Talk online for streaming:
FOSDEM 2026 - EU OS: learnings from 1 year advocating for a common Desktop Linux for the public sector

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DTE3NX-eu-os-1-year-after-with-feedback-and-wishlist/

#fosdem #fosdem26 #EU_OS #DigitalSovereignty

@Codeberg @terts @CoMaps Looking forward to migrating to you this year, Codeberg. #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty 💚💙 https://codeberg.org/NLnetLabs

Robert presented #EU_OS today at #fosdem in Brussels: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DTE3NX-eu-os-1-year-after-with-feedback-and-wishlist/

The room was full and could have been filled a 2nd time. Those who missed it can watch it later online. Make sure to follow to stay updated through 2026! Check out our PoC at https://eu-os.eu/poc/ .

Robert is still around. So reach out via Mastodon @rriemann or on Matrix rriemann:kde.org .

UPDATE: watch online at https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DTE3NX-eu-os-1-year-after-with-feedback-and-wishlist/

#DigitalSovereignty #DPI #DigitalCommons #fosdem2026

It's quite amazing how much #Fosdem has scaled up #policy, #funding and #DigitalSovereignty topics this year. #PublicProcurement experts, #policy folks, and #officials mingling and learning from the #FOSS community.👏

Powen Shiah and Paul Sharratt are at @OpenForumEurope's EU #OpenSource Policy Summit today in Brussels 🇪🇺. They’re attending on behalf of the Sovereign Tech Agency, the first public organization of its kind focused on the long-term maintenance and security of critical software infrastructure we all rely on. This work sits at the intersection of open source, digital sovereignty, and Europe’s future digital capacity.

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#digitalsovereignty #resilience #digitalinfrastructure

The liberal group in the European Parliament #Renew has an #Instagram campaign for leaving #BigTech platforms. That's cool.

What do you think @bartgroothuis, is that an opportunity to bring some of your colleagues over to the Fediverse?

Feel free to invite them to join our Mastodon server http://eupolicy.social - it is made specifically for the EU bubble.

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSocialWeb #LeaveX

@lexinova @nextcloud To be fair, we have also ‘thought about it' for a long time. The ongoing AI enshitification has accelerated this process though.

Yet, reworking our extensive use of GitHub Actions and achieving feature parity for all the runners on our various platforms only became viable recently. See this post for context https://hachyderm.io/@alexband/115961574869660535

#DigitalSovereignty #AIslop #OpenSource

@lexinova @nextcloud To be fair, we have also ‘thought about it' for a long time. The ongoing AI enshitification has accelerated this process though.

Yet, reworking our extensive use of GitHub Actions and achieving feature parity for all the runners on our various platforms only became viable recently. See this post for context https://hachyderm.io/@alexband/115961574869660535

#DigitalSovereignty #AIslop #OpenSource

@graaff Given the amount of people we have and services we depend on, this is all handled per service. Personal and shared credentials are handled in 1Password. For critical credentials and software signing we have a Yubikey-based process.

"Fun” fact: our security posture is pretty strong, but we don’t have a formally documented and verified process and thus no ISO27001 certification. This is becoming increasingly problematic dealing with (potential) customers. #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource

@graaff Given the amount of people we have and services we depend on, this is all handled per service. Personal and shared credentials are handled in 1Password. For critical credentials and software signing we have a Yubikey-based process.

"Fun” fact: our security posture is pretty strong, but we don’t have a formally documented and verified process and thus no ISO27001 certification. This is becoming increasingly problematic dealing with (potential) customers. #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource

We forgot that our blog is hosted by ghost.org (HQ in 🇸🇬 and servers in 🇳🇱) #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #DNS #BGP

In our journey to #DigitalSovereignty, here's where we are:

- Domain registration: TransIP and Prolocation 🇳🇱
- Email, calendar, collaborative writing, and more: mailbox.org 🇩🇪
- Document store: Tresorit 🇨🇭
- Critical infra hosting: Hetzner 🇩🇪
- Discourse hosting: Communiteq 🇳🇱
- Security: 1Password.eu 🇨🇦/🇪🇺 and Yubico 🇸🇪

Next up: GitHub —> Codeberg 🇩🇪

To-do: Slack —> Zulip, Matrix, Mattermost?

#OpenSource #DNS #BGP