The EU has been heavily involved in #opensource for years – but planned changes to the flagship funding programme are ruffling some feathers, especially because they have remained vague for months.

@netzpolitik_feed is publishing an internal document that at least gives a few hints to where the journey might be going, especially in terms of money. Also being debated: Changes to procurement and a new legal form for open source organisations.

#ngi #ngiforum25 #eu

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-internet-stack-the-eu-commissions-vague-plans-for-open-source/

ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.

However, we have had to rescind our proposal because it was flagged for DEI content, namely, for “the retention of underrepresented students, which has a limitation or preference in outreach, recruitment, participation that is not aligned to NSF priorities.”

Since we are no longer in the running for this funding, we are actively seeking donors and a cohort of funders who align with our mission and core values and want to support our work.

Find out in this blog post announcement how you can help us by making a recurring donation, or reaching out to potential donors on our behalf, or connecting us with potential donors and program officers, or collaborating with us to apply for grants, and many other ways you can support our mission: https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/

Very proud of, and sad for, our friends at @thecarpentries for turning down a $1.5M #NSF grant rather than abandon their values. The (illegal) demands that they abandon DEI work were fundamentally at odds with their mission, and they made a hard and principled choice.

Click through for ways you can support them, financially or otherwise.

https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/announcing-withdrawal-of-nsf-pose-proposal/

Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on ... the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by PCI/PCI RR https://osf.io/tn8mh

This is a deeply problematic decision!

This decision is not only PCI-hostile. It has far-reaching preprint-hostile consequences.

I hope this is all based on a big misunderstanding that Wiley will soon be able to resolve. Wiley should rapidly rectify its highly problematic decision.

@cwts @RoRInstitute @MetaROR @PeerCommunityIn

"On the Value of Being Unorthodox: Resilience in a Time of Hostility against Arts and Sciences"
The slides of my ignition talk for #oscibar2025 can be found here:
https://hu.berlin/oscibar2025 and on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15688618

And also via BitTorrent^^
https://sciop.net/uploads/f4411cececdf1bc7b49146437e0fffdf2d862bced2f210e71ca4d3bdbeb2dbbe

#OpenScience #SafeguardingResearch

Today we are at Open Science Barcamp in Berlin #WikimediaDE 🌻

😎 Lots of interesting sessions and discussion going on

👉 https://www.barcamp-open-science.eu/

#oscibar #oscibar2025

1,6 miljard bezuinigen op onderwijs is een politieke keuze. Met enorme schade.

Daarom dienen we dit amendement in. Het draait de bezuinigingen terug mét financiële dekking (dus geen gratis bier).

Het is nu aan politici die zéggen niet te willen bezuinigen: voeg daad bij woord!