38C3 Community Stages

Marie-Lena Wiese

Marie-Lena studied Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies where she focused on radicalization and extremism in analogue and digital settings. Previously she worked in a project on digital forms of participation and democracy. Currently she’s working as a program manager at Prototype Fund, supporting OSS developers of public interest tech and has a deeper insight into the various challenges and needs of developing open source software sustainably.


Session

12-30
13:50
40min
Small seeds - why funding new ideas matters
Marie Kreil, Marie-Lena Wiese

More money for Free and Open Source Software - a never ending issue. In a tech world built on start-ups, venture capital and data-gathering apps, the fight for sustainable funding for ethical technology projects is a fierce one. After some big victories for FOSS funding in the last years, this talk is about the importance of not forgetting the small, underdog civil society projects.

Open Source & Platform Decay
Stage HUFF