Update 2025-10-20-ngi.md

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 We’re excited to share some fantastic news — **OpenVoiceOS (OVOS)** has been selected to receive a grant from the [**NGI Zero Commons Fund**](https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-zero-commons-fund/)!
 
-This milestone represents a huge step forward for our mission to build an open, community-driven, and **privacy-first** voice assistant platform. With this support, we can accelerate our progress from beta to a stable **version 1.0.0**.
+This milestone represents a huge step forward for our mission to build an open, community-driven, and **privacy-first** voice assistant platform. With this support, we can accelerate our progress from beta to a first stable version under our OpenVoiceOS umbrella.
 
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 With support from the NGI Zero Commons Fund, we’ll be able to:
 
-- 💼 **Hire our lead developer** full-time to deliver on the 1.0.0 roadmap
+- 💼 **Hire our lead developer** to deliver on the first stable roadmap
 - 🧭 **Improve onboarding** and usability for non-technical users
 - 🌍 **Expand language support** and stabilize platform components
 - 📚 **Enhance documentation** for developers building skills and plug-ins
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 ## Real-World Impact
 
 OVOS is already making a difference across Europe and beyond.
-It powers projects such as the **Royal Dutch Visio Voicelab**, bringing voice interaction to visually impaired users, as well as conversational assistants in **nursing homes**, **manufacturing**, and **multilingual AI initiatives**.
+It powers projects such as the [**Royal Dutch Visio Voicelab**](https://voicelab.visio.org/), bringing voice interaction to visually impaired users, as well as conversational assistants in [**nursing homes**](https://khoshnazdesign.com/Fritzi/), [**manufacturing**](https://coala-ai.de/), and/ or [**multilingual AI initiatives**](https://proyectoilenia.es/recursos-modelos-datasets/).
 
 This grant helps us strengthen that ecosystem — empowering developers, researchers, and users to shape the future of open, ethical voice technology.
 
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 ## Thank You ❤️
 
-We want to express our gratitude to the **NGI Zero Commons Fund**, **NLnet Foundation**, and our incredible community of **contributors**, **volunteers**, and **users**.
+We want to express our gratitude to the [**NGI Zero Commons Fund**](https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-zero-commons-fund/), [**NLnet Foundation**](https://nlnet.nl/), and our incredible community of **contributors**, **volunteers**, and **users**.
 Your support makes it possible to keep building a voice assistant platform that prioritizes **freedom**, **transparency**, and **privacy**.
 
 Together, we’re proving that open voice technology can be **trustworthy**, **user-owned**, and **truly free**.
 
-Stay tuned for more updates as we move toward our full **1.0.0 release**!
+Stay tuned for more updates as we move toward our full **first stable release**!
 
 🔗 [NLnet Announcement](https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html)
 🔗 [NGI Zero Commons Fund](https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/)