This week, I went to the Next Generation Internet (NGI) breakout session at OW2'con in Paris, and the NGI Forum in Brussels. NGI, the EU initiative that has been funding Spectrum since the beginning, is ending in 2027, so my main aim in attending these events was to learn about what might replace it and what other funding opportunities are available, to ensure that Spectrum can keep going. Having made a lot of connections and learned a lot (even though nothing seems to be nailed down yet, even at the EU level), I feel more positive about the future outlook for Spectrum than I did before, so I think that was a success, although a smooth transition will require a lot of work and good fortune over the next couple of years. Aside from that, I've been continuing planning work on what we'll be focusing on for the next year or so — now that more people are working on Spectrum and things can go faster, and because Spectrum still involves a lot of research questions whose results can cause estimates to change or tasks to need to be swapped out, this is now basically a continuous process of communication between myself, the rest of the team, and NLnet to make sure things keep going smoothly. Aside from that, I worked a bit on a series I've had in the background for a while that fixes some lifecycle bugs around networking in Spectrum, but mostly after an intense several days of travel, networking, and fact finding, I've been needing a fair bit of rest. Demi has been getting familiar with the Cloud Hypervisor codebase by finding and fixing various safety issues in it. We expect her to be doing a lot more work on Cloud Hypervisor in future, and this is a good on-ramp that's already resulting in upstream improvements. So far two PRs have been accepted, and another is still in progress. In a few minutes it's no longer Sunday anywhere on Earth, so that's it for now. In the next week I expect to spend time following up on connections I made at the conferences, making sure work and funding is sorted for the rest of the year, and hopefully finishing my networking lifecycle fixes.