Ancestors

Written by bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 on 2025-02-02 at 13:38

My call for European governments to retain at least a core IT/communication/email/file capability that is independent of US clouds. Named after the iconic Radio Kootwijk which we built in response to the English cutting off our communications with Indonesia in 1916: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/communicating-without-musk-and-trump-cloud-kootwijk/

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Written by burakemir on 2025-02-02 at 14:49

@bert_hubert Reminds me, I read about the German Bundeswehr's use of matrix recently, covering healthcare communications. It seems like a good use of every nation's army resources to invest in critical infrastructure since they are also supposed to protect it after all. https://element.io/de/matrix-in-deutschland

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Written by The Matrix.org Foundation on 2025-02-02 at 20:57

@burakemir @bert_hubert The ridiculous thing on this is that funding for Matrix from govts is still incredibly small (and not sustainable) thanks to the freerider effect (“why would we pay subscription for something that’s free?”), while they continue to pump huge amounts of € to proprietary US SaaS platforms. ZenDiS and Sweden get it right, but they can’t shoulder it all. We urgently need help.

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Toot

Written by edzob on 2025-02-03 at 18:14

@matrix

did you talk to @kurtseifried ?

I think he was part of a german open source funding initiative.

https://www.sovereign.tech/about

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Descendants

Written by kurtseifried (he/him) on 2025-02-03 at 19:48

@edzob @matrix @burakemir @bert_hubert yup it’s at https://apply.sovereigntechfund.de

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Written by The Matrix.org Foundation on 2025-02-04 at 00:08

@kurtseifried @edzob @burakemir @bert_hubert yup, we are talking to STA/STF (but haven’t had success yet; hopefully this tome will change!)

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