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
An interview with Michael Plagge, Ecosystem Development Director, Eclipse Foundation Almost all open-source digital sovereignty projects are now with Europe’s largest open-source foundation. In future, the Eclipse Foundation will also moderate the developer community for the Gaia-X Federation Services. According to Michael Plagge, Ecosystem Development Director, the individual projects are…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
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
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action launched its call for expressions of interest. It will select the projects and companies to participate in this summer’s European Twinning process. Interested partners can apply until 21 July to the public call. The IPCEI-CIS will create an efficient ‘multi-vendor cloud-edge continuum’…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
Create more value digitally and give more weight to Europe as a data location: Gaia-X is driving the shift from a product-centric to a data-centric world. At Cloud Expo Europe, the IT industry discussed why the economy and society need cloud technology. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an energy crisis,…Read More
