Robert @rriemann, EU OS project lead, has met yesterday Dirk Schrödter @dirkschroedter, Minister for Digitalization and Head of the State Chancellery Schleswig-Holstein (SH) in Brussels. SH will organise a public tender for a #Linux OS. To be seen to which extend #EU_OS can be reflected in the tender specification! 🤔

#endof10#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack#GermanStack#DPI #KDE

Robert @rriemann, EU OS project lead, has met yesterday Dirk Schrödter @dirkschroedter, Minister for Digitalization and Head of the State Chancellery Schleswig-Holstein (SH) in Brussels. SH will organise a public tender for a #Linux OS. To be seen to which extend #EU_OS can be reflected in the tender specification! 🤔

#endof10#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack#GermanStack#DPI #KDE

Jim Killock
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Jim Killock and 1 other boosted

Please reshare ♻️! Mario #Draghi on 22 Oct: "For years the European Union believed that its economic dimension, with 450 million consumers, would itself bring geopolitical power and leverage in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which that illusion evaporated."

He goes on: "One lesson is now clear from the way the global economy is 1/x

#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack #LaSuite #opendesk #DigitalEU #OSPO#EDIC#DPI #endof10#Linux#Fedora #opensuse

Please reshare ♻️! Mario #Draghi on 22 Oct: "For years the European Union believed that its economic dimension, with 450 million consumers, would itself bring geopolitical power and leverage in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which that illusion evaporated."

He goes on: "One lesson is now clear from the way the global economy is 1/x

#DigitalSovereignty#EuroStack #LaSuite #opendesk #DigitalEU #OSPO#EDIC#DPI #endof10#Linux#Fedora #opensuse

Michael Downey 🧢
just small circles 🕊
Michael Downey 🧢 and 1 other boosted

Thanks to our network of supporters, #EU_OS benefits from early access to a study from the Commission @EC_DIGIT on the in-house use of #Linux on the workspace. It is from 2005 and was revealed through an request for access to documents. Stay tuned and follow #EU_OS as we will publish the report on https://eu-os.eu in the next days and analyse which aspects apply still in 2025.

#endof10#Windows10#DigitalSovereignty#DeutschlandStack#EuroStack #opensource

Thanks to our network of supporters, #EU_OS benefits from early access to a study from the Commission @EC_DIGIT on the in-house use of #Linux on the workspace. It is from 2005 and was revealed through an request for access to documents. Stay tuned and follow #EU_OS as we will publish the report on https://eu-os.eu in the next days and analyse which aspects apply still in 2025.

#endof10#Windows10#DigitalSovereignty#DeutschlandStack#EuroStack #opensource

#European search index is live now! 🙌

Staan¹ (Search Trusted API Access Network) is a joint venture between @ecosia and @Qwant:

> We’ve started delivering search results from our new European-based search index to #ecosia users! This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair Internet we believe in.

https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/

¹ https://staan.ai

#EUSP#Staan#Google#Search#EuroStack #privacy#Qwant

#European search index is live now! 🙌

Staan¹ (Search Trusted API Access Network) is a joint venture between @ecosia and @Qwant:

> We’ve started delivering search results from our new European-based search index to #ecosia users! This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair Internet we believe in.

https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/

¹ https://staan.ai

#EUSP#Staan#Google#Search#EuroStack #privacy#Qwant

"The challenge is not simply to build a “Dutch cloud” or “European #cloud” as nationalistic alternatives, but to develop alternative visions for the role of computing in society that prioritize people over profit maximization," writes @C__CS in this excellent critique of Europe's #DigitalSovereignty debate and the so-called #EuroStack.
https://www.techpolicy.press/clouds-over-public-infrastructure-rethinking-internet-governance-in-the-hyperscaler-era/

#foss #digitalfreedom #digitalrights

"The challenge is not simply to build a “Dutch cloud” or “European #cloud” as nationalistic alternatives, but to develop alternative visions for the role of computing in society that prioritize people over profit maximization," writes @C__CS in this excellent critique of Europe's #DigitalSovereignty debate and the so-called #EuroStack.
https://www.techpolicy.press/clouds-over-public-infrastructure-rethinking-internet-governance-in-the-hyperscaler-era/

#foss #digitalfreedom #digitalrights

Kathy Reid
Joachim
quinta - Stefano Quintarelli
Kathy Reid and 7 others boosted

Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀

Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

#Proton#Switzerland#Privacy#EuroStack#ProtonMail