Stellt euch vor, eure Kommune, eure Stadt oder euer Dorf betreibt einen eigenen Friendica-Server – kostenlos für alle Bürger:innen.

✅ Geringer Aufwand, große Wirkung: Ein Server für die ganze Kommune kostet nur wenige Euro im Monat und ist technisch einfach umsetzbar.

✅ Datenschutz statt Datenklau: Keine Werbetracker, keine Algorithmen, die uns spalten. Eure Daten bleiben lokal und sicher – unter europäischer Kontrolle.

✅ Unabhängig von Tech-Konzernen: Kein Facebook, kein Twitter, kein Mastodon-Monopol. Friendica ist dezentral und offen – wie E-Mail, nur sozialer.

✅ Lokale Vernetzung: Nachbarschaftsgruppen, Vereinskommunikation, Bürgerbeteiligung – alles auf einer Plattform, die euch gehört.

✅ Trotzdem global vernetzt: Euer Account (z.B. max@muenster.friendica.net) kann problemlos mit Accounts wie lisa@berlin.friendica.net oder sogar mit Mastodon-Nutzern kommunizieren – ohne Silos, ohne Grenzen!

Wie bringt man das ins Rollen?

--> Verantwortlichen direkt kontaktieren!

--> Bürgermeister:innen, Stadträte, Gemeindeverwaltungen, lokale Parteien anschreiben:
„Warum betreibt unsere Kommune keinen eigenen Friendica-Server für Bürger:innen? Das wäre ein starkes Zeichen für Datenschutz, digitale Souveränität und lokale Vernetzung – und es ist günstig umsetzbar! [....]“

Viele Menschen möchten weg von den großen Plattformen – aber scheuen den Schritt, weil Mastodon, Friendica & Co. mit ihren vielen Einzel-Servern oft zu kompliziert wirken. Genau hier können Kommunen die Lösung sein.

Ein offizieller, lokaler Friendica-Server der Stadt oder Gemeinde schafft Vertrauen, senkt die Hürden und gibt allen Bürger:innen eine einfache, sichere Alternative – ohne Tech-Stress, ohne Datenklau.

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Vi styrker IT-teamet med Linux-kompetanse!

Thales søker en erfaren og engasjert Linux-spesialist til IT-avdelingen. I rollen som Information Systems Services Engineer blir du en sentral ressurs i et teknisk miljø som jobber med drift, utvikling og sikring av virksomhetens kjerneinfrastruktur. Du vil få ansvar for å designe, iverksette og vedlikeholde Linux-baserte systemer og plattformer som understøtter både interne behov og forretningskritiske tjenester.

Ansvarsområder og sentrale oppgaver

• Drift, optimalisering og overvåkning av Linux i fysiske og virtuelle miljøer.
• Deployment, konfigurasjon og forvaltning av tjenester, applikasjonsmiljøer og container-basert infrastruktur.
• Feilsøking og problemløsning i komplekse Linux- og nettverksmiljøer.
• Bruk av administrasjons-, overvåknings- og analyseverktøy for å sikre stabil drift og utarbeide forbedringsforslag
• Bidra i IT- og forretningsprosjekter med Linux-faglig kompetanse
• Videreutvikling av automasjon, infrastruktur-as-code og konfigurasjonsstyring
• Sikre god dokumentasjon, rutiner og teknisk kvalitet
• Gi faglig støtte og veiledning til teamet innen Linux-områder
• Være en aktiv bidragsyter i arbeidet med sikkerhet, herunder patch management, hardening og etterlevelse av interne retningslinjer

Ønsket bakgrunn og kompetanse

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• Høyere utdanning innen IT/teknologi. Lengre relevant erfaring kan kompensere for formell utdannelse
• Minimum 3–5 års erfaring med Linux-drift i mellomstore eller større organisasjoner
• Solid kompetanse innenfor flere av områdene under:

o Drift og forvaltning av Linux-servere og klienter
o Automatisering og scripting
o Konfigurasjonsstyring og IaC
o Container-teknologi og orkestrering
o Virtualiseringsplattformer og skyteknologier
o CI/CD- og DevOps-miljøer
o Systemovervåkning og logganalyse
o Nettverksforståelse relatert til drift av Linux-baserte tjenester
o Lagrings- og backup-løsninger i Linux-miljø.

