 Our next speaker is Michel Lénaus, and he will be talking about NGI0, a treasure trove of tech awesome. Please welcome Michel Lénaus. Hi folks, I'm very happy that you are going to spend your last hour on FOSDEM in a room with a guy talking about other people's stuff. So, just to give a very short intro where I come from, I work for a small foundation called NLNET. NLNET dates back to the beginning of the internet in Europe, and basically what we try to do is fund people that make the internet a better place. And we do so always with open standards and open source and open hardware. These are just as rough as things we funded throughout the ages. But for us, it's important to continue to keep in our mind that the internet isn't finished. It's still quite a young technology. It's half a century old, but we are still rewriting its history every day. And I actually know, at least since Snowden, that we're in quite a problematic internet as well. And meanwhile we've seen more than just whistleblowers. We've seen that actually the whole ecosystem as it has developed has become quite toxic. So Tim Berners-Lee, for instance, the guy who invented the web says, we have demonstrated that the web had failed instead of served humanity. He says the web has become a large-scale emergent anti-human phenomenon. If you know what an optimist that man is, then those are really, really strong words. And it's not just the people that made it and the people that saw it from underneath, but it's actually also something that's politically getting some traction. And this sparked something called the next generation internet. And we've been involved with that actually from an early start on. We helped write the vision for it, which we presented two years ago. And of course any vision is simplifying what needs to be done. But the three pillars that it's working towards is to make the internet something that is resilient and doesn't break. Something that's trustworthy so that you don't have to depend on any party or any commercial entity or any government to do the right thing because the technology does it by itself. And of course it has to be sustainable in terms of ecology but also sustainable in terms of economy. So the extractive practices are not part of the future that we see for the internet. Now after we wrote that vision we got a lot of awesome organizations together and we started giving out money to projects and in fact a lot of them. So currently we have over 150 projects and these range actually across all these different layers. So from trustworthy hardware all the way up to service and applications, from data and artificial intelligence all the way back to operating systems for mobile and servers, for middleware and identity projects, for software engineering, fundamental protocol improvements. And I know it's a crazy idea to attempt to summarize 150 projects in one go but I wanted to rush through this because there are so many awesome things and literally at an event like this it would be impossible for each of them to give a talk. It's just so many good stuff. So instead I'm just going to give you some pointers to projects and if you go to the link of the presentation afterwards all of them are hyperlinked so you can just easily click there. And the second thing is you're sitting here. Meanwhile we also have a drink with the projects that we're currently funding and all the other buddies which is upstairs. You're very welcome to join us afterwards. And the idea is that if you have an idea that we aren't funding yet maybe you should tell us because maybe we want to fund it. We have quite a thorough vetting but if you make it the benefits easily are worth the effort because it's quite a lightweight procedure. And of course there were 25 talks, over 25 talks. You're in FOSDM this year that are related to us. So again if you follow the link you'll find a list of them and you can see all the recording of all these wonderful talks. So I'm just going to snap and zap through these projects. Activity Pub. I guess many people know what it is so we all think that social media have become too important and too dominant that the companies behind it. So what do you do then? You commoditize it. You turn it into protocols. Activity Pub is the big candidate for that. It's a W3C standard. And so we're funding actually quite a significant amount of projects already. So Pixel Fed is, well I guess for most people something equivalent to Instagram. Funk Whale is a personal music server that connects to all of these other applications. Spritely is a distributed social network. X-Wiki is one of the best known European wikis that we have. And it will allow to ingest and put out a similar way. So we are integrating way more than what the social networks are doing. We're trying to integrate everything and that's the way we can overpower these huge companies by collaborating, making everything work together. Open Engadina is, I don't know if people know the Engadina, but it's a region that is known for, in Switzerland that is known for its small villages. It's beautiful small villages. And in order for people to be able to connect to each other in this scattered around scenery, you actually need technology. You can't say let's meet up on meetup.com or let's go to this and this website or let's put everything on Facebook. That won't work. So they're trying to add basically semantic web features to the whole ecosystem and build infrastructures and networks among these different communities. So from your local music chapel to your bed and breakfast and make everything work together in a consistent way. This course, I guess many people here will know it or use it because it's one of the best known open source discussion platforms. That is going to get activated Popeyes if that becomes a verb at one point in time. LibreCost is trying to get video streaming into this day and age without having to go through a big company that has a CDN and a big network to do it. But instead being able to do this from, well, the laptop here in front of me. And then what I really, really like is what Bill Tengelaet is doing. Bill Tengelaet is one of the largest media collections in Europe. So it's sound and vision, image and sound. It's the Dutch media archives. So they have all of the archives dating back to the very first sound recordings and they're going to put everything on PeerTube. And they will make all