Hacking EU funding for a FOSS project

FOSS culture hacks^{h^h}h^h meets the EU buerocracy. It is not easy for FOSS projects to get $$$ funding by the European Union. We’ll look and discuss how it played out for the PyPy project, a language project targetting itself with a “Münchhausen” approach. We’ll try to see why it took the project – tackling deeply technical issues – one year to communicate “correctly” with the European Union.