home devices, kitchen appliances, infotainment, etc), but it hasn't yet reached those based on the Android Operating System, which has become an important actor for certain types of devices, such as phones, tablets, set-top-boxes and even IoT devices.

In such environments, the only option currently available to leverage the power of the Web Platform is to use Android's WebView, which is based on Chromium and therefore problematic in cases where using that is not an option. By bringing WPE to Android in the form of an Android WebView-compatible component, we aim not just to make WPE available in more platforms but also to expand the options Android developers currently have so that they can choose between a Chromium-based WebView and a WebKit-based WebView for their applications. This would be great to cover Web rendering needs in general on Android, and particularly beneficial for multimedia-intensive use cases (e.g. set-top-boxes, digital signage...), as well as for other less conventional use cases such as QA & testing (e.g. testing WebKit-based browsers on Android based systems).

Last but not least, as a side effect of widening the reach of WPE to Android-based devices, we believe that we would also be bringing more balance and diversity to the Web, by making sure that developers have a realistic alternative to the Chromium-based Web rendering engine they can use to develop their products.

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XWiki ActivityPub — First class ActivityPub support in XWiki

XWiki is a modern and extensible open source wiki platform. XWiki is the first wiki that is part of the larger federation of collaboration and social software (a.k.a. fediverse), allowing users to collaborate externally. XWiki is embracing the W3C ActivityPub specification. Specifically we're implementing the server part of the specification, to be able to both view activity and content happening in external services inside XWiki itself and to make XWiki's activity and content available from these other services too. A specific but crucial use case, is to allow content collaboration between different XWiki servers, sharing content and activity.

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Yrs — Collaborative editing with CRDT written in Rust

Yrs "wires" will be a native port (in the Rust programming language) of the Yjs shared editing framework. Abstractly speaking, Yjs allows many users to concurrently manipulate state that eventually converges. It is a popular solution for enabling collaborative editing (Google Docs style) on the web because it is indefinitely scalable, works peer-to-peer, and has a rich ecosystem of plugins. There are plugins that allow you to connect with other peers over different network providers (WebRTC, Websocket, Dat/Hyper, IPFS, XMPP, ..) and there are many editor plugins that allow you to make existing (rich-)text editors collaborative.

The Yjs project is about connecting projects with each other and providing a network-agnostic solution for syncing state. A native port will allow native applications (e.g. XI, Vi, Emacs, Android, iPhone, ..) to sync state with web-based applications. We chose Rust because it's well suited to be embedded in other languages like C/C++, PHP, Python, Swift, and Java. With Yrs, we want to connect even more projects with each other and provide a modern collaboration engine for native applications.

The Rust implementation will implement the full feature set of the shared types, including the event system. This will enable users to parse existing Yjs documents, manipulate them, and implement collaborative applications. The port will make it easy to "bind" to another language so that the shared state is available in other languages as well. There will likely be a WASM binding, a C++ binding, and a Python binding (provided by Quantstack). Other existing features like awareness, selective Undo/Redo manager, relative positions, and differential updates will be added after the initial release.

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Yrs Undo — Rust-based CRDT framework for real-time multi-user applications

Yrs "wires" is a native port (in the Rust programming language) of the Yjs shared editing framework. Abstractly speaking, Yjs allows many users to concurrently manipulate state that eventually converges. It is a popular solution for enabling collaborative editing (Google Docs style) on the web because it is indefinitely scalable, works peer-to-peer, and has a rich ecosystem of plugins. There are plugins that allow you to connect with other peers over different network providers (WebRTC, Websocket, Dat/Hyper, IPFS, XMPP, ..) and there are many editor plugins that allow you to make existing (rich-)text editors collaborative. This project will add a selective Undo/Redo manager, include support for other native clients and to interop with languages like Java, PHP and Swift. The goal is to reach full feature compatibility with Yjs and improve its performance even more - bringing a collaborative, decentralized experience where users' data lies in their own hands.

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