"The German government has launched a new Open Source software project called openDesk, which aims to reduce the country’s dependency on proprietary software vendors and support transparency and interoperability.
openDesk is a collection of Open Source software modules that are important for day-to-day work in the public sector, such as text creation, file collaboration, project management, email, calendar and messaging."https://opensource.net/governments-adopt-open-source-sovereignty/
@janvlug I am working on the openDesk project and couldn't be happier of my team!
@jaimeconds Great! Can you recommend some more places to read about this? In particular, explanations of why the German government decided to do this and how they are doing it. I hope we can get something like this going in Sweden as well, and I think it can help a lot to show it is already being done in other countries. Do you already collaborate with other EU countries around this?
@jaimeconds Thank you!
> digital sovereignty for German
> and French schools, as students
> data should not be on Google or
> Microsoft clouds.
Very important issue, I think not only regarding the data but also what students learn, students should learn things that are not tied to a certain big tech company's products. The interests of a healthy society is very different from the interests of those huge companies. We need a free society. Free software, free society! 🙂
@eliasr @janvlug
Sure! I do not know about why it was decided, but happy it happened!
Here you have some insightful links:
Collabora - https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/opendesk-collabora-online-brings-digital-freedom-to-european-government/
OpenProject - https://www.openproject.org/blog/sovereign-workplace/
Free Software Foundation Europe - https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230920-01.en.html
Currently, we also have a project for digital sovereignty for German and French schools, as students data should not be on Google or Microsoft clouds.
openDesk specifics are Apache2 licensed, but general code is AGPLv3 in our case.