From:	 Tobias Benedikt Hoevekamp <tobias.hoevekamp@ilw.agrl.ethz.ch>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: European Union supports OSS projects
Date:	 Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:00:16 +0200

Hi there, 

it's not really the latest news but still it seems to be news
since I haven't found it anywhere else yet. In the second
paragraph of http://lwn.net/2000/0203/commerce.php3 you refer
to a page of mine where I describe funding possibilites for 
OSS / FS projects via the EU's Information Society Technologies (IST)
programm.

It took a while, but the rate at which OSS projects within this programm
are launched seem to increase. 3 projects with a funding volume of 1.7 Mio Euro 
were launched in May and June 2001. They are:

   Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study

   Advanced LINUX-Based Products for Embedded Telecommunication 
   Solutions 

   Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces

I've put together additional information about both the IST programme
and the supported OSS projects under

http://www.vt.ilw.agrl.ethz.ch/~hoevekam/open-world/ist-projects.html

Perhaps this information is still good for some kind of "news"

Best regards,




Tobias Hoevekamp


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