Wish they would fund projects that already exist and that have years of unpaid effort already delivered. Instead they fund a bunch of prototypes that will probably go nowhere.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that even allowed for public funds?
Why would that not be allowed? There’s no limitation on nationality, the requirement is for residency.
> If your company, organisation or institution is established in the EU, you have the right to compete for a public tender in any EU country.[0]
[0]https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/public-c...
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would that not be allowed? There’s no limitation on nationality, the requirement is for residency.
> If your company, organisation or institution is established in the EU, you have the right to compete for a public tender in any EU country.[0] [0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/public-c...
This is not a tender, so the rules don’t apply. Generally, tenders would only apply to contracts where the government procures a service or good and only from certain thresholds on (~ 130 000 EUR for services), see further down on the page you linked. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/public-c...
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#14Wish they would fund projects that already exist and that have years of unpaid effort already delivered. Instead they fund a bunch of prototypes that will probably go nowhere.
That’s the entire point of the prototype fund - there’s another technology fund that funds basic open source and infrastructure.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If your company, organisation or institution is established in the EU, you have the right to compete for a public tender in any EU country.[0] [0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/public-c...
This is not a tender, so the rules don’t apply. Generally, tenders would only apply to contracts where the government procures a service or good and only from certain thresholds on (~ 130 000 EUR for services), see further down on the page you linked. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/public-c...
Right, thanks for clearing it up!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
aka 95k a year, which is just short of the magic six-figures i guess for political reasons.
Most of these kinds of funds aren't enough to be a salary at all, intended as social validation tokens for people who don't even need money.
This works out to just shy of 8000 EUR per month, enough to fund two people on an acceptable salary for that time. Folks with a sufficiently high profile could earn more on the open market, but you can live of that in most regions of germany.
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#18See also:
- The Open Tech Fund (US): https://opentech.fund/
- FOSS Host (UK): https://fosshost.org/
- The NL Net Foundation (EU): https://nlnet.nl/
- The Calyx Institute (US): https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/microgrants-and-small-pr...
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#19- French not for profit Framasoft (peertube & others) https://framasoft.org/fr/ EN version https://framasoft.org/en/
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#20Wish they would fund projects that already exist and that have years of unpaid effort already delivered. Instead they fund a bunch of prototypes that will probably go nowhere.
That's factually incorrect. Mastodon was funded by Prototype Fund this year to develop new features. Mastodon was released in 2016 and has more than 26k GitHub stars, so is quite clearly way beyond being a prototype.