 So hello, my name is Yoram. I now want to bring a little bit of attention to the prototype fund We are Project from the open knowledge foundation in Berlin, Germany We are funded by the federal ministry for education and research and what we do is we support public interest tech We fund projects that are open source and that are good for society and that have been things in the past Like for example open MLS, which is a security protocol and I'm not a developer So I don't really understand how it works, but it makes messaging more secure. We had lots of office and collaboration projects that we funded and down from like small individual developers to like small teams we support them and What it looks like in numbers is that we have approved like over 14 million euros so far over 340 project that have been funded and per project we offer a funding of roughly 40 or like up to 47,000 and 500 euros This is depending on the project during your project proposal You say how much time you want to work and that sort of defines how much money you get But you can get up to a full-time position for six months funded with this which amounts to this amount of money So if you want to submit your project for example like next cloud for content creators You have to be registered in Germany be of legal age You have to be self-employed or pay your taxes in Germany Because the money is handed out directly to you or a GBR sort of the Organizational form that we can that we can fund when you work in a team and Very important to us is that you have to publish your project using an open-source license Because we want to like exactly what what you guys are all doing We want to support that that like open-source technology has been developed and continues to be developed and Often struggles to find funding So here are sort of the details for the current funding round you get six months of funding from March 2024 to August 2024 You work alone or in a small team We also offer you lots of opportunities to get coaching on specific skills We've seen just a couple minutes ago the importance of user experience research for example This is something where we offer coaching, but also security questions community questions And speaking of community we have a large community of people that we have funded in the past and We are always happy to bring people together who have similar interests ideas questions whatsoever So I don't only want to like do the advertisement also give you like a little bit of a take-home message If you are interested now in applying currently until the end of this month, so only two weeks left We have our current application period and when you want to apply there There are some things that are different from other funding bodies For example, we want you to use very simple and easy to understand language We don't want to hear jargon. We don't want to use business speak. We don't want to hear something complicated We don't need you to show off that you can write very sophisticated Sentences we want to understand what you want to do and Unfortunately, you have to speak German because the funding period like the main admin stuff is all done in German We have a couple of simple questions online that you that you ask. It's I think 11 questions And just read the question and ask answer them as they're asked not what you think you want to tell and Then be as precise as possible with your project idea This is very important because the better you describe what you want to do the better Our jury can decide if it's actually something that they want to fund And also look around like are there already similar solutions existing and rather extend on solutions that exist Then starting from scratch like nobody wants you to write a new next cloud rather Extend on what next cloud is doing for example and on our website. We have lots of tips and FAQs where you find more details So currently is the application period from August 1st. It started it ends in September 30s There's no first come first serve like everybody who submits within this period has equal chance We'll get screened put to our jury and then the jury decides you find all information on prototype fund.de I also put up a QR code that leads there if you have any questions I will hang around a little bit longer after this you can ask me directly You find our contact details email mustard on and all this stuff on there. Thank you, and I think next up is Julius