Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source - FOSS Force
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Digital sovereignty is no longer just a slogan: German states, Austrian ministries and French agencies are getting on the bandwagon.

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The most recent example of Microsoft and other ‘born in the USA’ software vendors being shown the door comes from the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

“The transition away from Microsoft SharePoint has been completed step by step, without disruption or data loss for employees,” explained Marco Anschütz, the state’s CIO, in a statement. “Together with DVZ M-V, we have built a platform that runs reliably today and continues to expand step by step.”

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The statement was in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s announcement of its launch of a Nextcloud-based collaboration platform, which is expected to eventually serve 50,000 state and municipal employees. DVZ M-V is the state’s IT service provider, which is hosting the platform and taking care of most of the logistics to get it running.

So far, about 5,000 employees are actively using the platform for file sharing. By the time it’s finished, it will be expanded to include chat, videoconferencing, and groupware applications. That’s not as big a feat as it sounds, since Nextcloud ships with those capabilities ready to go. (Full disclosure: Nextcloud is a Platinum Sponsor of FOSS Force.)

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  • RidderSport@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I live here so I can maybe paint a better picture. The right is mostly strong in the country-side, even in the tourism areas. The state is quite big with very few people living there and the lowest wages across Germany. Add to that the highest per capita alcohol consumption, well you get the gist.

    The cities and bigger towns are political enclaves in that regard. Rostock (Linke/SPD), Wismar (not sure) and Greifswald (Grüne (mayor)/ Linke/SPD) espescially are quite different, to a large part due to the universities.

    That Nazis live here is not new, in fact the NPD used to hold a few seats in parliament. But it was for the most part a kind of enduring acceptance between the far right and the the rest (including the far left). One demonstrated and fought eachother during regular events, but for the remaining year the country was big enough. That premise jas been largely erroded by the AfD. The worst part is that nowhere else have I more explicatly seen the difference in education comparing the far-right with the rest. It is literally drunks, unemployed and low-income mostly here.

    Then you have this weird fascination with Russia that you find among the AfD as well as BSW.

    Essentially, if you live in the bigger towns, you will be mostly fine however you dress, look or believe. In the countryside you will be fine for most of the day if you have thicker skin and are well off.

    However I am crossing all my fingers that we will keep the AfD smallish in September and that the CDU doesn’t change seats.