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Re:One Year of Sponsored Servo Development on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:04AM (#49740138)
Yes, it's absolutely true. We used to provide internet connectivity and fund open source projects with the profits. Now we fund open source projects as a service and from donations.

https://nlnet.nl/foundation/history/

Re:One Year of Sponsored Servo Development on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:34AM (#49739293)
NLnet has been sponsoring large blocks of Servo development as well. Filter with 'servo' in the list here: https://nlnet.nl/project/
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:21AM (#49523176)
Rust developer/software engineer at NLnet foundation in Amsterdam

You will join the team responsible for the development and operation of the (Rust based) backend through which we administer our open source grant programmes, and which integrates with our website.

https://nlnet.nl/foundation/jobs/developer-rust.html

Re:Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize on Thursday April 18, 2024 @05:39PM (#40081013)
We helped organizing the prize. BlueHats are civil servants who promote free and open source in public institutions. French BlueHats wanted to place FOSS maintainers in the spotlight because, as is well known, too few resources go that way. So they partnered with us to organize the prize together.