Pilot project for standards participation

I sent this information to the hackathon and open-source lists, but it was
suggested I share a bit more widely.

Some time ago, the Sovereign Tech Agency run a survey on the ability of
open source maintainers to participate in standards work. Based on that
data, they have now developed a pilot project  for supporting open source
maintainers that want to get involved with standards.  That pilot has
launched, with the IETF as one of the targets (along with the W3C and
ISO).  Background information is here:

https://www.sovereign.tech/news/join-sovereign-tech-standards-network

along with the application details:

https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards

Here's a direct link to the application as well:

https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/sovereign-tech-standards/mXw0q0

If you know of open source folks who might be interested in this kind of
support, please share it with them.

thanks,

Ted Hardie