A Boat of One's Own 🛶 Gestern ist "Blaubäär" von Darmstadt zu mir ins Ruhrgebiet gezogen. Ganz bald dann ganz viele Touren. #kayaking #paddling #paddeln

Wer #OpenSource entwickeln und mitgestalten will, braucht #Community Support - und muss Communities bei ihrer Arbeit unterstützen. Wir suchen jemanden, der/die uns dabei im @zendis ab November hilft 👀 Im Tausch gibt es interessante Themen, ein nettes […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Sunday morning winter paddles #kayaking #paddling

🐈🐄 New #HerdingCats #newsletter just dropped – written from the Bavarian countryside (turns out cows can be surprisingly inspiring). This edition is about community innovation: ▪️How innovation often starts with users, not companies ▪️What a Dutch DIY Wi-Fi network can teach us ▪️Why “field […]

I’ll be at #OpenSourceSummit in Amsterdam on August 25th! If you’re around and want to chat #OpenSource in the #PublicSector, or just grab a coffee, let me know - would love to meet up. 🙌 #OSSummit

I've created a Jupyter Lite version of the #GLAMWorkbench's 'getting started' notebook. It shows you how Jupyter notebooks work, with live examples that download data from the NMA collection API. https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started-jlite/lab/index.html?path=using_jupyter_notebooks.ipynb […]

“You’re not burned out because you’re weak. “You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it #leadership.” https://brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/

Eject disk.

A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you. What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to rebuild anything else. We’re all watching the wheel spin, hoping

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I joined Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (@zendis) a year ago, and it's flown by. It's been a complicated, often devastating, year politically, but it's been good being part of an organisation that seeks to counteract the current political climate of cut-throat deal-making with collaboration and […]

The latest #HerdingCats newsletter is out 🐈, featuring an analysis of the #EuroStack initiative's vision for a sovereign European digital infrastructure. Also in this issue: an #OpenSource project that lets you build and customise your own timeline algorithm […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Hey fellow #GovTech women, the deadline to apply for the Women in GovTech Challenge has been extended: https://www.govstack.global/women-in-govtech-challenge-2025/

Favourite moment @FOSSBackstage als Samuel Paccoud und Lea Beiermann live ihr deutsch-französisches Text-Editor-Tool vorstellen und auf ihrer Slide einen QR-Code zeigen und wir live auf dem Bildschirm sehen können, wie das Publikum im Saal anfängt, das Dokument zu editieren ("Ohai!" […]

It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near feature. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop […]

🐈 New issue of Herding Cats is out, this time exploring routines and how to disrupt them for #OpenSource adoption in the public sector. I'm also happy to share #Docs, a new tool for collaborative note-taking and a joint production by German and French developers 🤝 Plus, a short recap of the […]

"Meet me at" posts are more of a LinkedIn than a Mastodon thing, but well, I do want to meet you, so here it goes: Meet me in Brussels! I've just arrived in Brussels for the EU OS Week - it's my first time attending 👶 I'll be at the #OS Award Ceremony […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Birthdays are a time for cake, reflection, and moderating panel discussions about #OpenSource software in the #PublicSector (who knew? 😉) Yesterday, we celebrated #ZenDiS' first birthday at our Bochum headquarters, and it was great to have so many people in […] [Original post on techhub.social]

How a new dinner table for our Christmas guests got me thinking about modular ecosystems, a multiplayer drawing application, and a #community metrics webinar – this and more in a festive edition of Herding Cats 😺 Always happy to receive feedback. And if you ever want to share your own […]

I saw Sven Johne's "Heroes of Labor" at an exhibtion today and had to take a photo because it's LinkedIn on a wall :')

Today on Herding Cats, I'm reflecting on the events I've co-organised and attended recently, and how they can be used to foster meaningful relationships and create lasting impact. The newsletter also includes a project that turns websites into interactive canvases and touches on the 2024 State […]

As I'm changing both job and server, it's time for a re-#introduction: Hi, I'm Lea! After spending some time in adult education, I'll join the new German Centre for Digital Sovereignty (#ZenDiS) as Ecosystem Manager in April. Would love to connect over #FOSS #OpenSource #GovTech. Messages about […]