Newsletter: Open Source Week in Brussels, Job Openings, Event Videos

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This month, we’re sharing updates around EU Open Source Week events in Brussels, a reminder about several open positions we’re hiring for, as well as highlights and videos from the Bug Bounties and FOSS report launch last autumn.

If you’d like to find out about these updates as they happen, you can find the Sovereign Tech Agency on Mastodon, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.

This week, several members of the team will be at the many “EU Open Source Week” events in and around Brussels. You can catch up with us at

• Software Heritage Summit: Tara Tarakiyee
• CHAOSScon: Paul Sharratt, Theresa Röcher, Mirko Swillus, Tara Tarakiyee
  • Don’t miss Paul’s presentation, “Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding for FOSS” at 9:45am
• EU Open Source Policy Summit: Adriana Groh, Theresa Röcher, Paul Sharratt
  • Adriana Groh will be speaking on the “High-Level Panel: What can Open Source do for Europe?” at 9:20am
• FOSDEM: Tara Tarakiyee, Mirko Swillus, Paul Sharratt
  • We’re co-hosting a devroom, Funding the FOSS Ecosystem, on Sunday 2 Feb 2025 with FSFE, Linux Foundation, NLNet, Probabl.ai, Prototype Fund, and Andriy Utkin
  • Mirko will be presenting at 13:10: “Funding FOSS together: Combining public and private efforts”
  • With the Linux Foundation Europe, we’re supporting the side event “Code, Chat & Chill” on Saturday 1 Feb 2025 at 6pm: registration
• FOSS license and security compliance tools workshop: Tara Tarakiyee

Not too far from Brussels, Paul Sharratt will also be at State of the Open in London, UK, 4 - 5 February 2025.

Tech jobs with real impact are rare. We’re looking for new people to join the Sovereign Tech agency team and strengthen digital infrastructure in the public interest! We are currently accepting applications for the following positions:

• Back-Office/Administration Manager
• Cybersecurity Program Lead
• Program Manager
• Technical Program Manager
• Technologist

If you know people who might be interested, please share these jobs with them! We post all positions on our jobs page.

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Open Positions

Last autumn, we hosted an event in Berlin to celebrate the publication of the research report, Bug Bounties and FOSS: Opportunities, Risks, and a Path Forward, commissioned as part of the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. We're excited to now share videos of the keynotes and panel, the German version of the report, and a new job opening for the program.

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