Are there any people from FSFE Germany in contact with http://www.germandatacenters.com/de/home/ I am thinking if some aspects of open source, open data initiatives can be put inside these organisations in the beginning? They have founded this since 10 August 2017 in Frankfurt. Related news: https://www.golem.de/news/german-datacenter-association-betreiber-von-rechen...
Or anyone forward it to the right group or persons. Thanks Karsten
On 12.08.2017 09:37, Karsten Dreifus wrote:
Are there any people from FSFE Germany in contact with http://www.germandatacenters.com/de/home/ I am thinking if some aspects of open source, open data initiatives can be put inside these organisations in the beginning?
In that direction, the "World Hosting Days" are surely a nice event to connect to ISPs. Maybe not necessarily to raise awareness inside, but potentially for donations or 'just' useful contacts?
http://worldhostingdays.com/global/
Dies ist übrigens eine deutsche Liste :-)
Hi Karsten,
# Karsten Dreifus [2017-08-12 09:37 +0200]:
Are there any people from FSFE Germany in contact with http://www.germandatacenters.com/de/home/ I am thinking if some aspects of open source, open data initiatives can be put inside these organisations in the beginning? They have founded this since 10 August 2017 in Frankfurt. Related news: https://www.golem.de/news/german-datacenter-association-betreiber-von-rechen...
Not to my knowledge, at least not officially. But you're right, this may be a good opportunity. I'm forwarding your message to the FSFE's Team Germany [1].
@all: If we wanted to highlight the relevance of Free Software for datacenters, which specific benefits and reasons for supporting FLOSS would you mention?
Best, Max