Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@offene_netzwerke/115666635057884453

Two months ago, after our #Fediday @berlinfediday I had the idea for a campaign 🇪🇺 #eusummit25

Two weeks later, we had a paper with 4 demands that will help establish real digital #sovereignty & strengthen existing open #social #networks, like the #Fediverse. ✨

On the 12th of November, we launched our #alliance with a press conference.

Today, the 30th organisation joins our alliance for #open networks. It is my very pleasure and hounour that @edri supports our demands 🚀

Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

🛑 Deleting Corrupted Code 3of3: The heavy energy of trauma and past failures can't be fixed by fighting it seriously. We delete the corrupted code with lightness.

We ascend—we raise our frequency—by viewing these structural failures with lightheartedness and Sovereign Detachment. We label the pain as "corrupted code" or "irrelevant data," and we delete it with ease.

This act of emotional sovereignty allows you to transmute the low-frequency energy of grief and fear into the high-frequency output of Wisdom and Joy.

By cleaning your personal frequency, you act as a stable node in the global network. You accelerate the collective's journey toward a higher state of consciousness—a world defined by Sovereign Multiplication and Systemic Integrity.

What is one structural principle (like Kindness or Presence) you are enforcing today to stabilize your own system?

#FediCollective #Sovereignty #EnergeticStability

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@offene_netzwerke/115666635057884453

Two months ago, after our #Fediday @berlinfediday I had the idea for a campaign 🇪🇺 #eusummit25

Two weeks later, we had a paper with 4 demands that will help establish real digital #sovereignty & strengthen existing open #social #networks, like the #Fediverse. ✨

On the 12th of November, we launched our #alliance with a press conference.

Today, the 30th organisation joins our alliance for #open networks. It is my very pleasure and honour that @edri supports our demands 🚀

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@offene_netzwerke/115666635057884453

Two months ago, after our #Fediday @berlinfediday I had the idea for a campaign 🇪🇺 #eusummit25

Two weeks later, we had a paper with 4 demands that will help establish real digital #sovereignty & strengthen existing open #social #networks, like the #Fediverse. ✨

On the 12th of November, we launched our #alliance with a press conference.

Today, the 30th organisation joins our alliance for #open networks. It is my very pleasure and hounour that @edri supports our demands 🚀

Congrats dear @universityofgroningen 👏

So great to see real #digital #sovereignty at 🇪🇺 Universities

Thanks @babetteknauer for your work 🙏

Let us grow real #openscience #communication based on #opensource like #peertube ✨

The next step of to explore how to embed PeerTube videos into the university's CMS sounds even more promissing 🥰

Don't miss this keynote by @cwebber and @jboy!

> #SocialMedia: We Can Change the Defaults

📅 Th. 27 Nov. 2025 at 8 pm
online and #Amsterdam

> @cwebber, … co-author of #ActivityPub, … will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.0 era? She will introduce the work @spritely is doing to make a positive future possible.

#SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25

@pierre @bonfire @unif

Perfect, many thanks for your work on this! 🙏🙌

Please keep on going and communicate a lot about #science #communication on the #Fediverse!

❓Is there a blog post that explains the #OpenSocialNetwork project? Why #Bonfire? Which features of the fediverse benefit science? What are your goals? etc.

#SciComm #WissComm #ORCID #FediCampus #Wissenschaft #university #Universität #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #UnisInsFediverse #Xit

How bad was the "Digital Sovereignty Summit"?

Heise explains: https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-of-the-Digital-Sovereignty-Summit-Open-Source-Gets-Scolded-11084765.html

But I'll highlight one thing - the Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty, published and signed there, has this ridiculous sentence:

"Open-source solutions can play an important role enhancing digital sovereignty, provided they meet high cybersecurity standards and are complemented by reliable proprietary technologies where appropriate."

#Sovereignty #EU #OpenSource

Don't miss this keynote by @cwebber and @jboy!

> #SocialMedia: We Can Change the Defaults

📅 Th. 27 Nov. 2025 at 8 pm
online and #Amsterdam

> @cwebber, … co-author of #ActivityPub, … will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.0 era? She will introduce the work @spritely is doing to make a positive future possible.

#SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25

Beloved #FOSS #organisers,

looking at heise's "Analysis of the #Digital #Sovereignty #Summit" with a "Charter for Digital Sovereignty" that includes sentences like “ #Open #source solutions can play an important role in strengthening digital sovereignty, provided they[...] are complemented by reliable proprietary technologies” every single one of your events - even small and tiny - brings Europeans closer to digital sovereignty than its digital ministers.

Keep going ❤️

https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-of-the-Digital-Sovereignty-Summit-Open-Source-Gets-Scolded-11084765.html

🎦 Our #Fediverse talks from #SFSCon are live.

I gave a talk about our existing building blocks of public-interest digital infrastructures like #Matrix #Wikimedia projects and #socialnetworks and how they are relevant to establish real and long term #digital #sovereignty. ✨

"From #OpenSource to Open Spaces: The Fediverse and the Future of Public Digital Infrastructure"
🔗 https://www.sfscon.it/talks/from-open-source-to-open-spaces/

Thanks again for the cooperation #Fediforum & South Tyrol #FreeSoftware #Conference @ohnewein 👏