o Kjennskap til Microsoft infrastruktur

Kvalifikasjoner og personlige egenskaper

• Evne til å jobbe selvstendig og samtidig være en sterk lagspiller
• Trives med å bidra på tvers av fagområder og teknologi
• Forstår hvordan tekniske valg påvirker brukeropplevelse, sikkerhet og kostnader
• Arbeider strukturert og kvalitetsbevisst
• Er initiativrik og ansvarlig med et sterkt engasjement for moderne Linux-drift
• Løsningsorientert, nysgjerrig og opptatt av kontinuerlig forbedring
• Har et tydelig sikkerhetsfokus i alt arbeid
• Erfaring med ITIL-prosesser er en fordel

For å være en aktuell kandidat til stillingen, må du være norsk statsborger, og du må kunne sikkerhetsklareres og autoriseres for nivå STRENGT HEMMELIG og NATO SECRET med særinstrukser fra Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet. Du kan ikke inneha annet statsborgerskap enn norsk.

OsloMet - the metropolitan university is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees.
Do you want to develop and operate robust, modern and secure Linux-based services for one of the country's largest knowledge environments?

At the Division of ICT, Section of IT Infrastructure, there is a vacancy for a senior engineer.

Do you want to help develop and operate robust, modern and secure Linux-based services for one of the country's largest knowledge environments? OsloMet strengthens its infrastructure team and is looking for an experienced senior engineer with solid Linux expertise.

As part of the IT Infrastructure section, you will work in a professionally strong environment with high professionalism, short decision-making paths and great influence.

Our Linux operating environment consists of approximately 300 servers across Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Debian. Our virtualization platforms are Nutanix AHV and Proxmox. We use Zabbix as the primary monitoring tool and Puppet/Openvox for configuration management.
Tasks

You will have key roles in the operation, development and modernisation of the University's IT services. Tasks include:

- general operation and management of Linux systems
- monitoring, capacity planning and incident management
- configuration management and automation
- operation and further development of DNS and email services
- working with colleagues to ensure stable and secure operation of the University's IT services
- participate in projects and interdisciplinary initiatives across the ICT department
- contribute to architecture, standardization and documentation

We are looking for you who have

- relevant university or college education, preferably a master's degree. Long and relevant work experience can compensate for the educational requirement.
- long experience in Linux system management (preferably RHEL or Debian-based systems)
- scripting language experience (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby)
- good Norwegian and English skills, written and oral

It would be an advantage if you have

- experience operating DNS and email services on Linux platform
- good knowledge of IPv6
- experience with larger operating environments and complex infrastructure
- experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and the like)
- familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, elk/Opensearch and the like)
- knowledge of virtualization technologies (Nutanix, Proxmox, KVM and the like)
- container technology experience

Personal attributes

- good analytical skills
- works structured and independent
- has good communication skills and shares knowledge
- collaborates well in teams and takes responsibility in complex operating environments

Personal suitability will be emphasized.

It is important for OsloMet to reflect the population of our region and we welcome all qualified applicants. We are actively working to develop further as an inclusive workplace and to facilitate the workplace if you need it. If you have periods in your life where you have not been in employment, education or training, you are also welcome to apply with us.

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OsloMet - the metropolitan university is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees.
At the Department of ICT, Section of IT Infrastructure, there is a vacant temporary position as Senior Engineer until 31.12.2027.

ICT Department is looking for you who would like to work at the intersection of advanced infrastructure, artificial intelligence and research at Norway's third largest university.
As a participant in the KI-infra KI project, you will contribute to OsloMet utilising new technology in the KI and HPC fields in both research and teaching. The project will give more users access to advanced and powerful technology, professional support and good workflows.

