Following Germany's [1]Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government.

The Sovereign Tech Fund [2]notes that the FFmpeg project is receiving €157,580.00 for 2024 and 2025.

An announcement on the [3]FFmpeg.org project site notes:

"The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the [maintenance] of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source software multimedia component essential to bringing audio and video to billions around the world everyday."

Exciting news and great continuing to see the significant investments across many open-source projects being made by the Sovereign Tech Fund.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Sovereign+Tech+Fund

[2] https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/ffmpeg

[3] https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#stf24