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ALASCA Community Digest just dropped 💚
by Helena Ott July 14, 2026

July 14, 2026

Hi there 💚 this quarter's ALASCA Community Digest just dropped! Go ahead and have a read, if you're interested in finding out what we've been up to these last 3 months 😇 https://alasca.cloud/alasca-community-digest-no-9/ <https://alasca.cloud/alasca-community-digest-no-9/> Have a great start to the day! -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA - FOCIS project update
by Helena Ott June 29, 2026

June 29, 2026

Hi there ALASCA Community! I hope, everyone is well. We just had our *FOCIS update call*, and everything went great. Because the invitation was sent out on short notice (we wanted to offer this session before everyone’s summer vacations start at different times), many of you were unable to attend. That’s why *we’ve decided to offer this session a second time* - this time with a bit more notice - on *July 31, 2026, at 9:30 a.m*. As we compiled the information, we realized once again just how many different things we’ve already been able to implement within the FOCIS context, and we’d love to share that with our members and our community. *We’d be thrilled if you could all join us!* You can join via this link: https://bbb.cloudandheat.com/rooms/xzd-3ry-r2o-hdx/join Greetings and a great start to the eek everyone! Helena -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA Tech-Talk May Recording live on our YouTube Channel
by Helena Ott June 17, 2026

June 17, 2026

Hi there 💚 The ALASCA Tech-Talk recording of our May talk with Tassilo Tanneberger from DD-IX is now live on our YouTube Channel for everyone to watch! If you missed it, make sure to check this one out. Tassilo did a great job at presenting the project IXpect! You can find this Tech-Talk as well as all of our previous ones here 👉️ https://youtu.be/IyX4u8nN2jE Enjoy! And thanks again to Tassilo for a great talk! Helena -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA Summit 2026 - general information
by Helena Ott June 15, 2026

June 15, 2026

Hi there ALASCA community I hope you're all doing well and had a wonderful weekend. Today, I'd like to share some updates regarding the ALASCA Summit and bring everyone up to speed. *_ALASCA Summit 2026_* * 3. and 4. November 2026 * Mighty Twice Hotel Dresden <https://www.twicehotels.de/dresden> *_Pre Evening Event_* * An informal and relaxed get-together for everyone arriving the day before * November 2, 2026, from 7:30 PM onwards * Augustiner an der Frauenkirche <https://augustiner-dresden.com/> *_Registration _* As every year, registration for the ALASCA Summit 2026 is completely free of charge. We're gradually moving into the detailed planning phase of the event (T-shirts, catering, etc.), so we would be very grateful if you could already register for the Summit if you know you'll be joining us again this year. This helps us plan a little better and gives us a good sense of how many guests to expect. You can complete your free registration here <https://alasca.cloud/alasca-summit-2026/alasca-summit-2026-tickets/>. *_Accomodation_* *An important note for everyone traveling from outside Dresden: *This year, our event venue is located in a hotel in *Dresden's Neustadt district,* where you're very welcome to book your accommodation if you'd like to stay on-site.*ALASCA has blocked all rooms *for the period from *November 2–4 *so that as many of our guests as possible can stay at the event location. As a result, you*won't *find these rooms available through the hotel's regular online booking system during that time. To book a room for the ALASCA Summit at the Mighty Twice Hotel, you can either contact the hotel*by phone with the booking keyword "ALASCA" or send an email to reservierung(a)dresden.twicehotels.de using the keyword "ALASCA".* You can find room rate information here <https://alasca.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2026-alasca-summit-hotel-re…>. Please note that the room block is only guaranteed until *August 2nd. *After that date, any remaining rooms will be released for general sale. If you'd like to stay at the event venue, I'd therefore encourage you to make your reservation *sooner rather than later.* *_Program_* As every year, we're looking forward to putting together a diverse and high-quality program for our community. Our Call for Contributions is currently open, and we'd be delighted if you once again submitted talks, lightning talks, and workshops. The *Call for Contributions <https://alasca.cloud/alasca-summit-2026/alasca-summit-2026-programm/alasca-…>* will remain open until*July 31, 2026, *and we'll provide feedback to submitters regarding the acceptance of their proposals as quickly as possible. At the moment, we're planning to publish the ALASCA Summit 2026 program towards the *end of August or beginning of September.* We're already very much looking forward to another successful ALASCA Summit together with all of you and would like to thank you for your tremendous support and engagement. Greetings from Dresden, and wishing you a great start to the new week. Best regards, Helena -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA - Community Digest Q1 & ALASCA OpenSnac Podcast Launch 🎙
by Helena Ott April 17, 2026

