NLnet changes deadlines to odd months

Since 2007, NLnet Foundation has organised its open calls in a bi-monthly cadence with a recurring deadline on the first day of every even month. With some major changes — notably the Open Internet Stack taking over from the Next Generation Internet initiative after a decade — NLnet takes the opportunity to pivot its calls to the odd months to better handle planning. However, having call deadlines during the summer is suboptimal because it eats into applicants' holidays, and as submission volumes increase it is straining on our staff as well. By moving from the even months to the odd months, we avoid having calls in the middle of the summer holiday period, and on February first, which almost always coincides with FOSDEM. Obviously that does mean we should avoid having a similar problem over New Years Day, which is why we take the third day of every odd month as the basis for the new deadline schedule. 2026-10-29 - Webinar: ability of LLM-generated code by FSFE 47 Open Source Projects Receive NLnet Grants to Boost Digital Autonomy 2026-10-15