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   Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:44 JST Matti Schneider

   I'm at #NGIForum25 for the next two days. There will be some live conference tooting, follow the hashtag to see more.
   You can also see the presentations live: https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/ngi-forum-2025-06-19
   If you're in Brussels, let's meet 😊

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:16 JST Matti Schneider

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     “The new triangle of innovation will be between IoT, 6G and AI” 🙄 I wonder how many times I heard that already in the last 15 years (with 3G, 4G, 5G, “cloud”, “blockchain” and even “metaverse”)
     We can just wait for one more year for the new buzzword and instead focus on actually giving money to people who deliver stuff that's useful to society.
     #NGIForum25

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:18 JST Matti Schneider

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     • Robin Berjon

     “The US is collapsing into fascism, there is war in Europe, there is war and genocide in the Middle East. This is not the time for platitudes about AI. It is time to build infrastructure for democracy. We need a commissioner for #digitalsovereignty” —
     Damn it, thanks @robin for saying it out loud!
     #NGIForum25

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:19 JST Matti Schneider

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     “We should have a very strong decrease of the administrative complexity related to funding.” — Isabelle Zablit Schmitz
     #NGIForum25

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:20 JST Matti Schneider

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     “The problem is that we don't have the institutions for industrial sovereignty, so we rely instead on project governance. So we need to think about things like levying a tax”, or in general ways to capture some of the €€ that is made at the end of the chain from #FLOSS and #DigitalCommons. — Lukasz Klejnowski
     Yep, I'm tired to have to think of business models that cost a lot to establish to capture some of the value provided to society. DPI funding should be like physical infra: tax!
     #NGIForum25

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:22 JST Matti Schneider

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     • Robin Berjon

     “Why don't we have a label for cloud providers that would redistribute a part of their revenue to the #OpenSource projects that they deploy, and make that label required for 🇪🇺 procurement? There are these companies that make a shitload of money off the work of others.” — @robin
     #NGIForum2025

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:24 JST Matti Schneider

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     “Building #DigitalCommons is not sexy. You need to clean up legacy features, update the doc, do the things no one wants to pay for” but everybody needs, and that's what NGI funding enables.
     💯
     We can get the features and most of the bug fixes by contributors and can find funding for reviewing and doing parts of that work. But the social and technical infrastructure work that is critical, nobody wants to pay for. That can be “overhead costs” for features but exhausting to fundraise.
     #NGIForum2025

     Cadu Silva :verifiedcat: repeated this.
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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:36 JST Matti Schneider

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     • DINUM [🤖]

     “The first thing we need is protection against extra-territorial laws.” Another is collaboration across 🇪🇺, with the example of 🇫🇷🇩🇪 co-production of Docs, and the upcoming EDIC which 🇳🇱 and now 🇮🇹 have joined — Stéphanie Schaer, French @dinum
     #NGIForum25

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:42 JST Matti Schneider

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     • decidim
     • OpenFisca

     “@decidim has an average of 56 commits a day, is translated in 55 languages, even though we're not a company and no one is paying us to implement anything.” — Ali Gonzalez
     The contributions come from contributors and users because they fix their own problem and there is proper coordination. That's what #DigitalCommons look like and what I'm trying to scale with @openfisca 🙂
     #NGIForum2025

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     Matti Schneider (mattisg@maly.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 04:39:43 JST Matti Schneider

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     • Project Rosenpass

     “We need some sort of 🇪🇺 crypto. We shouldn't depend on #NIST. That's what we're building, and we wouldn't have been able to do without #NGI funding.” — Karolin Varner from @rosenpass #NGIForum25 #OpenSource