[opensource-wg] Fwd: Three Challenges to Contribute Back to Open Source

Let’s strengthen the Open Source ecosystem together!

https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/challenges/

The Sovereign Tech Fund is looking for developers who use open source 
and want to contribute back. We need a sustainable ecosystem that 
enables new software development and ensures the ongoing security of 
existing dependencies. Many more people use open source software every 
day than contribute to it. It's time to give back and invest in this 
ecosystem, to increase its security and sustainability.

In three challenges, participants can work on contributing back to open 
source for up to eight months with a budget of up to €300,000 for each 
of the four-month rounds. We’re accepting proposals starting today 
through July 6, 2023 (23:59 UTC+2).
What are the Contribute Back Challenges about?

The Sovereign Tech Fund is issuing three challenges to encourage active 
participation in open source infrastructure. With the call to 
“Contribute Back,” we are making it possible for developers, 
contributors, and maintainers to actively contribute to and work on the 
open source projects they depend on over a four to eight period.

We want to identify critical issues in the open source ecosystem and 
empower people to work on them. To do this, the Sovereign Tech Fund is 
offering short-term challenge funding for participants to explore new 
solutions and focus on implementing them over a limited period of time. 
Our goal is to use these challenges is to discover the best ways to 
strengthen the ecosystem together.

The Sovereign Tech Fund is providing up to €300,000 per application over 
a period of four months, with the possibility of a 4-month extension. We 
will support the creation and improvement of developer tooling, the 
production security of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components, 
and the documentation of critical open source infrastructure technologies.

In the challenges, the STF hopes to answer important questions, for example:

     Can better developer tooling help FOSS maintainers manage growing 
technical debt and increase test coverage to provide greater reliability 
and maintainability in the long term?
     What software production security mechanisms enable FOSS projects 
to stay open to contributions while protecting against the increasing 
threat of supply chain attacks?
     As the demand on the FOSS infrastructure increases, what 
documentation is needed to allow new developers to participate and to 
reduce the load on maintainers?

To learn more about the Contribute Back challenges, visit 
https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/challenges/

Thanks and let’s get to contributing back!

The STF Team
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