Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

Phoronix’s Michael Larabel reports: Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for “empowering public digital infrastructure.” In the past two years it has invested more than $24.9 million into sixty open technologies. This effort backed by the German government has provided nearly $25 million USD in open-source funding over the past two years. In this time there has been more than 500 submissions proposing over 114 million euros in work.

This Sovereign Tech Funding has helped open-source projects provide much needed maintenance to their software, enhance the security posture of the software, and make other open-source improvements in the public interest. You can learn more about the Sovereign Tech Fund via their blog.