Added Funding for Open Source post

project/blog/routes.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 
 blog_post_titles = [
+    "eu-os-funding",
     "new-password",
     "credentials",
     "defendable-internet",

project/blog/templates/blog/blog.html

@@ -7,6 +7,19 @@
 {% block content %}
 <div class="blog-container">
 
+        <div class="blog-post-card card-overlay">
+        <img
+          src="{{ url_for('static', filename='img/consistency.png') }}"
+          alt="Entropy"
+          class="blog-post-card__image" />
+        <div class="blog-post-card__body">
+            <a href="{{ url_for('blog.posts', blog_title='eu-os-funding') }}">
+                <h2 class="recipe-title-long">The European Union must keep funding free software</h2></a>
+            <p>Open Letter to the European Commission, initially published by petites singularités, English translation provided by OW2.</p>
+            <p class="blog-post-card__date">Published on February 24, 2023</p>
+        </div>
+    </div>
+
     <div class="blog-post-card card-overlay">
         <img
           src="{{ url_for('static', filename='img/new-password.png') }}"

project/blog/templates/blog/eu-os-funding.html

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+{% extends "blogpost.html" %}
+
+{% block title %}
+<h1>The European Union must keep funding free software</h1>
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block date %}
+<p class="blogpost__date">Published on July 22, 2024</p>
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block image %}
+<img
+  src="{{ url_for('static', filename='img/consistency2.png') }}"
+  alt="consistency"
+  class="blogpost__image" />
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block article %}
+<p>Original: <a href="https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI">https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI</a>,
+initially published by <a href="https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/lettre-publique-aux-ncp-au-sujet-de-ngi/">petites singularites</a>,
+    English translation provided by <a href="https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must!%5B%5D(https://)_keep_funding_free_software_open_letter">OW2</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to sign the letter, please publish the letter on your website and <a href="https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI#">complete the table below on this page</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Open Letter to the European Commission </p>
+
+<p>Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission's Horizon programme,
+fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls). This
+year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that
+Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.</p>
+
+<p>NGI programmes have shown their strength and importance to supporting the European software infrastructure,
+as a generic funding instrument to fund digital commons and ensure their long-term sustainability. We find
+this transformation incomprehensible, moreover when NGI has proven efficient and economical to support free
+software as a whole, from the smallest to the most established initiatives. This ecosystem diversity backs
+the strength of European technological innovation, and maintaining the NGI initiative to provide structural
+support to software projects at the heart of worldwide innovation is key to enforce the sovereignty of a
+European infrastructure.</p>
+
+<p>Contrary to common perception, technical innovations often originate from European rather than North
+American programming communities, and are mostly initiated by small-scaled organisations.</p>
+
+<p>Previous Cluster 4 allocated 27 million euros to:</p>
+
+<ul>
+    <li>“Human centric Internet aligned with values and principles commonly shared in Europe” ;</li>
+    <li>“A flourishing internet, based on common building blocks created within NGI, that enables better control of our digital life” ;</li>
+    <li>“A structured ecosystem of talented contributors driving the creation of new internet commons and the evolution of existing internet commons”.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects received NGI funding in the first 5 years, backed
+by 18 organisations managing these European funding consortia.</p>
+
+<p>NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to fund third parties by the means
+of open calls, to structure commons that cover the whole Internet scope - from hardware to application,
+operating systems, digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not renewed
+in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for research and innovation in Europe.</p>
+
+<p>Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone countries as well as
+    “widening countries” [1], currently both a success and an ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before
+us. NGI also contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project funding does.
+It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing collaboration, identification and reuse of
+common elements across projects, interoperability in identification systems and beyond, and setting up
+development models that mix diverse scales and types of European funding schemes.</p>
+
+<p>While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to develop software and
+    infrastructure that massively capture private consumer data, the EU can’t afford this renunciation.</p>
+
+<p>Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design the opposite of potential
+vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our data local and favors a community-wide economy and
+know-how, while allowing an international collaboration.</p>
+
+<p>This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the challenge of technological
+sovereignty is central, and free software allows to address it while acting for peace and sovereignty in
+the digital world as a whole.</p>
+
+<p>In this perspective, we urge you to claim for preserving the NGI programme as part of the 2025 funding programme.</p>
+{% endblock %}

project/build/blog/index.html

@@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ <h1><a href="/">Unseen University</a></h1>
 
