Hi! Ekaitz Zarraga <eka...@elenq.tech> skribis:
> On 2024-07-21 01:15, Juliana Sims wrote: >> Greetings comrades, >> As many of you are likely already aware, the European Union has >> recently made plans to cut funding to its Next Generation Internet >> (NGI) initiative which funds hundreds of FOSS projects, including >> many related to Guix itself. The current plan is to shift these >> funds into artifical intelligence research. >> Petites Singularités has started an open letter to call on the EU to >> restore this funding. I would very much support Guix signing onto >> it. The document, and instructions for participating in this effort, >> can be found here: https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI >> For full disclosure, my work on the Shepherd is funded by NGI >> through NLnet. While my funding is secure, it would be a tragedy if >> the opportunity which I have been given to build something really >> cool and (I hope) revolutionary were denied to others. >> In solidarity, >> Juli > > I signed the open letter myself. > https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/ > > And we are discussing about writing something in Guix about this, too. Yes. We’re waiting for feedback from Guix maintainers but I think it would make a lot of sense to publish the letter on the Guix blog. As a reminder, Guix has directly benefited from several NGI-funded projects, and indirectly with support for Mes, the RISC-V port of the bootstrap chain, Shepherd/Spritely, and Guile. Ludo’.
