content/news/sponsorship-update-1.md

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+title = "Sponsorship Update #1"
+author = "Ribbon and Ron Williams"
+date = "2024-06-24"
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+This is our first sponsorship report, on these reports we will report our current sponsorship status from companies and funds.
+
+## Radworks
+
+The [Radworks](https://radworks.org/) nonprofit organization sent a donation of 13,000 USD in Ethereum using the [Drips Network](https://drips.network/) to fund the development of the [termion](https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion) library.
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+The [Radicle](https://radicle.xyz/) project is funded by this organization, it aims to offer a decentralized (peer-to-peer) Git hosting.
+
+Similar to how the BitTorrent protocol works, where people download and upload pieces of files to other people.
+
+## Nlnet
+
+The Nlnet nonprofit organization accepted our proposal to the NGI Zero program to improve the POSIX support on Redox.
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+You can see the project on [this](https://nlnet.nl/project/RedoxOS-Signals/) link.
+
+## Join us on Matrix Chat
+
+If you want to contribute, give feedback or just listen in to the conversation,
+join us on [Matrix Chat](https://matrix.to/#/#redox-join:matrix.org).