<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues,<div class=""><br class="">The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund (CPF) supports projects from the RIPE NCC service region working for the ‘Good of the Internet’ with a total fund of €250,000. We opened the call for applications in June 2020. The application period was open for just over 8 weeks and more than 35 applications from 21 different countries were received.<br class=""><br class="">The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following eight projects have been selected as the 2020 funding recipients. <br class=""><br class="">Congratulations to the selected projects:<br class="">- BGP Hijacking Observatory, University of California San Diego’s Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)<br class="">- Closed Resolver Project, Grenoble Alpes University, Computer Science Laboratory (LIG Lab)<br class="">- Cryptofuzz, Guido Vranken<br class="">- FRRouting Fuzzing, Sartura d.o.o.<br class="">- Improve Tails for censorship circumvention, Riseup Labs<br class="">- NRTM v4, Sasha Romijn, DashCare B.V.<br class="">- Some Congestion Experienced (SCE), netDEF<br class="">- Virtual School of Internet Governance, Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities<br class=""><br class="">You can read more about the selected projects here:<br class=""><a href="https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2020" class="">https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2020</a> <br class=""><br class="">All projects funded through the CPF also share updates on RIPE Labs. You can find articles by previous recipients by using the ‘Community Projects Fund’ tag:<br class=""><a href="https://labs.ripe.net/" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/</a><br class=""><br class="">I would also like to thank the members of the Selection Committee for volunteering their time to support the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alastair Strachan</div><div class="">RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator </div></div></body></html>