More individuals, organizations and companies are starting to realize the potential of open source. An important question is obviously how projects can be funded to enable individuals to subsist and work on open source full time. This document aims to be an open guide to grant funding of open source projects.
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over between 2014 and 2020. You need a consortium to apply. See Holger Krekels talk at 32c3 (link below) for a more detailed description.
http://innovationsfonden.dk/da/faq-innobooster
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https://www.internetfonden.se/om/
InternetFonden is a Swedish fund run by Internetstiftelsen i Sverige or IIS, which administer the Swedish .se TLD. Parts of the earnings from selling .se domains goes to various projects that benefit the development of internet in Sweden and one of them is InternetFonden. Since 2004 the fund has financed 323 projects for a total of 65M SEK (7.7M USD/7.1M EUR/5.2M GBP). Applicants can be companies, organizations or private people as long as they have a Swedish organization number or social security number.
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http://edgeryders.eu/en/opencare/welcome-to-opencare
OPENCARE is a project trying to figure out ways of combining modern science and technology with communities. It got funded 1.6M EUR by Horizon 2020. You can read their proposal here.
Ghost is an open source blogging platform. The project is run and organized by The Ghost Foundation, which is a non-profit organization. Ghost is completely free to use if you host it yourself. You can pay for it if you need help with hosting your blog. This is what funds further development and The Ghost Foundation calls this Sustainable Open Source.
All content submitted to this project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