the content searchable by enhancing the PeerTube protocols to allow for a good search so that you can actually put up millions of hours of video on there and see if it scales. And this is not a small instance. This is the biggest media institute in the Netherlands and one of the biggest in Europe. So it's really awesome to see them adopt the standard and to contribute to the open source community around it. ForgeFed is a new project that wants to do the same thing for software repositories. We're all using different software repositories these days. So how do we make stuff work together? We can depend on everybody understanding or building reputation. You cannot build reputation on a GitHub website because GitHub steals your reputation if you understand what I mean. If you have a project and the first thing that people end up with is not your developer website but it is a website from a company that hosts your software. Just that. But it instantly takes over your search rankings because it's so big. So why not let people build reputation with their messages, with their documentation, with everything with the weakies and build reputation on top of the ActivityPub standard. And FediverseBase is a project that wants to map out all of the Fediverse so you can understand where to go. Now, in the search space we have a lot of projects because one of the two topics that we're focusing on is search discovery and discoverability. So search itself, the search project is a major and a wonderful open source project that actually is now being loaded with a lot of different projects that build on top of that meta-search capabilities. So for instance they're building a private search so you have a search engine that you can allow into your own email or your own intranet and not have to open it up to the... So you have a single search bar but you still find all the stuff that is private to you. MailPile is a well-known mail server client, a hybrid client and that will actually integrate into that private facility. NextCloud will do the very same. WebXray is a tool that you can imagine you're surfing on the web and you get... you are going to a search engine, you search for some term and you get a nice stack of results. The search engine knows that there's behind every link, there may be 25, maybe 100, maybe 600 trackers that will track every click that you have on that web page. Why is it not telling you? Well, with WebXray your search engine will tell you what it finds and it will actually say, don't show me that crazy company that has trackers from the Cayman Islands or don't show me that company that has bad behavior or show me which other sites that I visited that this company is tracking I've already looked at so that you can get an awareness of who is looking at you on the internet and that's the power of search. It's actually search engines are recommendation engines but they're also a knowledge base that we need to tap into in a far better way. We currently don't do that but within the NGI Zero program we have a lot of extra knowledge. For instance, on green hosting. If a website is hosted in a data center that is using carbon offsetting then you can favor that website. So people will get search results from ethical companies before they get... So there are 16 million results for a given search term. I can afford to get number 44 instead of just number 1 to 10 on the first page. If I say I like green hosted websites then I can just make people understand that I care about it by actually favoring projects that do green hosting. I see I have three minutes left. In search there's a lot of new stuff. So IPFS, DAT, so there's projects that we have both on the DAT protocol and on search engines within that. There's browsers that are implementing these new standards inside the browser itself so you don't need to download a separate browser and you get a programmable browser that can manage all this new information in a better way than a normal regular browser engine does. I'll skip through the search stuff because we also have some really cool applications. Silk server is a conference server that is tri-protocol so it unites SIP, XMPP, and WebRTC. E to sync is a protocol for you to have synchronized all kinds of things with other people and with your other devices without the server actually knowing. So imagine like a really sensitive use case. I'm telling a server or I'm telling my kid has a phone and if he uses the phone I turn on this feature that tracks his location because I want to know where he is but why does say a mobile operating system creator know where my kid is? It's in another country, why should he be tracking this? Well, there's ways to do this and the E to sync protocol is actually trying to... It's actually delivering this capability of doing encrypted data for everything that you need to sync with others and encrypting everything on the client side. Cryptpad is a well-known project meanwhile that delivers a collaborative editor for documents again with multiple people and again the server is as stupid as hell. It doesn't know anything and that's a really attractive feature so it allows you to host something for some people without you being able to look into their private discussions or host it for yourself. The Ferris Pell project is another one of those crazy fundamental things it's trying to make protocol proofs very simple for normal people to understand and to actually create them yourself because historically we pumped lots of protocol into the world and yet we don't verify if the protocols are good we just rely on human engineers to do that and the Ferris Pell project is able to make people design those protocol proofs themselves. Let me quickly because we run mobile operating system we fund open hardware projects and there's a lot more. I say I have 52 seconds so I'll rush a little bit. You can find all of these projects and there's 150 of them and they're all amazing. You can go to these URLs enelna.nl slash discovery enelna.nl slash pet and we just want to thank the European Commission who are fueling us to do these projects and more importantly to urge you if you have a good idea and if it's anything remotely interesting just approach us and see you can do an application in half an hour and if you don't get money you spend half an hour and if you do get money you can work with your passion for a long time. That's basically it. Thanks.