洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
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東アジアには、NLnetやNGIの様に、オープンソースプロジェクト、特にフェディバース関連のプロジェクトに資金援助する財団はないのかな？😔

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Jiajun Xu
@foolfitz@social.slat.org · Reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:

@hongminhee
Indeed, East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) currently lacks large foundations like NLnet or NGI that specifically fund open source projects.

NLnet primarily receives public funding from the EU's NGI program, while East Asian public sectors have relatively limited awareness and support for FOSS. I believe East Asian communities shouldn't overly expect "angel investments" from their public sectors;

a more realistic path might be: first strengthening through cross-national community collaboration, after which public sectors might follow with support.

These are just my rough thoughts on this topic.