Three days until applications open: On October 1st, you can apply once again for up to €158,000 in funding, coaching, consulting, and networking opportunities in class 02!
All information is already available at www.prototypefund.de/en/application
This weekend, the @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 Community Conference is taking place in Berlin! ☁️
On Saturday, @npub1dux6...qyjv will present the Prototype Fund in a lightning talk and is answering all your questions afterwards.
Come and join us!
Registration & agenda:
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Und hier kommen unsere #Job und Funding-Schätze von dieser Woche:
Das Zuse-Institut-Berlin sucht ein*e IT-Spezialist*in für digitale Langzeitverfügbarkeit, 3 Jahre befristet, in Berlin:
Our final panel today is about invisible bridges: digital infrastructure is present in all our digital interactions, yet often remains invisible.
"We're not the People who deliver the food: We build the metal wire that is used to build a bridge to have a car driven over it wich delivers the food - but this not so easy to communicate about."
With @npub1xpzt...a80p of the project sig0namectl, @npub1vua8...7mst of @npub1vjew...q05t and @npub1xmdv...qm70 of @npub1vv84...6fhk.
Our project directors Patricia Leu and Marie Kreil are now looking back on eight years of the Prototype Fund.
Among other things, they talk about the wild early years, federal travel expense laws, pizza, Lego, talks about and with the Prototype Fund, (mega) demo days & weeks, pandemic, foreign intelligence operation, open source licenses, table sizes, Wi-Fi in the mountains of India, procrastination when it comes to applications, and so much more.
We're so excited to have Jac sm Kee @npub1g4um...wjr3 at our stage!
"It is a weird time right now: We have seen how digital technology has become on of the main driver of violence. [...]
I imagine a not so far future generation asking us: What have you done about it?
The story of tech as being created to dominate over people is exhausting. It is important to be reminded, how critical, radical and revolutionary the open source idea, the community and their projects are in this context."
We are busy crafting, designing and organizing, because 29 March is approaching fast:
🎉 EIGHT YEARS OF PROTOTYPE FUND🎉
For all those who want to be there and haven't yet grabbed a free ticket - hurry up, tickets are getting scarce!
Program, tickets and all info on:
https://prototypefund.de/acht-jahre/.
Am 29.3. findet unser großes Event zu acht Jahren Prototype Fund im Festsaal Kreuzberg statt: Euch erwarten Demos, Panels, Lightning Talks sowie eine Keynote und natürlich leckeres Essen, Austausch mit ganz vielen Vertreter*innen unserer bisher fast 400 Förderprojekte und im Anschluss auch noch eine Party!
Sichert euch jetzt hier einen kostenlosen Gästelistenplatz:
https://prototypefund.de/acht-jahre/.
Our new application phase is starting *today*!
Apply now to lift your software project idea into a prototype: Receive up to €158,000 over ten months of funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research as well as coaching, consulting and networking opportunities.
The best part:
Applications are now possible in English too!
More infos on our new website:
➡️ https://new.prototypefund.de/en ⬅️
Prototype Fund is going on!
We can now officially confirm that we‘re continuing to fund #OpenSource software projects over the next 4 years.
While some things will stay the same, we‘ve also changed a lot: There’s more money for teams, new funding sums and scope. You can apply as an European team as long as one of you lives in Germany and there‘s also no need to (AI) translate your applications anymore, as they are accepted in English too.
More in our blog:
https://prototypefund.de/en/the-prototype-fund-is-going-strong/
