#opensuse has no foundation to receive funds. There is the geekos foundation helping with travel grands, but they have no role in governance.
FYI www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Po...
Where is Schleswig-Holstein publishing their lessons learnt? People tried to convince #opensuse setup a foundation, but they did not want to.
Please keep in mind that the focus is to have in the public sector free operating systems to replace proprietary systems of third countries as soon as possible. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Of course, EU OS is always an offer and not mandatory.
Robert is still around. So reach out via Mastodon chaos.social/@rriemann or on Matrix rriemann:kde.org .
#DigitalSovereignty #DPI #DigitalCommons #fosdem2026
Talk online for streaming:
FOSDEM 2026 - EU OS: learnings from 1 year advocating for a common Desktop Linux for the public sector
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
#fosdem #fosdem26 #EU_OS #DigitalSovereignty
That's what we got so far:
gitlab.com/eu-os/worksp...
Admins can pin a base image and then define in YAML extra packages or files.
It is not reproducable, but the image is created only once and then copied.
/ RR
See also fosstodon.org/@opensuse/11... and replies.
Robert presented #EU_OS today at #fosdem in Brussels: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
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 eu-os.eu/poc/ .
While rumours of a possible owner change of #suse make rounds, check out the #EU_OS #fosdem talk slides at eu-os.eu/assets/slide...
#EU_OS encourages all #Linux distributors aiming to offer high #DigitalSovereignty to setup non-profit foundations to increase ownership stability.
