[pmwiki-users] European Union funding for open source software and research

[Andrius Kulikauskas]

Dear Petko, Patrick and all,

I want to alert you to the NGI Zero Commons Fund set up by the European
Union
https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/guideforapplicants/
They are funding small projects ranging from 5,000 euros to 50,000 euros.
The next deadline is February 1, 2025 and then every two months.  The
application process is relatively simple.  It is designed for individuals
to be able to apply, but institutions and businesses are also welcome.
This is to fund scientific research, design and development of free and
open source software and open hardware, and lots of related activities
https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/eligibility/

"The key objective is to deliver potential break-through contributions to
the open internet. All scientific outcomes must be published as open
access, and any software and hardware must be published under a recognised
open source license in its entirety."

"Given equal proposals, inhabitants of the EU and countries associated to
Horizon Europe are given priority. However if the project is of exceptional
quality and the proposer holds unique technical expertise proposals from
outside of those geographic areas can be eligible as well — under the
condition that there is a clear European dimension."

"A human centric Next Generation Internet shall reflect the openness,
diversity and the inclusion that are at the core of European values. The
overall mission of the Next Generation Internet initiative is to re-imagine
and re-engineer the internet for the third millennium and beyond to shape a
value-centric, human and inclusive society for all. How we share and
retrieve information is an essential part of that equation."

Patrick, this may all relate to your core values
https://pmichaud.com/wiki/Pm/PmCoreValues
which relate to my own interests.

I myself, as a thinker and organizer, have used PmWiki for at least 12
years.

I am leading a small investigatory community for absolute truth, developing
a language of wisdom, Wondrous Wisdom, and a culture of investigation. I am
doing that at several wikis that run PmWiki.

https://www.e-c-o.net is where we are developing the Econet culture.  I
have customized the wiki to have a simple Chat box
https://www.e-c-o.net/wiki/Econet/Chat
which updates the page and then reads its sixth line to insert it in the
header of every page.  That's a primitive way for us to socialize as we
work alongside each other.  I also have a page
https://www.e-c-o.net/wiki/Econet/PersonalVisions
that draws values from metadata stored on pages for individuals.

I may at some point applly for funding to research how to customize PmWiki
to support a culture of thinkers and activists, or more broadly, an
independent social network.  This could include organizing and funding
coders to help with small projects such as creating or adapting cookbook
files or skins as relevant. I envisage a federated network of platforms
that share data about our values, our relationships with truth, our
investigatory questions, our commitments to the culture, and so on.  My
colleague Daniel Friedman uses Coda.  So we would be interested to combine
records from Coda and from PmWiki, for example, at least for reading.

I use PmWiki for Theory Translator https://www.theorytranslator.com where
we collect examples of conceptual structures, such as the three minds.  The
top of the page is a PHP/MySQL page that I coded and the bottom of the page
is a PmWiki for the expositions.

I use PmWiki for my websites https://www.math4wisdom.com and
https://www.ms.lt  (in Lithuanian).

I live in Lithuania and my colleague Marcus Petz lives in Finland.  Both
countries are in the European Union.  Daniel is the President of the Active
Inference Institute https://www.activeinference.institute  and that opens
up all kinds of possibilities.  They are based in California and are a
501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in the US.  Among us, Marcus is the one
who needs a job or funding.  He recently got his PhD in Social and Public
Policy.  His thesis was on community currency in rural development.  He
leads our Community Economics study group. So mutual aid or simply helping
each other is an element of our social network.  A related element is
registering the time that we are committing to our culture.
https://www.e-c-o.net/wiki/Econet/Commitments
We have participants in Kenya and in rural America so that also adds the
meaningful challenge of including in our culture those who may have limited
online access or perhaps none at all.

I have funding for myself for all of the coming year so I am avoiding
further obligations.  But we are keeping in mind this funding opportunity
and certainly taking up the knowledge engineering challenges.

If anybody is interested in customizing PmWiki to support our culture, or
simply participating in our culture, please do let me know about your
interests!

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
math4wisdom at gmail.com
https://www.math4wisdom.com
Vilnius, Lithuania
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