Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week ending March 3, 2023.
Nextcloud Taking On Microsoft and Google in Germany and the EU: Nextcloud announced on Wednesday that it now has a SharePoint replacement ready for production use, and that Deutsche Telekom has made Nextcloud Office available to the users of MagentaCLOUD.
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12 Reasons to Attend This Year’s Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 20x): Here’s a dozen reasons, in the form of a dozen items that are on this year’s schedule, to go to this year’s SCALE, which starts Thursday in Pasadena, California.
3-Years After Red Hat, Is Jim Whitehurst Still the ‘Open-Source Way’ Guy?: At an online media event held in early February, Red Hat’s former CEO talked about investing, open source, open governance, and of course, Red Hat.
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OpenForum Europe Mourns Passing of Co-Founder Basil Cousins: Basil Cousins, the co-founder and director of OpenForum Europe has died after a long illness.
It’s Board Election Time at Open Source Initiative Again: If this is March, it must be election time at OSI. This year, two individual seats and one affiliate seat are in the running.