I follow getonepass.eu on LinkedIn as it is the main gateway for EU funding.

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@FediThing @onepict risks creating a vicious circle where all the funding goes to "tech bro" friendly projects, normal people don't even want the services from them, and stay with GAFAM etc

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@mxfraud in the meantime it's going to cut onto a lot of FOSS funding if the NGI ecosystem doesn't get renewed or even if it does the year after.

Like there will be money on the table for FOSS in the EU through to 2027. That's the current tranch across all the NGI funds and third parties. Which includes support for projects through @review

Librecast on building the next-generation internet: “The code we create and the tools we use can help or harm humanity. We write our political values into our code”

This month we speak to Esther Payne, community manager and privacy advocate at Librecast. The organisation develops free and open-source (FOSS) software to enable multicast transmitting data to groups simultaneously without depending on a centralised structure.

Association for Progressive Communications (www.apc.org)

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@mxfraud But no new tranch means nothing beyond it and we're having to apply through onepass. If any of the FOSS projects fit the funds posted on there.

I think it's going to be extremely slim pickings.

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

@vfrmedia @onepict

If the end goal of a techbro is to be bought out by a larger company for a massive payoff, then guess it doesn't matter if people use their services or not?

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@vfrmedia @FediThing yep. As I said in my sustainability post on my blog, we need mutual aid for FOSS.

A Few thoughts on FOSS Sustainability

(www.onepict.com)

Although frankly I want UBI.

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@FediThing @vfrmedia And here's where we get the BBC navel gazing going why are there no Google's in the UK?

Like every 10 years. Draghi just answered it for you folks. The unicorns leave for the US.

EU ‘needs €800bn-a-year spending boost to avert agonising decline’

Report by Mario Draghi calls for additional investment to regain growth and prevent social unrest

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

"The report highlighted how 30% of EU startup businesses that had grown to be valued at more than €1bn – known as unicorns – had moved abroad, and mostly to list on stock markets in the US."

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@onepict @FediThing

But do we *want* companies that constantly seek "less regulation" and sell peoples data like in USA?

Also China often subsidises companies which make advanced garage equipment (both for conventional ICE cars and EVs) or relatively mundane items such as tools, electrical goods, small form factor general purpose computers.

Items that *everyone* can make use of..

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@vfrmedia @FediThing I don't want companies like that, but there's a certain class of BBC tech reporter from the earlier days that seems to be breathless in reporting about creating that sort of company in the UK.

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@vfrmedia @FediThing But it's also the soft acknowledgement of power.

Some people in the UK want the power of tech in the hands of people they know, who they went to school with etc.

Power and the class of people used to wielding it are wedded.

Which we should always push back against and question why that power is there and who has it.

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@onepict @FediThing

I suspect they want to go back to the days of Acorn, ICL etc (although ARM is still around, and helps makes plenty of surveillance kit, we even sell ARM-enabled cameras to the Chinese for traffic monitoring!)

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

@vfrmedia @onepict

I think ARM got sold off to the Japanese, by a pro-Brexit UK government

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@FediThing @onepict it did, and the Japanese also own ICL (now rebranded Fujitsu for some years), but they (like Nissan) are still viewed as "British" companies as they have HQ and staff here..

Aral Balkan

@onepict *sigh* Why is everything so shit?

Loops 🍑 :audhd: :ir:

@onepict one thing I learned working in a startup was that, no matter how much everyone thought it was cheesing it, the most important part of being financially successful is usually the “exit” - being bought, dissolved and sold for parts, merging with another.

The products rarely make, or have potential to make, as much as a favourable exit. An unfavourable one has the same consequences as it would going bankrupt selling stuff. The incentive is in the system.

@FediThing @vfrmedia

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

@aral I think it's the results of the last 50 years of political choices.

But also I blame Richard the Second and Wat Tyler's followers who chose to stop their revolt and believe the lying grifter king.

But it's folks preferring the status quo, who choose not to question power, or the systems that are being put in place, another form of power, backing up Centuries of white supremacy. To create neo feudalism.

Just .

raganwald 🍓

@loops @onepict @FediThing @vfrmedia

Every business has two stories it sells. One is about what its product will do for its customers and how this will change its markets.

The other is about what its equity will do for investors, and while every startup spends a lot of time on this story, the ones that focus on it at the expense of its own customers are not happy places to work.