Security News > 2020 > April > Mozilla will fund open source COVID-19-related technology projects

Have you come up with hardware or software that can help solve a problem that arose from COVID-19 and its worldwide spread? Mozilla is offering up to $50,000 to open source technology projects that are responding to the pandemic in some way.

Online "Hackatons" - launched/sponsored by governments and various organizations in Poland, Estonia, China, the UK, Switzerland, India, Malaysia, and so on - are gathering participants from different sectors and with different skills to collaborate and come up with IT-based open source solutions to COVID-19-related medical, social and other problems.

The COVID-19 Solutions Fund for open source technology.

"As part of the COVID-19 Solutions Fund, we will accept applications that are hardware, software, as well as software that solves for secondary effects of COVID-19," the organization explained.

This fund is part of the Mozilla Open Source Support Program, so only projects which are licensed for use under an open source license according to the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative can apply for funds.

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