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2 October 2026

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NOSTRADAMUS Horizon Europe Open Call offers up to €50,000 per project for open-source digital tools in farm decision-making Five projects will be selected to develop, test and validate applications focused on cereal-based systems and food security, each receiving the grant plus 12 months of infrastructure access, mentoring and milestone-based sprint payments. Single-entity applicants must be an SME, start-up or small mid-cap in an eligible country, with RTOs and academia permitted as a second consortium partner — deadline is 2 December 2026 at 17:00 CET. 🔗 Source

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The Perl & Raku Foundation runs a rolling community grants program with no stated funding ceiling — open year-round for language and ecosystem work Applicants can submit proposals at any time covering Perl or Raku improvements, documentation, tutorials, and related ecosystem contributions. Proposals require defined deliverables, a schedule, and a USD amount submitted via Google Form, with the grant committee convening every two months to review requests. 🔗 Source

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3 October 2026

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PHP Foundation opens 2027 core development contractor applications — deadline October 20 Work is fully remote and async, covering security patches, issue triage, PR review, and under-resourced extension areas. Open to any developer legally eligible to receive funds via the Open Source Collective, excluding OFAC-sanctioned territories. 🔗 Source

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Open Science NL opens 2nd round of Open Science Infrastructure Programme with up to €1.7M per proposal, letters of intent due November 3, 2026 Consortia of at least three institutions can apply for a share of the €17M pool to build software, workflows, platforms and data services for open science. An optional orientation session takes place October 26, 2026 in Utrecht, with full proposals due April 13, 2027. 🔗 Source

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OpenStreetMap US Microgrants offer up to $500 for member events, travel and education Rolling applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, though approval may take up to three months. Funding covers US-based or US-focused activities, with membership requirements varying by category. 🔗 Source

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5 October 2026

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FreeCAD Project Association Q3 2026 grant results Morten Vajhøj will be awarded EUR 2,000, João Matos EUR 4,000, and Amritpal Singh EUR 3,360 from the separate Ondsel Onwards fund. 🔗 Source

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6 October 2026

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Omarchy launches $100,000 bug bounty program on HackerOne The Omacom Foundation funded the program with USD 100,000 for bounties, covering the Omarchy repository with rewards of USD 250, USD 750 and USD 1,500 for medium, high and critical findings; upstream vulnerabilities are out of scope for monetary reward. 🔗 Source

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7 October 2026

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Invest in Open Infrastructure published its 2026 State of Open Infrastructure report The report analyzed more than US$663 million in open infrastructure grant funding across 1,065 award clusters, 47 funders and 94 open infrastructures from 2021-2026. 🔗 Source

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Vultr Open Source Credits Program Vultr launched the program on October 6, 2026: infrastructure credits for actively maintained open source projects under an OSI-approved license. Tiers: Starter (100+ stars) $500/year, Growth (1,000+ stars) $2,500/year and Flagship (10,000+ stars) up to $30,000/year. Everyone starts at Starter; Growth and Flagship credits are allocated after a usage review. Credits are valid for 12 months, apply to Vultr core cloud services only, and exclude GPU products. Commercial products with an open source component are not eligible. Apply at discover.vultr.com/open-source-credits or email [email protected]. 🔗 Source

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GNOME Bug Bounty Program results and close The program awarded €183,900 in bounties for 71 vulnerabilities: 45 in libsoup, 23 in GLib, and 3 in glib-networking. 🔗 Source

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European Commission grants EUR57 million to GENCODE, UniProt and Europe PMC The European Commission is providing €57 million through three Horizon Europe grants for open life-science data resources run by EMBL-EBI and partners: GENCODE (€19 million), UniProt (€30 million) and Europe PMC (€8 million). 🔗 Source

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Gem Fellowship 2027 The Gem Fellowship, a grant partnership between gem.coop and Contributed Systems, funds maintainers of existing Ruby open source tools with $2,500 to $25,000 USD per project; applications open December 1, 2026. 🔗 Source

