FYI: Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS

Which kinds of projects can get funding?

    Civic Tech: building digital tools for citizens, e.g.
    New models or applications for creating, sharing and using (open) data
    Data visualization and storytelling
    Social engagement, transparency and citizen participation
    Data Literacy: apps for the use and analysis of (open) data; tools that
promote the ability to read, create and communicate data.
    Data security: code that focuses on privacy, secure communications or
data transmission and data minimisation.
    Software infrastructure: tools that enable and facilitate the operation
of software like the above.

http://prototypefund.de/?lang=en

Sounds like a good fit for some of the work in this group.

It would be great to have people, for example, creating Solid apps [1] as 6
month prototypes, as I think this aligns well with the funding goals

[1] https://github.com/solid/solid-apps