47 Open Source Projects Receive NLnet Grants to Boost Digital Autonomy

You see that same number featured in the emails we send you (It should not happen, but if you did apply to this call and did not hear anything, do contact us) (you can click or tap on the project name to fold out additional information) KiCad is a free and open source electronics design application (EDA) that can handle everything from the most basic schematic to a complex hierarchical design with hundreds of sheets. ▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/PDK-Verilog-A-device-libraries In a context of geopolitical instability and climate challenges, with fossil fuels costs skyrocketing and energy grids struggling to meet an ever-increasing demand, renewable local energy production is not just a nice to have, but a sane path forward. ▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/reticulum-rs-daemon This project extends the existing open-source Tronex Radio Development Platform (TRDP) Software Defined Radio (SDR) by developing new hardware and gateware and software modules, with the ultimate goal of making a generic, cheap, and flexible SDR board available to makers, researchers, and amateur radio operators for experimentation. BabelBuild is an experiment with a new build unit primitive that inherits ideas from and is a superset of Nix and Bazel, enforcing isolated builds with a well-described build environment and the software builds repeatable, but it brings new flexibility and can eventually allow an entire software system to be transparent down to the compilation unit while re-using the build graph descriptions of existing build systems. The project will introduce lightweight cross-platform Slips Agents, improve continuous operation on constrained devices, develop new adaptive detection mechanisms inspired by immunology, add local containment and deception capabilities, and explore distributed AI where local models cooperate on security decisions. ▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/Scala-bootstrap AppArmor is a security feature built into Linux that restricts what each program on a computer is allowed to do, so that a compromised or misbehaving application cannot reach the user's files, passwords or the rest of the system.