Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of SponsoringPrograms/STF/2025

Timestamp:

Jul 29, 2025, 8:49:28 PM (12 months ago)

Author:

Pierre-Anthony Lemieux

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SponsoringPrograms/STF/2025

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 The [https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/programs/applications Sovereign Tech Fund] invests globally in the open software components that underpin Germany's and Europe's competitiveness and ability to innovate.
 
+As summarized on their web page:
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+> The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in open digital base technologies that are vital to the development of other software or enable digital networking. We invest in projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem. Examples include libraries for programming languages, package managers, open implementations of communication protocols, administration tools for developers, digital encryption technologies, and more. We do not finance the development of prototypes. Our currently funded projects show the range and type of technologies that characterize open digital base technologies.
+> [The Sovereign Tech Fund is] currently not looking for user-facing applications, such as messaging apps or file storage services.
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 The FFMPEG community secured [https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/STF/2024 STF funding activities in 2024] and plans to do so again this year.
 
-If you are interested in being included in the application, please email the information specified in the template below to:
+If you are interested in being included in the application and believe your project fits the criteria above, please email the information specified in the template below to:
 * Michael Niedermayer (michael-stf@niedermayer.cc)
 * Thilo Borgmann (thilo.borgmann@mail.de)