The Sovereign Tech Fund is a new funding program for critical free software infrastructure by the German government. As part of this, members of the GNOME community have been working on fixing important issues across the free desktop stack. This includes security, accessibility, maintainability, hardware support, and more.
In this talk Sonny and Tobias will give an overview of how we organized the project, the work done as part of it, and the massive impact a relatively small amount of public money can have on making the free desktop better.
