@hpod16@eupolicy.social @maumau@chaos.social @EC_NGI@ec.social-network.europa.eu unfortunately NGI allocated peanuts for FOSS projects. US and China out there allocate trillions for their tech stacks, and Europe allocates just a dozen of millions for FOSS projects and thinks that it's enough. And then they also put out their "call for evidence" for FOSS - as if all the evidence collected in all these years wasn't enough and the ball was still in our court as developers. The right ideas are there, but eligibility criteria should be thinner, funds much larger (at least by a 25x factor), and preferably raised through shared financial instruments (i.e. Eurobonds), so we don't have to dig in underfunded EU departments nor end up with a situation where the member States that can invest the most get ahead of the others, and more EU institutional accounts should be active on the Fediverse and actually respond to questions (in most of the cases it looks like institutional EU accounts are mostly mirrors of X accounts). Oh, and projects like the W social network (or whatever its name is now) should be called out for going in the exact opposite direction: we need open solutions based on open protocols, not alternative closed corporate giants.