Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

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#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

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François Legault gives zero f*cks about #digital #sovereignty OR the #privacy of Québec children...

THERE WERE BETTER OPTIONS THAN GIVING ALL THIS INFORMATION TO TRUMPISTAN. ca.news.yahoo.com/could-u-auth…

#polQC #QCpoli #assnat #data #cloud #internet

Could U.S. authorities get their hands on data from Quebec’s new daycare platform?

The province’s new platform for registering children for places in public daycares is being managed by an American tech company, sparking concerns about...

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What's the 2025 digital trend for you: #AI or digital #sovereignty?

If it's the latter, check out these European alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…

And, yes, Tuta is proudly #European! 💪 🇪🇺

So cool to now also see @matrix's @Amandine at #NGIForum25 to speak about sovereign and secure messaging #infrastructure (and strongly warn against the nationalist version of the digital #sovereignty narrative 💪):

"Does self-sufficiency even make sense in a globalised and digitised world?"

EU tech Brussels really has come a long way :) 🎉

As long as we talk about tech independence or digital #sovereignty primarily in terms of geography and jurisdiction, we will lose as users and as people with rights:

1. Because this narrative can easily be co-opted by antidemocratic, nationalistic forces.

2. It takes away attention from what actually provides us with independence: software #freedom, #interoperability, a power shift away from #bigtech to small, decentralised, ethical tech.

3. It gives praise to entities...

Guys use hashtags!

#Libreoffice #OpenSource #Freedom #Privacy #Sovereignty #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #OpenSource #Linux

Here are some of our main takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025:💡 👨‍💻

— Open and collaborative innovation solves the dilemma of #competitiveness and #sovereignty
— Now is the time to invest in open source #maintenance and #security
— Building sustainable open source ecosystems remains challenging but necessary
— Open source is being increasingly regulated in Europe, and the new challenge is #implementation and #compliance

Read more in our new blog: 👇 🔗

openforumeurope.org/the-eu-ope…