Ampel schaltet um auf Open Source | 07.08.2022 | Zentrum für digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS)

Google translate: "...the coalition partners have decided to increase the open source budget by 37.5 million euros – to a total of 51 million euros. A large part of this, namely 32 million euros, will flow into the “Sovereign Workplace” project. In order to be less dependent on proprietary software, German administrations can build on open source solutions - regardless of whether they are conference tools, office software or helpdesk solutions. The Center for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS), which is to act as an interface for the dissemination of open source technology in administrations, will receive 8.3 million euros. Further funding from the package goes to the "Open CoDE" project, with which municipalities, states and the federal government can share the source code of their projects, and to the Sovereign Tech Fund, which is intended to promote the development of open source projects...."