Saxony in Action: Supporting a Lasting FOSS Foundation
summary
Saxony funds the FOCIS project so ALASCA moves from volunteer group to staffed foundation, hired employees and stable governance, onboarding seven projects via a formal acceptance pipeline and public GitLab test lab, and offers a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution Taruk for hackathons that need 12 cores / 32 GB per sandbox. Public funding pays for monthly tech talks (about 33 so far), two free summits, and helped get the Sovereign Cloud Stack into the Deutschland Stack while winning the Sächsische Digitalpreis.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction to Alaska
- 1:32Why we founded Alaska
- 5:03Goals and structure of Alaska
- 7:52Alaska in the open source ecosystem
- 9:40Alaska governance model
- 11:06Project onboarding process
- 13:59Project maturity stages
- 15:45Saxony’s open source strategy
- 17:10Funding through Saxony
- 18:52Community and outreach activities
- 20:16Summits and hackathons
- 22:42Political campaigning efforts
- 24:07Community feedback and future plans
- 25:51Closing and Q&A
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