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All, there is an opportunity to get funding for open-source projects via the Next Generation Internet framework by the European Commission. Send in your ideas. Deadline February 1, 2025. For example, the federated social network Mobilizon is partly funded by this program.

LInks:
[1] https://nlnet.nl/core/
[2] https://nlnet.nl/project/Mobilizon-UX/
[3] https://ngi.eu/
[4] https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

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Hypolite Petovan
@Wilmar Igl, PhD Friendica funding is exclusively done by sending chocolate to @Michael Vogel
Michael 🇺🇦
We don't have got that many costs, so I'm unsure what we should do with a funding.
Wilmar Igl, PhD
Apologies for my capitalist thinking! Maybe buy even more chocolate!?
BTW, Mobilizon as an event-focused social network also uses ActivityPub, looks interesting! Still exploring ...
Michael 🇺🇦
What we would need is additional development power.
Wilmar Igl, PhD
Pay someone? Per hour? Per bug fix/feature?

If you are looking for volunteers, I recommend showcasing Friendica at a booth at some developer (esp PHP)/opensource conference, eg 38C3, Dec 27-31 in Hamburg or similar, BITCOM, ... to attract talent.
Hypolite Petovan
@Wilmar Igl, PhD @Michael Vogel This is very sensible, but needs a lot of work to yield any benefits. In particular, we don’t have any project management skills to handle paid work.
Wilmar Igl, PhD
I agree, a lot of work. I suggest targeting a relevant PHP/social media conference in 2025, which is located close to one of the FRIENDICA devs, team up with another ActivityPub org, which you are friendly with (MASTODON, Pleroma, Diaspora?). There is a bit of a competitive situation, but since you require a different skill set (PHP vs Ruby on Rails etc) this could work. The minimal solution would be just print a few hundreds of flyers and ask another organisation you are friendly with to put it on the table at their booth.

Another idea would be to approach IT departments at universities and ask lecturers for collaboration to hand out bug fixes/feature development to students as homework, seminar thesis, master thesis, etc. This would require some supervision, but ideally would get them "hooked" on the project.
Michael 🇺🇦
I'm mostly unable to organize anything like this, I must confess.
Wilmar Igl, PhD
First step would be to create some promotion material, ie flyers, slide deck, and short video, etc and post it on other social networks to target groups, ie X.com, Tiktok, Mastodon, Facebook, ...

BTW, I would not only look for dev skills, but also management skills/tech evangelists, which a thriving organisation needs.

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