testmanHow The German Government is Planning for an Open Future
QuintusIronic
How so?
jlow (he/him)So I would love if this would be the case (German gov using open soruce software) but tbh this reads like marketing bs to me, sorry. “Aims to transform public administration”, “providing Germany’s public sector with a secure and open-source alternative”. Yes, good. Nice. Cool. But are any government agencies are actually using it? I feel like if they wpild be they’d surely name them …
they tried already using open source in several occasions for smaller administrative municipalities.
all failed and went back then, wasting loads of time and money. so for sure marketing gag
Are you sure?
Just about two weeks ago they launched OpenDesk.
www.digitale-verwaltung.de/…/10_zendis.html
Element chat is integrated in this suite.
I think no government anywhere else has embraced open source as much as Germany does.
The are building their sovereign cloud and different states, Schools, government departments, hospitals… are joining.
arstechnica.com/…/german-state-gov-ditching-windo…
They’ve put their money where their mout is by creating a sovereign tech fund.
They move slowly, as governments do, but they have a goal and a plan. It’s not easy to switch and running contracts have to reach the end of their term but when these contracts are over the move will be huge.
I’m really having high hopes of Schleswig Holstein doing of right (I’m also being prepared of these hopes being crushed 😸). A Swiss Linux podcast (Captain, It’s Wednesday) did an interview with one of the politicians responsible for the project and it sounded like the looked at why these projects have failed in the past and are trying to learn from the mistakes:
They started out with sort of a ‘fail forward’ approach where as German entities were encouraged to try and implement different types of open source software of OS’es. Those experiments have led to a broader understanding and in the meantime they funded the greater project that became OpenDesk.
This year they joined forced with the French government where the were doing the same sort of project with La Suite. The French and the German team joined in a 100 day sprint to deliver somewhere around September.
Oh, that sounds nice! I think it would be very smart of Europe to build their own (open-source) infrastructure just in case someone not reliable were to become US president … Can’t hurt to start preparing (better far to late than never …)
Sleewich-Holstein is one of the first states to ditch Microsoft.
You have to know that all of this takes time. They’ve decided to follow this path in 2022 and were aiming for the first results to appear in 2025.
Two weeks ago ZenDis launched OpenDesk 1.0. www.openproject.org/blog/sovereign-workplace/
And I forgot to mention that the French government is on board as well.
They on their side are launching La Suite which is based on the same building block as OpenDesk.
so right after they murdered millions they now pretend to be different
how hypocritical
I’m sure Germany is not a monolithic entity. It has different departments for different things and if you don’t agree with them politically or dislike their actions, none of that has anything to do with them using tech for general administration purposes.
Right after? What year is it?
youmaynotknowAre you for real? What makes you think Germans are inherently nazies? And “right after”, just WAO.
AtemuIf anyone reading has proof of M$ spying on the German government they could whistle about, right about now would be a great time to do it ;)
The German government is also using Matrix for communication in some organizations.
マリウス“How the German government failed to build a meaningful IT industry over the past thirty years due to the lack of knowledgeable workforce and a failed education system to train them, and is now looking into open source for help to get them out of their US controlled infrastructure.”