This session is intended as an informal meetup for past and future projects of the Prototype Fund and everyone who wants to discuss various aspects of Free and Open Source Software funding and sustainability.

Over the years Prototype Fund has funded a significant amount of sustainability-related software projects, from tools for a cleaner internet to self-organization apps for communities and education platforms. And of course, we want to keep supporting this kind of projects!

We're here to meet you and understand how we can help people who want to build sustainable software or tools that help educate, connect and organize around the topics addressed at Bits & Bäume. We're also here to help you understand how to get support for your project. And we love to meet people interested in talking about funding and sustainability in general.

If you consider applying or don't know how to get funding for your software project, come and ask us any questions you have! This is also a great opportunity to meet people we have funded in the past and learn from their experience.

And if we funded your project, have questions about our work or are just curious, come say hi!

About us: The Prototype Fund is a funding program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), managed and evaluated by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany.
Individuals and small teams (of freelance coders, hackers, UX designers and more) can receive funding in order to test their ideas and develop open source applications in the areas of Civic Tech, Data Literacy, IT Security and Software Infrastructure. We aim to keep innovation processes as well as infrastructures open and accessible.