April 17, 2026

Hi there ALASCA community and happy friday! We're absolutely thrilled to finally share our*ALASCA OpenSnac — the podcast by and for the open-source cloud community* — with all of you. Over the past few months, we've been working behind the scenes together with UhuruTec to turn this idea into reality. The podcast is meant to be a space for our*community to exchange knowledge and connect,* and we aim to create a *space for open, honest, and unscripted conversations *on topics like *OpenStack, Kubernetes, and everything else that keeps our open-source cloud infrastructure industry busy day in and day out. * True to the open-source spirit, we've decided to build the podcast *without relying on any proprietary software* — we're using Castopod <https://cp.uhurutec.com/@alasca_opensnac>for hosting and open-source alternatives for directories for listing such as fyyd.de <https://fyyd.de/podcast/alasca-opensnac/0> and podastindex.org <https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7812081>. You can find all the information about our podcast on our Website <https://alasca.cloud/alasca-opensnac-der-podcast/>. We hope you enjoy tuning in, and we're always happy to receive suggestions for topics and guests! We're genuinely delighted that we were able to bring this project to life together with our member UhuruTec, and we're deeply grateful to our community for your continued commitment. If you have further ideas for how we can keep driving ALASCA forward, please don't hesitate to reach out! In addition to that, we have also *pulished our Community Digest for Q1*. As always, this edition of the Community Digest <https://alasca.cloud/alasca-community-digest-no-8/> is packed with news about new members and projects, updates on our association activities, and a status quo on our ongoing projects. Have a great friday and a nice weekend! Greetings Helena -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA Community Hackathon - Invitation
by Helena Ott March 30, 2026

March 30, 2026

Hey everyone, I am very excited to announce our second ALASCA community Hackathon. We are inviting you all to join us on July 1st and 2nd in Stuttgart at Urban Spaces (https://urbanspaces.de/de) to get together again and spend 2 days working on and further advancing our projects as well as related topics! 💯 Please reach out if you have a topic that you would like to bring to bring to the hackathon. We highly appreciate your initiative. On the evening of day 1, July 1st, all hackathon participants are once again invited to join the summer party of our member UhuruTec and enjoy some good food, conversation and overall great company. Since we were all quite happy with last year's event, we decided to keep it simple for everybody and chose the same location and agenda as last year. If you'd like to participate, please register for your free ticket and make sure to let us know if you'd like to stay for the evening event on day 1. You can do so here: https://pretix.eu/focis/alasca-hackathon/ We are really looking forward to get the chance to see everyone again! Make sure to share the information regarding the hackathon and extend the invitation to your companies, communities and networks! Greetings from Dresden Helena -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA is now active on mastodon!
by Helena Ott March 18, 2026

March 18, 2026

Hiii all and happy Wednesday 💚 Sharing some fun news with you all today! ALASCA is now active on mastodon and we're super excited to be sharing our ALASCA related topics, community news and announcements to our events. We'd love it if you could support us on that journey and make sure to follow our account, so that you don't miss out on any new information. In addition, we'd appreciate it, if you could share our account with your own communities and within your companies. We'd love to establish a space on Mastodon, where our community and the specific project communities can connect, share knowledge and keep informed on all ALASCA related topics. Thanks so much! Excited to get started! Greetins from dresden Helena -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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Help needed: 3-Minute Survey for FOSS Backstage Talk
by Daniel Gerber March 5, 2026

