removed

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.

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.

https://code.gouv.fr/en/lasuite/

Some figures for those wondering how broadly adapted this open source suite is.

• Tchap: the trusted instant messaging service for the public sector used daily by 200,000 users. An extension of the Albert AI tool is planned for Tchap soon, during the summer.

• State audio conference with nearly 8,000 users for 700 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• State web conference with 47,000 users for 10,000 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• State webinar: the webinar service which can accommodate up to 350 participants, public officials and interlocutors from outside the State (from the public, private or associative sectors) has recorded more than 800,000 users for 65,000 meetings weekly (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• France transfer: the simple and secure solution for sending large files with 140,000 users having exchanged more than 350,000 letters (2024 figure as of mid-May).

• Resana, a public sector collaborative platform with 140,000 users and nearly 800,000 documents shared/month (2024 figure as of mid-May).

Sleswich-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. https://www.openproject.org/blog/sovereign-workplace/

Are you sure?

Just about two weeks ago they launched OpenDesk.

https://www.digitale-verwaltung.de/SharedDocs/kurzmeldungen/Webs/DV/DE/2024/10_zendis.html

Element chat is integrated in this suite and is allready vastly used by the federal government, the army,…

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.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/#gsc.tab=0

They’ve put their money where their mout is by creating a sovereign tech fund.

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/

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.

slaps on the pigeon shed

Fastest pigeons in the world baby.

But seriously. 1.252.000 euro for a pigeon

https://www.pipa.be/en/articles/update-armando-sold-1252000-euro-total-revenue-joel-verschoot-auction-2400000-euro-19439

Thanks. I agree with your conclusion. I probably have spent too much time in privacy communities. In the end you’ll have to trust someone.

USPCC only makes for a fourth of Cartamundi’s revenue. And to make it even more Belgian, Cartamundi is still run by the same two families that founded the company 6 generations ago Each family owns 50% of the shares.

ING Turkey ≠ ING Netherlands ≠ ING anywhere else

Billiard balls and playing cards. Belgium is world leader in both.

Edit: forgot to add pigeons. Belgian competition pigeons are the most expensive in the world.

Edit 2: Belfries. Clock-O-Matic is a Belgian company and world leader in the automation of Belfries. It’s not that hard because most Belfries are located in Belgium and France, if not all of them.

Edit 3: It never ends. Roller coaster wheels. Let that sink in. No their country produces more roller coaster wheels nor is as good as we arr at it.

I’ve set up some tunnels. Works nice but then the voices came. ‘Why would you trust a company like Cloudflare with all your data?’ ‘Why rely on this one company for all your services?’

Nearly a year into my selfhosting journey and I’m more confused than ever.

Sneakily adds an alfabethical sort option to that request.

Your tv is a monitor. Treat it as such.

I was there, in the days of rotten.com

Considering the state of the phones back then my 1+ 3t was amazing. No bloat, dirt cheap. A real flagship killer, as they positioned it.

These days I only require a phone to have fast charge like OnePlus or Oppo delivers it. 15 minutes charge for a full day of use. That’s awesome. I can never go back to iOS because I’m so used to my custom keyboard and the gestures I use for quick acces to apps and other stuff.

I also loved my windows phone. The seamless continuation moving from phone to laptop was something that only now is sort of coming back. The phone just needed apps but the os and the design was really fun.

I buy them second hand and clean them up.

We have the long steel ones from IKEA. Solid. Never had any problems with them.

You can skip the windows account part and just install with a local account, don’t you?

The tax that I’m talking about is calculated on the value that has been attributed by the cadastre. You pay it when you own the property without having a building or any other land use on site.

Then, when there is a building on the plot that isn’t being used as intended you get taxed on that. The rate is increased by 100% every year with a maximum of 4 increases resulting in a maximal tax of 500% of the base tax.

This is besides from the standard property tax that makes up an average of 50% of municipalities incomes. There are municipalities in Belgium they get up to 90% of their working funds out of those taxes.