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Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda blogs
Security and liberty don't have to be opposites. I want the European Union to focus its energy and funds on projects that increase both the safety and the autonomy of its people at the same time. At my proposal, next year's EU budget will include a step in that direction:
€1 million of the EU's €40 million pilot project fund will be spent towards open source software security.
The European Union's interoperability page says
The European Parliament is funding a security audit of the free and open source solutions used by the Parliament and the European Commission. Last Wednesday, the EP allocated €1 million for the audit project, to be carried out by the EC Directorate General for Informatics (DIGIT). The project should also come up with best practices for code review and quality assessments of free software and open standards funded by the EU.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by kaszz on Thursday December 25 2014, @04:34AM
University salaries and basement dwellers might perhaps be funded this way?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday December 25 2014, @05:49AM
We want a security audit. Having the poor person pass out from lack of nutrients probably makes for poor auditing. I'm thinking living wage, which means you might put together a small team for upwards of a year.
Even going low, I don't see how you're obtaining adequate resources for the project. This is just salaries. Is it all BYOD?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.