 <div class="blog-container">
 
+        <div class="blog-post-card card-overlay">
+        <img
+          src="/static/img/consistency.png"
+          alt="Entropy"
+          class="blog-post-card__image" />
+        <div class="blog-post-card__body">
+            <a href="/eu-os-funding/">
+                <h2 class="recipe-title-long">The European Union must keep funding free software</h2></a>
+            <p>Open Letter to the European Commission, initially published by petites singularités, English translation provided by OW2.</p>
+            <p class="blog-post-card__date">Published on February 24, 2023</p>
+        </div>
+    </div>
+
     <div class="blog-post-card card-overlay">
         <img
           src="/static/img/new-password.png"

project/build/eu-os-funding/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
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+    <div class="blogpost__heading">
+
+<h1>The European Union must keep funding free software</h1>
+
+
+        <h3>by Ty Myrddin</h3>
+
+
+<p class="blogpost__date">Published on July 22, 2024</p>
+
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="blogpost__image">
+
+<img
+  src="/static/img/consistency2.png"
+  alt="consistency"
+  class="blogpost__image" />
+
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="blogpost__article">
+
+<p>Original: <a href="https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI">https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI</a>,
+initially published by <a href="https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/lettre-publique-aux-ncp-au-sujet-de-ngi/">petites singularites</a>,
+    English translation provided by <a href="https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must!%5B%5D(https://)_keep_funding_free_software_open_letter">OW2</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to sign the letter, please publish the letter on your website and <a href="https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI#">complete the table below on this page</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Open Letter to the European Commission </p>
+
+<p>Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission's Horizon programme,
+fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls). This
+year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that
+Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.</p>
+
+<p>NGI programmes have shown their strength and importance to supporting the European software infrastructure,
+as a generic funding instrument to fund digital commons and ensure their long-term sustainability. We find
+this transformation incomprehensible, moreover when NGI has proven efficient and economical to support free
+software as a whole, from the smallest to the most established initiatives. This ecosystem diversity backs
+the strength of European technological innovation, and maintaining the NGI initiative to provide structural
+support to software projects at the heart of worldwide innovation is key to enforce the sovereignty of a
+European infrastructure.</p>
+
+<p>Contrary to common perception, technical innovations often originate from European rather than North
+American programming communities, and are mostly initiated by small-scaled organisations.</p>
+
+<p>Previous Cluster 4 allocated 27 million euros to:</p>
+
+<ul>
+    <li>“Human centric Internet aligned with values and principles commonly shared in Europe” ;</li>
+    <li>“A flourishing internet, based on common building blocks created within NGI, that enables better control of our digital life” ;</li>
+    <li>“A structured ecosystem of talented contributors driving the creation of new internet commons and the evolution of existing internet commons”.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects received NGI funding in the first 5 years, backed
+by 18 organisations managing these European funding consortia.</p>
+
+<p>NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to fund third parties by the means
+of open calls, to structure commons that cover the whole Internet scope - from hardware to application,
+operating systems, digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not renewed
+in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for research and innovation in Europe.</p>
+
+<p>Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone countries as well as
+    “widening countries” [1], currently both a success and an ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before
+us. NGI also contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project funding does.
+It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing collaboration, identification and reuse of
+common elements across projects, interoperability in identification systems and beyond, and setting up
+development models that mix diverse scales and types of European funding schemes.</p>
+
+<p>While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to develop software and
+    infrastructure that massively capture private consumer data, the EU can’t afford this renunciation.</p>
+
+<p>Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design the opposite of potential
+vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our data local and favors a community-wide economy and
+know-how, while allowing an international collaboration.</p>
+
+<p>This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the challenge of technological
+sovereignty is central, and free software allows to address it while acting for peace and sovereignty in
+the digital world as a whole.</p>
+
+<p>In this perspective, we urge you to claim for preserving the NGI programme as part of the 2025 funding programme.</p>
+
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="blogpost__article">
+        <hr>
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+            that very purpose. Faint traceries of blue fire crawled across the bookcases and there was a sound, a
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