Européen
NGI Taler
You can contribute exciting new capabilities to GNU Taler itself, build auxiliary tools or work on user experience, but you could also be developing integrations into FOSS applications and open standards (enabling P2P micropayments in for instance an instant messenger, open social media platform or video conferencing tool), or work on improvements to infrastructure components like merchant backends.
Together with the rest of the NGI, we move towards restoring and subsequently maintaining European sovereignty and to secure democratic ownership of our digital societies.
Privacy-preserving digital payments
The following types of activities qualify for financial support, provided they are cost effective and have a clear link to the topics directly relevant to TALER and the objectives set out in the call:
– scientific research
– design and development of free and open source software and open hardware
– validation or constructive inquiry into existing or novel technical solutions
– software engineering aimed at adapting to new usage areas or improving software quality
– formal security proofs, security audits, setup and design of software testing and continuous integration
– documentation for researchers, developers and end users, including educational materials
– standardisation activities, including membership fees of standards bodies
– understanding user requirements and improving usability/inclusive design
– necessary measures in support of (broad)er deployability, e.g. packaging
– participation in technical, developer and community events like hackathons, IETF, W3C, RIPE meetings, FOSDEM, etc. (admission fee, travel and subsistence costs)
– other activities that are relevant to adhering to robust software development and deployment practices
– project management
– out-of-pocket costs for infrastructure essential to achieving the above
We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro’s.
There are no categorical exclusions of persons who may not receive support from NGI TALER.
Given equal proposals, inhabitants of the EU and its associated countries are given priority, however if the project is of exceptional quality and the proposer holds unique technical expertise proposals from outside of those geographic areas can be eligible as well.
Project results must be made available under a free and open source license, so anyone can read and validate the source code, and anyone can use the code to create technology that fits their own purposes.