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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:57:26 JST Aral Balkan

   • NGI Zero open source funding

   “I really like the Small Web. Thanks for NOT supporting it.”

   https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

   (We tried one more time after that, got rejected again, and then stopped wasting time with @nlnet and @NGIZero. The Small Web will launch this year with ZERO EU funding in its six years of development from NGI/NLNet. If you want to support us before it does, please see https://small-tech.org/fund-us. After we launch, we aim for it to be self sustaining. So NGI/NLNet have been and are irrelevant as far as the Small Web is concerned.)

   https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115940504761958251

   #SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #FOSS #OpenSource #EUpol #OpenSourceSustainability #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #NLNet #SmallTechnologyFoundation

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:57:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jmaris @nlnet @NGIZero Nah, I’m fine with the angry rant. Because I’m angry. Or was. As I said, they’re irrelevant now. Needed them years ago. Not when almost all the work is already done and we suffered through those years.

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     Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO (jmaris@eupolicy.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:57:24 JST Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

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     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @aral @nlnet @NGIZero Perhaps rather than writing an angry rant about failing to secure extremely sought-after EU funding, you could write some feedback saying more money is needed for vital projects?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:58:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     • NGI Zero open source funding
     • Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

     @jmaris @nlnet @NGIZero What do you think communities are comprised of?

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     Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO (jmaris@eupolicy.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:58:49 JST Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

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     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @aral @nlnet @NGIZero They are irrelevant to you individually, but not to the wider community.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 19:36:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • NGI Zero open source funding
     • Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

     @jmaris @nlnet @NGIZero Did they not have enough? Who knows? The process is entirely opaque. Public money should have a public process that’s transparent. Who are the people deciding. What are their technical qualifications? What was the deliberation that took place? Why aren’t any of these things public? Maybe I should write something more about this if I find time. But right now I have to code the thing I’m making and that’s hard enough as it is with zero funding. So I’ll get back to that.

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     Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO (jmaris@eupolicy.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 19:36:26 JST Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

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     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @aral @nlnet @NGIZero I don't represent the organisation, but i'm just saying that they have a limited amount of funding for hundreds of projects, and getting mad at them because they didn't have enough for your project is counterproductive.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 19:50:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Walter van Holst
     • Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

     @whvholst @jmaris @nlnet @NGIZero Good for you.

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     Walter van Holst (whvholst@eupolicy.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 19:50:12 JST Walter van Holst

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     • NGI Zero open source funding
     • Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO

     @aral @jmaris @nlnet @NGIZero I am not affiliated with them either. But If I were I would not fund Kitten since it is not obvious what its added value is over other microframeworks like Flask. Also, a robust internet needs less Javascript, not more.