Hello everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing Christmas and a good start to the new year. I wish you all the best of luck, success, and above all, good health for 2026. After our Christmas break, we would like to kick off the new year with a new Tech-Talk at the end of the month. On Friday, January 30, 2026, you can look forward to the following exciting talk: --- *How to build an SCS-compliant cloud environment for the benefit of the ALASCA community */ Matthias Büchse (ALASCA FOCIS)/ With ALASCA FOCIS, we want to publicly establish the viability of open solutions through case studies we do in cooperation with relevant parties. Case in point: ALASCA founding member C&H recently set up a new SCS-compliant OpenStack cluster, donating big parts to the ALASCA community to work on the ALASCA stack, to host Gitlab runners, and other things. We accompanied this installation, providing advice regarding SCS compliance, and we observed the process in order to prepare comprehensive documentation. In this talk, I will show how this installation was done (in particular with respect to SCS compliance), how the ALASCA stack enables this installation, what services are already available, and how to apply for resources on this environment. --- You can find more information on the ALASCA Tech-Talks here: https://alasca.cloud/alasca-tech-talks/ Please feel free to forward this invite to other interesting persons within your company or network. We are looking forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions regarding the ALASCA Tech-Talk(s) or if you would like to present a topic yourself, we'd be happy to hear about it. All the best, Franzi -- Franziska Feldmann 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@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/en/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