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Google OSS VRP pauses product-vulnerability submissions As of October 1, 2026, Google is no longer accepting product vulnerabilities submitted to the OSS VRP. Supply-chain compromise reports remain in scope across Google-owned open source repositories. 🔗 Source

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DigitalOcean sunsets Open Source Credits Program DigitalOcean said it is no longer accepting new credit applications or approving credit renewals, extensions, or additional credit requests; credits already granted will continue to be honored according to their existing terms and conditions. 🔗 Source

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9 October 2026

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Snorkel AI expanded Open Benchmarks Grants to a $30M commitment The program supports researchers, domain experts, and open-source teams building open evaluation benchmarks, with rolling acceptances open and 25+ open benchmarks funded or in development since launch. 🔗 Source

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Open Technology Fund Surge and Sustain Fund is accepting applications Applications opened September 28, 2026 and the deadline to submit is October 15, 2026. 🔗 Source

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Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernisation opened the first Digital Tech-to-Product funding call Up to €5 million per project for single or consortium experimental-development projects of up to 24 months that take digital technologies toward market readiness, with startups and SMEs as a main target. 🔗 Source

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10 October 2026

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Syntax has $100K to give away to open source maintainers, funded by Sentry The web development podcast is asking for suggestions and nominations. No deadline, nomination form, or per-maintainer amount is stated. 🔗 Source

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SpaceXAI pledges $1.5M in Grok tokens to the Omacom Foundation for Omarchy SpaceXAI joins as a Founding Corporate Patron, and the tokens will help power Omarchy's automated agents, such as Omabot, which reviews incoming pull requests. 🔗 Source

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Social Web Foundation Fediverse Multimedia Grants: up to $20,000, due November 4, 2026 Applications are only for developer/creator teams and are submitted through the SWF grants portal. 🔗 Source

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11 October 2026

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ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants 2026 Funds US-based humanities and interpretive social science scholars ($50,000–$100,000) to develop digital projects on justice, with any software built released under an open-source licence in a public repository. 🔗 Source

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12 October 2026

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Processing Foundation Fellowship 2027 The Processing Foundation Fellowship Program returns in 2027, with fellows receiving a $10,000 stipend over an eight-month fellowship, plus mentorship, workshops, public programs and community engagement opportunities. Nominations, including self-nominations, are open October 7 through November 1, 2026, and every 2027 fellowship project must build on one of Processing Foundation's open-source projects, such as p5.js or Processing. 🔗 Source

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CHARTED Fund 2: up to £12.5k per community activity for UK research software and data CHARTED's Fund 2 supports community activities for UK-based researchers and digital research technical professionals working with research software, research data and research computing infrastructure. Costs such as venue hire and catering are covered at 80% FEC, staff time is allowed, and equipment is not eligible. Applicants can be based at UK universities or UK-based non-profit organisations. The next application deadline is 15th November 2026. 🔗 Source

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CSA research note on open-source disclosure strain and bounty design The Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety Initiative published "When Discovery Outruns Remediation: Open-Source Disclosure Strain" with "Published: 2026-10-07." The note says, "In our assessment, per-finding bounties are poorly matched to cheap discovery," and that "Alternatives that merit evaluation include payment for validated fixes rather than reports, reputation-gated submission rights, shared de-duplication services across tool vendors, and funding for maintainers as ongoing capacity rather than per-bug rewards." 🔗 Source

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13 October 2026

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UNICEF Femtech Ventures second call: up to US$100,000 for open-source femtech startups (apply by Nov 4) — Up to US$100,000 in equity-free funding, deadline 2026-11-04 UNICEF Femtech Ventures, a five-year initiative (2025–2030) of the UNICEF Venture Fund, is seeking applications for its second annual cohort of companies using frontier technologies such as AI, machine learning, blockchain or data science to build open-source solutions for the health, wellbeing, and sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and women. Selected companies receive up to US$100,000 in funding, 12 months of technical mentorship and access to UNICEF's global network. 🔗 Source

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