Replicant

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h1. Funding

h2. Funding procedure

h3. Background and rationale for funding work through the NLnet foundation

The NLnet foundation managed to get some European Union grants to fund work on privacy and trust technologies.

It's then up to individuals to apply to it, and to define tasks that can improve privacy and trust on the Internet, which then the NLnet foundation can choose to fund.

This could for instance be used to fund the advancement of software (Tor, Replicant, etc) and hardware freedom (RISC-V, etc).

The only requirement (beside improving privacy and trust) seem to be that the project needs to have an European Union component (like the people applying for the grant living in the European union, etc).

They are then paid once tasks defined and/or the deliverables mentioned in the task have been completed.

The NLnet foundation also have some resources to help pushing changes upstream and try to push the applicants into making their work as useful as possible by engaging with upstream communities.

References:

* "Fosdem Lightning talks on the topic":https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/nextgen_internet/

h3. Tasks accepted for funding by the NLnet foundation

* [[PortReplicantToAnewerAndroidVersionInitialApplication|Finish porting Replicant to a newer Android version]]

* [[FundingGraphicsAcceleration|Graphics acceleration]]

The application criteria wrere handled by the NLnet foundation.

h3. Discussions

There is "a thread about funding on the mailing list":https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/replicant/2019-January/001774.html about that

h3. Mistakes

* When submitting a task to the NLnet Foundation make sure to select a call in "Please select a call", like "NGI Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies". I for instance forgot to select the right call.

* The amount requested was too high as the grant is not taxed. The amount was changed after the submission and acceptation.

* The tasks had to be grouped in themes and not in months (like make the modem work)

* The tasks/themes need to have an amount associated on the MOU document. Though the amount can be calculated with fixed costs and hours.

h2. Porting Replicant to a Android 9

This consists in porting Replicant to Android 9 while using a kernel closely based on upstream Linux.

The graphics part is covered by another tasks also being funded.

*Status*: [[PortingToAndroid9]]

h3. Documents:

* "LaTeX source of the MOU in git":https://git.replicant.us/contrib/GNUtoo/documents/tree/NLnet/porting_replicant_to_android9

* "Signed MOU from GNUtoo":https://redmine.replicant.us/attachments/download/1656/porting_replicant_to_android9_signed_dc.pdf

* "Signed MOU from both parties":https://redmine.replicant.us/attachments/download/1655/2019-02-105_signed.pdf

* [[PortReplicantToAnewerAndroidVersionInitialApplication]]: Initial Grant application (outdated, modified later)

* [[PortReplicantToAnewerAndroidVersionInitialDescription]]: Initial wiki task description