“It’s good to look at alternatives to the Microsofts and Googles of this world. You want to be in charge of your data yourself and not rashly hand it over. So it is also about reclaiming a bit of autonomy,” says Daniel Ostkamp, researcher at Radboud University.
The project is organized by SURF, a cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions in which the members combine their strengths to acquire or develop the best possible digital services, and to “encourage knowledge sharing through continuous innovation,” the cooperative says on its website.
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This is important. Some people just aren’t aware of the massive privacy violations that are going on, so the education system should teach them and show how good FOSS is compared to crap like sharepoint.
For three months, therefore, together with some members, we experimented on the open source platform Nextcloud.
I think the experiment is over.
During the trial period and the evaluations, it showed that participants could get on well with Nextcloud and that the platform is applicable in practice.
“A logical next step is a scaled-up trial period in which we investigate whether Nextcloud can be included in the service portfolio,” says Van Himbergen.
There is hope
Great news!
SURF fucking rocks.
Among a LOT of other things, they offer a bunch of alternatives for big tech products based on open source software.
Didn’t they already have surfdrive for like 5 years?
