Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd

[DumbFsck]

These projects need to apply for the grants. They haven't and that's entirely on them.

Does this check out,ngraham ?

[J.King]

For PHP, the Sovereign Tech Fund is committing €205,000.00 to help improve the sustainability and security of PHP. PHP developers will be using this STF money to overhaul their PECL extension distribution system, make more improvements to PHP's security and auditing its codebase, improving the PHP documentation, and more development around testing tools.

If they can make PECL not complete shit, fine, but that smells like a waste of money to me. As long as extensions must be installed system-wide, you're always going to have the OS wanting to manage them.

[Fanboy80]

Thank you Subversive Tech Fund, everything is fine and dandy.

[hyperchaotic]

If we examine the funding targets more closely, we can see that these are mostly free desktop infrastructure technologies.
As such they are available to all of the desktop products, whether they are from GNOME, KDE or any other community or vendor.

The GNOME Foundation is simply providing the legal entity the STF can deal with.

This is neither uncommon nor GNOME specific.
The Apache Foundation, the Linux Foundation, KDE e.V. and so on, have also served in such roles before.

Indeed, this is all good. AccessKit for example is used by COSMIC and other projects already.

[pizzapill]

Perhaps fund LibreOffice Wayland Skia Vulkan or Okular/Evince to be more on par with Adobe/PDF-XChange? Would this make too much sense for spending tax money on it?

At the start of this month the German state of Schleswig-Holstein announced that it'll move from MS Office/Windows to Libre Office/Linux. This will probably bring more ressources to Libre Office on a ongoing basis than a one time payment via the STF.

[ngraham]

How much more did they piss away into GNOME? The article doesn't mention it.

As far as I can see, this press release is simply mentioning their existing investment in GNOME, not announcing any new funding.

[You-]

There are some extremely bitter people on these forums

[Hans Bull]

There is nothing "sovereign" about that organization, as is it apparently excusively funded by marxist-ridden greenparty german ministery of "climate action". Just in case anyone wonders about the many clueless wimmmin in the "About STF" section on their website.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

At the start of this month the German state of Schleswig-Holstein announced that it'll move from MS Office/Windows to Libre Office/Linux. This will probably bring more ressources to Libre Office on a ongoing basis than a one time payment via the STF.

This was supposed to happen somewhere else in Germany many years ago. In the end they bailed on the idea and stayed with Windows / Office. We'll see if it actually sticks here.

[Hans Bull]

At the start of this month the German state of Schleswig-Holstein announced that it'll move from MS Office/Windows to Libre Office/Linux. This will probably bring more ressources to Libre Office on a ongoing basis than a one time payment via the STF.

LOL. You clearly didn't follow the LiMux saga in Munich, did you?