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Verslagje nota overleg 'Wolken aan de horizon'

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/verslagje-nota-overleg-wolken-aan-de-horizon/

Published: June 2, 2025 19:56

Vanochtend 2 juni was er in de Tweede Kamer een nota overleg over de initiatiefnota “Wolken aan de Horizon” van Barbara Kathmann (GL-PvdA) en Jesse Six Dijkstra (NSC). Er is vandaag ook al een voorlopig verslag gepubliceerd door de Tweede Kamer, dat doen…

Yeah, it is on YouTube or LinkedIn and has cookies

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/yeah-it-is-on-youtube-linkedin/

Published: May 31, 2025 14:48

So as a bit of a followup to my earlier post “What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech ”: please (mostly) stop harassing people doing the right thing from the wrong platforms. We often see journalists, politicians,…

Galileo's Testing Communications

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileos-testing-communications/

Published: May 28, 2025 11:50

When Galileo (the European satellite navigation system) was proposed there was a lot of criticism. “We already have the US GPS”, and we’d always be able to rely on our historical partner to take care of us. The US very much also said this. Yet, the EU…

What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/

Published: May 18, 2025 11:00

Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end it altogether. Everyone in the open tech scene is full of good intentions and we all want to improve things,…

Cloud Overview

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/

Published: May 8, 2025 11:00

Over the past few years I’ve written a lot about the cloud, and what it means for Europe. Here I want to pull the various articles together into a coherent story. Note, nothing what follows is in any way novel or original. While the facts presented in the…

A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy: building railroads for the cloud economy

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coherent-non-us-cloud-strategy/

Published: May 7, 2025 07:25

In the earlier post ‘But how to get to that European cloud?’ I alluded to a coherent strategy that might get us to such a non-US cloud. In the present article I hope to clarify what this could mean, and why I think it could work. Here I focus especially on…

But first, connect with your audience

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Published: May 2, 2025 17:21

I do a lot of talks and because of this I also attend quite a lot of them. I’ve previously shared some hopefully useful advice on how to give a decent presentation. But there’s something I’d like to add. I’m still somewhat on hiatus, but things appear to…

'The cloud' is not just servers. 'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/beware-cloud-is-part-of-the-software/

Published: April 27, 2025 07:05

The very brief version: “going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, whose…

Out of the Office: Into each life some rain must fall

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/out-of-office-in-every-life-some-rain-must-fall/

Published: April 20, 2025 16:39

It is written that into each life some rain must fall, and currently a lot is falling on my family. We’re getting very good care and lots of support, so please don’t worry about us. I’m told we’ll get out of this. Consider this my ‘out of office reply’ on…

Cloud Kootwijk: moties zijn aangenomen!

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Published: March 24, 2025 20:00

Ik moet ook nog even wennen aan het idee, maar “motie Cloud Kootwijk” is aangenomen (al heet ‘ie anders): "Motie van het lid Kathmann over een aanbesteding voor een rijkscloud in volledig Nederlands beheer" Deze motie kreeg van de regering de appreciatie…