Post · bonfire.cafe

It's so cool to see European ministers advocate for #digitalsovereignty 🔥

Currently on stage are Germany's and France's Ministers for Digital Affairs, talking about the necessity of funding EU alternatives. Later today our Dutch gov's CIO will talk about the EDIC, a consortium in which we build sovereign digital commons together (like #MijnBureau). The day ends with keynotes from French pres Macron and German Chancellor Merz.

#opensource is def having it's moment in Europe 🇪🇺 #EUsummit25

Our contribution to the conference: "The Power of Digital Commons: Building Europe's Shared Digital Future"

French Minister for Economy, Finance and Digital Sovereignty Roland Lescure

German minister for Digital Transformation and Gov Modernisation Karsten Wildberger

Big conference room with the stage in the center

Gina

@Gina@fosstodon.org replied · 3 days ago

The panel "The Power of Digital Commons: Building Europe's Shared Digital Future" talks about EU collaboration on open source alternatives 🤝

Our Dutch gov CIO Art de Blaauw talks about the EDIC, in which EU countries work together on sovereign workspace software such as La Suite, OpenDesk and MijnBureau. The official EDIC launch will be in The Hague on December 11th. 🇪🇺

Also there; Adriana Groh from the @sovtechfund

#EUsummit25 #opensource #foss #digitalsovereignty

Video frame on the EU collaboration on opensource alternatives (such as the Docs app)

Vincent 🌻🇪🇺

@photovince@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@Gina @sovtechfund Will these talks be online that you know?

Gina

@Gina@fosstodon.org replied · 2 days ago

@photovince @sovtechfund it was livestreamed but idk if they will also be uploaded somewhere (they prob will be)

Gina

@Gina@fosstodon.org replied · 3 days ago

I really liked the message from @C__CS (Dr. Corinne Cath), from Article 19. Paraphrased:

"Open source solutions without infrastructure is a democratic illusion. Right now there's a massive outage at Cloudflare, which means that many website are inaccessible. Last month there have been other outages with similar impact. This is a democratic crisis dressed up as a technical failure."

#digitalsovereignty #EUsummit25

Ronny Lam

@ronnylam@mastodon.social replied · 3 days ago

@Gina @C__CS Do NOT use Cloudflare! Solved!

Peet Tetteroo

@Pettet8@mastodon.social replied · 3 days ago

@Gina

This was not blocked by NL government ..

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/dutch-cloud-firm-solvinity-taken-over-by-us-it-giant-kyndryl/

Guillaume

@xiu@mastodon.spinningru.st replied · 3 days ago

@Gina woah, looks great! Looking forward to reading your takeaways!

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange replied · 3 days ago

@Gina

Please try to convince them that we don't want a European equivalent of big tech, we want a larger number of small European companies that, between them, offer many alternatives to US Big Tech.