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We're thrilled to announce the nine FOSS teams selected for the STF #ContributeBackChallenges! We received 70 applications from 20 countries, proposing 9.8m€ of work. Let's meet the projects who will receive a total of €1,363,600 for work in 3 areas.
Prefer to see all of them at once? 👉 https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/challenges/#selected-participants-first-round
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Rusty SBOMs / CycloneDX Module for Rust (Cargo)
https://stackable.tech/
Repository: https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-rust-cargo
For the Rust ecosystem and the CycloneDX standard, the cyclonedx-rust-cargo project is emerging as the standard for creating Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs). This project enhances software production security in the Rust ecosystem by contributing to the production-readiness of this common Software Bill of Materials generator.
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The third of the #ContributeBackChallenges is "FOSS Infrastructure Documentation," to create comprehensive documentation for the most critical and widely-used FOSS infrastructure projects.
Congratulations to the two teams working on better documentation!
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OpenPGP documentation for application developers
Repository: https://codeberg.org/heiko/openpgp-notes
OpenPGP serves as a building block for secure personal communication, including in email and messaging software. This project provides OpenPGP documentation for application developers, for the upcoming “OpenPGP crypto-refresh” version of the standard.
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Nix ecosystem supply chain security https://nixos.org
Nix is an open source build system, configuration management system, and mechanism for deploying software, focused on reproducibility. With Nixpkgs and @nixos_org it supports the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world. Reinforcing the project’s security framework across the full software development life cycle provides safer defaults for users and eases industry adoption.
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Securing Apache Airflow https://airflow.apache.org
Apache Airflow is a top-level Apache project and a pivotal component in the Python ecosystem. It is the go-to solution for workflow orchestration, enabling data scientists and engineers to schedule and execute complex data pipelines. Enhancing its security model will provide a safe, state-of-the-art workflow orchestration tool.
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RuntimeTypeInspector.js https://runtimetypeinspector.org
RuntimeTypeInspector.js is a tool that allows JavaScript projects of any kind to enable runtime type checking. Checking data types efficiently eliminates unseen runtime errors that can crash an application.
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The next of the #ContributeBackChallenges is “Securing FOSS Software Production,” working on securing the entire production of FOSS, from source code to binary distribution.
Congratulations to the three teams in this section!
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@openwebdocs https://openwebdocs.org/
compat-data
Open Web Docs helps to maintain open web documentation and the tools that support this documentation. By documenting accurate compatibility data for web technologies, web developers can more easily create websites that are compatible with many different web browsers.
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The first of the #ContributeBackChallenges is “Improving FOSS Developer Tooling” to contribute the development workflow for FOSS infrastructure projects.
Congratulations to the four teams for this area!
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conda-store https://conda.store/en/latest/
conda-store is a FOSS tool for managing data science environments in collaborative teams. It provides flexible yet reproducible environments while enforcing best practices throughout an environment’s life cycle. Integrating conda-store into the conda ecosystem, adding multi-platform support, & improving maintenance & contribution workflows advance the long-term sustainability & accessibility of these essential resources for the broader Python community.
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Haskell Cabal https://www.haskell.org/cabal/
Cabal is the build system and package manager for the Haskell programming language. Creating maintainable architecture for Cabal and streamlining its build system strengthens the Haskell language ecosystem.
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