Open Source Summit Europe 2024

This talk describes a journey that began almost a quarter of a century ago. The first attempts to establish open source in Germany failed. Only with a cloud and digital sovereignty strategy was it possible to establish FOSS in the German administration. The speaker was involved in various initiatives, the Verwaltungsgitlab (OpenCode.de), the strategic papers of the IT Planning Council, OpenDesk, the founding of the Sovereign Tech Fund and is still centrally involved in the updating of the strategy. It provides an insight into the foundations of a private cloud strategy that ultimately paved the way for FOSS. The vision is a digitally sovereign administration cloud that ensures a secure and automated implementation of modern administration processes through DevSecOps as the engine of the processes.