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author | Özgür Kesim <oec@kesim.org> | 2025-06-18 19:12:17 +0200 |
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committer | Özgür Kesim <oec@kesim.org> | 2025-06-18 19:12:17 +0200 |
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diff --git a/stylefiles/slides/ngi-forum-2025.tex b/stylefiles/slides/ngi-forum-2025.tex index ede9af1..71740bd 100644 --- a/stylefiles/slides/ngi-forum-2025.tex +++ b/stylefiles/slides/ngi-forum-2025.tex @@ -86,18 +86,126 @@ Digital Payments via GNU Taler will help strengthen Digital Freedom \end{itemize} the core aspects. + \vfill \uncover<3>{NGI is actually great at enabling of FLOSS.} \end{frame} -\begin{frame}[c]{FLOSS Funding Challenges} - {} +\begin{frame}[c]{FLOSS} + {from 20.000ft} + +Free/Libre Open Source Software gives users the rights to +run, study, redistribute, and modify it. + +\vfill + +\pause + +We depend on it. FLOSS is \textbf{everywhere}: + +Your smartphone, your laptop, in the online services you are using, etc. + +% The philosophy of FLOSS represents a radical reimagining of how +% software - and by extension, knowledge - should be created and shared +% in society. +% +% Its impact varies dramatically across stakeholders, creating both +% opportunities and challenges that continue to evolve as our digital +% dependency deepens. +\end{frame} + +\begin{frame}[c]{The Sustainability Paradox} + {FLOSS Funding Challenges} -Current funding of FLOSS falls in four tiers +The FLOSS model creates a fundamental tension: +\begin{itemize} + \item[$+$] generates enormous value for society and the economy + \item[$-$] \alert{struggles to capture sufficient value to sustain itself} +\end{itemize} +% Funding sources like NGI are emerging - recognition that the +% traditional economic model fails to support the digital infrastructure +% we all depend on. +\end{frame} + +\begin{frame}[c]{FLOSS Funding}{The Demand Side} +\begin{description} + \item[Well-funded] projects + \uncover<2->{ + \begin{itemize} + \item Linux kernel, Kubernetes, major frameworks + \item Corporate backing, multiple revenue streams + \item 1M+ EUR annual budgets, for sure. + \end{itemize} + } + + \item[Sustainable] projects + \uncover<3->{ + \begin{itemize} + \item Popular tools with some corporate users + \item Mix of donations, contracts, sponsorships + \item 50K-500K EUR annual budgets + \end{itemize} + } + + \item[Underfunded]<alert@4-> projects + \uncover<4->{ + \begin{itemize} + \item Critical dependencies maintained by volunteers + \item Occasional small donations + \item $<$10K EUR annual budgets + \end{itemize} + } +\end{description} \end{frame} + +\begin{frame}[c]{Wake up calls}{Underfunding Desasters} +Notable underfunding desasters in the past: + \begin{itemize} + \item OpenSSL + \item xz + \item Log4j + \end{itemize} + +\textbf{Note:} all of those were severe \textbf{security incidents}! + +(Also problems of governance, individual needs etc.) +\end{frame} + +\begin{frame}[c]{FLOSS Funding}{The Supply Side} + +\begin{enumerate} + \item Large Companies + \item Goverment Grants + \item User Donations + \item Gated Revenue Channels (PlayStore, AppStore) + \item Ad Revenue + \item (Volunteers) +\end{enumerate} + +\end{frame} + +\begin{frame}[c]{A word on advertising} + +\begin{quote} +No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, +no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. + +... + +Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, +the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. +\end{quote} +\uncover<2>{\alert{\small{WhatsApp Blog}% +\footnote<2>{\url{https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t}}, +June 18th 2012}} + + +\end{frame} + + \begin{frame}{GNU Taler} {privacy preserving digital payment system} |