March 5, 2026

Dear ALASCA members, developers, supporters and friends, In a few days I will be giving a talk at this years FOSS Backstage in Berlin. To ensure that I represent the perspectives and priorities of our community accurately, as well as help guiding ALASCA’s work going forward, I would appreciate it if you could take a moment to answer this short survey: https://nextcloud.cloudandheat.com/apps/forms/s/qMYM4FiNfjkzfCzybSGcoFYM It should not take you more then 3 minutes, the answer are anonymous and can be given till Friday the 13th of March, 23:59. Please excuse duplicate notification of this survey and please share it within our community. Cheers, Daniel P.S: In case you need an English version please contact me directly! —— Dr. Daniel Gerber Softwaredeveloper ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 daniel.gerber(a)alasca.cloud | https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier: https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA Summit 2026 - Call for Contribution is live
by Helena Ott March 3, 2026

March 3, 2026

Hi everybody! We're excited to announce, that we've officially opened up our*Call for Contribution* <https://alasca.cloud/en/alasca-summit-2026/alasca-summit-2026-programme/ala…> for the ALASCA Summit 2026! This year's motto: /With C – as in Community. Breaking down technical silos united for a digitally sovereign Europe./ Would you like to introduce a new project, present a use case or share „lessons learnt“ with the community? We are looking for a variety of technical submissions in the area of open source cloud infrastructure and look forward to many different topics. You can submit the following formats for this year's ALASCA Summit: * Lightning Talk (10 minutes) * Talk (20 minutes) * Workshop (3 hours): When submitting a workshop, we kindly ask you to include information regarding hardware, software and skill requirements in the abstract. The Call for Contribution is open until *31.05.2026. *In the weeks following that date, an evaluation and selection of all submitted contributions will be carried out and we will then inform you about the decision to include your submission in our programme for the ALASCA Summit 2026. We are super excited to see all of your contributions coming in throughout the following weeks and months and can't wait to curate a valuable, information packed programme for our community! Check out our*ALASCA Summit website * <https://alasca.cloud/en/alasca-summit-2026/>for more info regardign the event. Greetings from Dresden your ALASCA Summit Team __ *ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V.* c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud <mailto:hello@alasca.cloud> | https://alasca.cloud/ /Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk./ Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier: https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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ALASCA - Chemnitzer Linux Tage Booth Support
by Helena Ott Feb. 24, 2026

Feb. 24, 2026

Hi everyone, we've got some great news: ALASCA was accpeted for a talk, a workshop and a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux Tage on March 28th and 29th! 🎉 The FOCIS Team will be there and we are very excited about it. Since I unfortunately can't make the event, we have a free slot for the booth. We can bring 4 people to CLT free of charge to occupy the booth (you don't need to be at the booth ALL the time) and since it is an ALASCA booth, I'd like to extend the invitation to our community. Would anyone like to join us and represent ALASCA at CLT? We would love your support on this. If you have someone in mind, who'd like to join or if you'd like to join yourself, please reach out. Excited to hear from you. Greetings from Dresden Helena -- Helena Ott Communication and Documentation Specialist ALASCA - Verband für betriebsfähige, offene Cloud-Infrastrukturen e.V. c/o Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Königsbrücker Straße 96 | 01099 Dresden +49 351 479 367 00 hello(a)alasca.cloud |https://alasca.cloud/ Let's learn. Let's discuss. Let's inspire. Let's tech-talk. Alle News zu den ALASCA-Tech-Talks gibt es hier:https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Verantwortliche i.S.d. § 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Dr. Marius Feldmann (Vorsitzender | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH) Josephine Seifert (Stellvertretende Vorsitzende) Steffen Brauß (Schatzmeister | Schwarz IT KG) Registergericht: Amtsgericht Dresden Registernummer: VR 12961 Steuernummer: 202/140/21049

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