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"I was at an evening reception in Germany together with people from the German
software community, business owners, government and associations. Beside
interesting discussions, I met a couple of people from organizatiojns
participating in the GAIA-X initiative to build a European alternative to
American cloud providers such as Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Something I
usually am not really interested in. These government initiatives often tend to
be focused more on bureaucracy and imho don't produce any hard output.
As the evening got longer, I was given some updates on how the initiative
progresses. To no one's surprise the initiative had produced a vast amount of
papers and concepts, and conducted numerous meetings. The shocker came when one
person said that they're now ready for the implementation.
"We've created all the concepts and ideas and now we're looking for the Open
Source community to build the software for an autonomous European Cloud." —
Anonymous person involved in the European GAIA-X initiative
I asked her what funding was associated and whether there are any bounties for
implementing any of their concepts. She looked at me confused and responded;
"No, the Open Source community should implement it now". I asked her whether
she knew how Open Source actually works, if she had ever met any Open Source
project teams, had ever written any software herself. You can guess the answer:
it's
No.
Why am I telling you this? Because this is absolutely the perception many
organizations have of Open Source. Someone, somewhere writes software that
businesses, NGOs or government can use to build services.
And that's a huge problem now."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