The KI-infra project is a strategic project initiated by the Department of Information Technology at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design (TKD) and aims to develop KI services for the entire university. The project has a duration of 2027. The position is organizationally linked to the Department of ICT, Section for IT Infrastructure, but will work closely with the rest of the project and with our user groups.

Your duties and responsibilities will be the operation, monitoring and optimization of OsloMet's KI and HPC platform based on SLURM and OpenOnDemand
- further development of the platform's functionality, user-friendliness and integrations
- contribute to technical upgrades, troubleshooting and performance improvements
- develop documentation, guides and best practices for users
- hold seminars, courses and training for research communities and students
- provide technical support and advice to users in the field of execution of KI jobs data processing and model execution

You must have

- relevant university or college education. Relevant work experience may compensate for the educational requirement.
- experience with Linux system management (preferably RHEL or Debian-based systems).
- programming experience
- experience with scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby).
- good Norwegian and English skills, written and oral

It would be an advantage if you have

- experience with SLURM (or equivalent solutions), either as a user or administrator
- experience with popular data processing tools (JupyterHub, RStudio, MATLAB)
- experience with OpenOnDemand
-expertise in the operation of KI/ML workloads (GPU clusters, CUDA, ML frameworks)
- experience with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Manager, etc.)
- familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, elk/Opensearch)
- experience with Git and DevOps methodology
- experience in communicating with users, such as support, guidance and/or instruction
- experience working in the university and college sector

Personal attributes

- is able to communicate knowledge to others in a clear and good way across different audiences
- good execution ability
- works well in collaboration with others, but also alone

Personal suitability will be emphasized.

It is important for OsloMet to reflect the population of our region and we welcome all qualified applicants. We are actively working to develop further as an inclusive workplace and to facilitate the workplace if you need it. If you have periods in your life where you have not been in employment, education or training, you are also welcome to apply with us.

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A break with symbolism:
For fear of sanctions, the International Criminal Court is replacing US technology with a package from Germany – and could thus be at the beginning of a trend.
(Christof Kerkmann,10/30/2025 - 04:06)

Düsseldorf. It is a decision with political explosiveness: out of fear of reprisals by US President Donald Trump, the International Criminal Court (ICC) plans to make itself independent of technologies from the USA. According to Handelsblatt information, the international institution in The Hague, the Netherlands, is replacing Microsoft's workplace software through the German Open Desk solution.

The program package that Microsoft is to replace comes from the Center for Digital Sovereignty (Zendis), a federal company. Its mission is to strengthen the digital independence of public administration by resolving “critical dependencies on individual technology providers”. Open Desk as a program package with components from eight European software manufacturers is a central element.

Read more:
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With proven open source components, the federal government-funded suite openDesk guides management out of Microsoft dependency.

Financed by the Federal Government, it has been in operation since October 2024. OpenDesk promises open source applications for digital collaboration under a unified interface. This includes word processing, spreadsheet, chat and video conferencing tools, cloud storage, a project management module, a wiki, and email, contact, and calendar features.

With the project, the federal government wants to reduce the dependence of the German authorities on US providers such as Microsoft.

- Enterprise version with self-hosting and SaaS

The individual components of the Office and Collaboration Suite are open source components of Collabora, Element, Nextcloud, Nordeck, Open-Xchange, Univention, Open Project and XWiki. In addition to the community edition of openDesk, version 1.0 is also an enterprise edition with two professional operating models: as a package for operation in your own data center (self-hosting) and as a software-as-a-service (SaaS). openDesk is to be run entirely as a Kubernetes-based cloud application, local installations are not required.

The IT service provider B1 Systems is to take care of the support of the self-hosting variant, the SaaS version comes from the German cloud provider StackIT. Last month, both companies were awarded the contract by ZenDis, which is behind Opendesk ("Centre for Digital Sovereignty of
Public Administration").

