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Van_quixote
@Vanquixote@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

#OpenSource#TaxTheTechGiants#DigitalCommons#EUSTF#PublicGoods#FLOSS #CyberResilience #linux #kde #fsfe #gnome#FOSS#EU
OpenForum Europe
@OpenForumEurope@mastodon.cloud  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🚀 OFE Publishes Landmark Study Calling on Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure through an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)

Our new report urges creation of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) to fix chronic underfunding of open source technologies – the backbone of Europe’s digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, and competitiveness.

🔗 Check it out: eu-stf.openforumeurope.org

🔗 Check out our summary: https://openforumeurope.org/ofe-launches-landmark-study-calling-for-an-eu-sovereign-tech-fund-to-secure-europes-digital-future/

#OpenSource#DigitalSovereignty#EU
Van_quixote
@Vanquixote@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

#OpenSource#TaxTheTechGiants#DigitalCommons#EUSTF#PublicGoods#FLOSS #CyberResilience #linux #kde #fsfe #gnome#FOSS#EU
MSavoritias
@msavoritias@tilde.zone  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Cooperative Development Guidelines now have a Governance Document that can be used by any Organization/Foundation/Collective/Community/Project that wants to have a governance based on participatory, equity and permacomputing/accessibility principles.

Its time for us to finally start building participatory digital commons, that are developed by the community and for the community and the Governance document is part 1 of doing just that. (Decision making and Structure will follow after this).

I am also excited to announce that @queerspark has also been listed as a collective that adopted pieces of the Cooperative Development Guidelines.

https://codeberg.org/msavoritias/Cooperative_Development_Guidelines/src/branch/main/Foundation/Governance

#xmpp #jabber #permacomputing #diversity #governance#DigitalCommons
MSavoritias
@msavoritias@tilde.zone  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Cooperative Development Guidelines now have a Governance Document that can be used by any Organization/Foundation/Collective/Community/Project that wants to have a governance based on participatory, equity and permacomputing/accessibility principles.

Its time for us to finally start building participatory digital commons, that are developed by the community and for the community and the Governance document is part 1 of doing just that. (Decision making and Structure will follow after this).

I am also excited to announce that @queerspark has also been listed as a collective that adopted pieces of the Cooperative Development Guidelines.

https://codeberg.org/msavoritias/Cooperative_Development_Guidelines/src/branch/main/Foundation/Governance

#xmpp #jabber #permacomputing #diversity #governance#DigitalCommons
NGI Commons
@NGICommons@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Is the concept of Digital Commons still relevant or just too vague?

@cnrs Centre Internet et Société recently released an in-depth study via @NGICommons exploring how digital resources are shared and governed in Europe today. 📘

With interviews and case studies
please read this sharp analysis here: https://commons.ngi.eu/2025/06/26/active-communities-of-commoners-and-relevant-commons/
#DigitalCommons#Commons

Thank you @valerian

@openfuture @OpenForumEurope
@martelinnovate
@linuxfoundation
NGI Commons
@NGICommons@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Is the concept of Digital Commons still relevant or just too vague?

@cnrs Centre Internet et Société recently released an in-depth study via @NGICommons exploring how digital resources are shared and governed in Europe today. 📘

With interviews and case studies
please read this sharp analysis here: https://commons.ngi.eu/2025/06/26/active-communities-of-commoners-and-relevant-commons/
#DigitalCommons#Commons

Thank you @valerian

@openfuture @OpenForumEurope
@martelinnovate
@linuxfoundation