For the second time, the leading minds of the Gaia-X scene met in Berlin on 5 and 6 September 2023 for GXFS Connect. While in 2022 the focus was still on the idea behind the initiative and the start of the German funded projects, this year more than 40 speakers…Read More
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Open Source pays off: 7 good reasons to get involved – even without financial support
Whether it’s the Internet, social networks or cloud platforms: Our digital infrastructure runs on open-source software. Europe’s new data ecosystem Gaia-X is also being developed using open-source technology. But in our conversations, we repeatedly encounter a wait-and-see attitude towards participating in open-source projects: What’s the benefit for us? Why not…Read More
In the context of the GXFS project activities and technological alignment with the recent developments of the Gaia-X Community/AISBL, the next set of tender has been published. With these tenders, the GXFS project is looking for potential implementation partners, who are able to implement the updated technical specifications for existing GXFS components…Read More
Gaia-X Federation Services toolbox moves under the Governance of the Eclipse Foundation
The Gaia-X Federation Services (GXFS-DE) project has been moved under the governance of the Eclipse Foundation where the GXFS components are maintained under the project Eclipse XFSC (Cross Federation Services Components). The XFSC components are still published under Apache License 2.0 and all technical specifications and related documents are available…Read More
The programme for the annual conference GXFS Connect taking place on 5 and 6 September 2023 in Berlin is now public: In discussion panels, keynotes and through networking opportunities, participants will exchange experiences and know-how on the advancements of Gaia-X e.g. through exchange with the Gaia-X funded projects and lighthouse…Read More
Gaia-X Federation Services have entered the next stage of expansion with the start of the second specification round of tenders. The specified trades serve to harmonize with revised architectural concepts, adapt the existing services to general technological developments and take conceptual changes from the Gaia-X community into account. The first…Read More
A visit to Tokyo: two industrialised nations finding their way into the data age
My involvement with Gaia-X has taken me all over Europe. But economies are struggling with the digital transformation – even 9,000 kilometres from Berlin and Brussels. A comparison with an exporting nation that is just as well known for its high-quality industrial products as Germany is revealing. Given the urgency…Read More
Gaia-X is just entering a critical phase: the sponsored projects are at the halfway point, and in less than two years’ time they aim to present operational solutions. At the same time, we are switching from contract production to community growth in our work on the Gaia-X Federation Services’ code….Read More
Which rules operators of critical infrastructures have to follow in the context of Gaia-X, is discussed in the new Gaia-X Federation Services (GXFS-DE) whitepaper “Information Security of Critical Infrastructures – Law and Regulation for Gaia-X and the Gaia-X Federation Services”. The whitepaper aims to clarify which IT infrastructures and services…Read More