I'm one of the board member of the KDE e.V. I'm super pleased to see this news finally out in the public and that the German government decided to strategically invest in KDE and open source in general. If anyone has a question about this, shoot away.
Are any of the things being worked on in the scope of this grant reusable outside of KDE? From the post itself it seems mostly just directly KDE stuff (instead of possibly imporving some "more foundational" thing, e.g. some kernel API, Wayland protocol or similar that KDE wants to make use of but doesn't exist).
Super great news. KDE created the best desktop environment there is and so many awesome free software. Great to see governments supporting it. More governments should stick to the Public Money means Public Code.
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