- A confident workplace instead of Microsoft

OpenDesk is based on an initiative by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and nine federal states. They joined forces in November 2021 to reduce the public sector's dependence on US software under the then project name "Sovereign Workplace". ZenDiS, founded in 2022, coordinates the development of openDesk as a public GmbH on behalf of the Federal Government.
The Federal Government intends to provide ZenDiS with around 10 million euros for the further development of the suite in the current year. In previous years, the federal government has already invested around 35 million euros in the development of openDesk. The Microsoft 365 alternative also competes with the technically closely related Phoenix suite of the public North German IT service provider Dataport, which, however, is not completely open source and is currently only available as a software-as-a-service.

(Source: heise.de/news/Microsoft-365-Al…)

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A stable, secure and privacy conscious option for schools.
Edubuntu is a community effort that seeks to bring the freedom of the Linux desktop and the vast library of open source education software into the classroom.

* Edubuntu has been revived for thousands of educators and students. Here
are the best new features.

Edubuntu is a popular open source educational operating system based on Ubuntu Linux. It is primarily aimed at students and teachers and aims to be the “Linux distribution in the classroom” with a solid Ubuntu base.
The new version of Edubuntu includes exciting new features and updates that make it even more valuable for educators and students. This article explains the best new features of Edubuntu.

* Changes to the user interface with modern GNOME

However, the new interface is designed to provide a better user experience and make navigation in the system more accessible to students and teachers.

* Accessibility and settings update

GNOME desktop, by default, is much more improved on the Accessibility front with many settings. In GNOME 44, the entire accessibility settings page is revamped. It is now based on a friendly name instead of a generic list of controls. Edubuntu 23.04 definitely going to provide a good experience with GNOME 44 for students having special needs.

Furthermore, the output and input section on the sound page in settings is shuffled for better clarity.

* Education specific applications

The most critical aspect of this distro is the applications specific to education. The default set of applications in Edubuntu 23.04 is well packaged, considering all types of students and their grade levels.
For generic office work, LibreOffice 7.5 is included. Browsing the web is easier with secure Firefox (snap).

Students who need art-related applications can take advantage of the below set of default apps:
- GIMP raster drawing program
- Drawing – simple image editor (similar to MS Paint)
- Tux Paint – drawing program for beginners
- LibreCAD – Free and open-source computer-aided design app
- Inkscape – Vector drawing program

A well set of language and learning tools to help all students across grades. Here’s a list:
- Endeavor – GTK-based to-do manager
- Gobby – an excellent tool for collaborative document editing over a network
- Ulcc – teach children through pictures.
- Khangman and KWordquiz – to learn and teach new words
- PDFMod – PDF editor
-Calibre – e-book management

Furthermore, a few important apps which are specialised and are perfect for specific subjects learning are also included.
- Gramps – genealogical research application
- KGeography – to learn world map
- Fritzing – electronic circuit designer and simulator

A huge collection of science and math applications are already installed by default.
- Atomix – Puzzle game about atoms and molecules
- Chemtool – design chemical diagrams
- Kalzium – Learn periodic table
- Light speed – An OpenGL-based program developed to illustrate the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects
- Rocs – Graph theory simulator
- Stellarium – free and open-source planetarium software
- Step – Interactive physics simulator
- Dia – diagramming application
- Kalgebra – learn algebra interactively

In addition, GNOME Extensions manager is pre-installed in Edubuntu for easy installation for extensions, taking the effort away from educators.

* Application controls for students

Since many applications and packages are installed, it’s necessary to have control in place to restrict certain apps for specific users. Edubuntu has a built-in menu editor. Using this utility, you can hide certain apps from the menu that are non-admin users.

* Hardware support and core changes

At the core, Edubuntu 23.04 is powered by the latest Linux Kernel 6.2. This brings all modern hardware, CPU, CPU, ports and file system support.
Python 3.11 is included as part of the Ubuntu base to help students to learn this popular programming language.

* Closing Notes

Edubuntu 23.04 is an excellent distro for educational purposes, and the new features and improvements in this release make it even more valuable for students and teachers. From improved user interface to better language support, Edubuntu 23.04 has something for everyone. Its enhanced collaboration tools, multimedia support, and science/math apps are perfect for classrooms.

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