The Register: EU Pledges €660k to Understand Open Source

"The European Union has approved a €660,000 [US$827,200] grant for FLOSSWorld, a two-year project to promote FLOSS collaboration involving 17 partners in 12 countries. The funding is part of the EU's 6th Framework Research programme.

"FLOSS stands for Free/Libre/Open Source Software, and the project aims to support research and policy development within the OSS community on a global level. This, the organisers say, will pave the way for better collaboration between the EU and developing countries on open source projects..."

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