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Unmaintained mkdocs dependency in ALASCA projects
by Friedrich Zahn Sept. 16, 2026

Sept. 16, 2026

Hi everyone, the FOCIS team would like to raise some awareness that several ALASCA projects make use of mkdocs v1, which has not seen a release for 2 years. Its development has been halted by the original author, resulting in some rather ugly fallout & forks in the community[0]. v2[1] will not be compatible and follows a rather unconventional, closed governance approach[2]. Not having any license, it's currently not free software. Affected ALASCA projects we've identified so far: - docs.alasca.cloud (ALASCA "governance" repo) - Arko - IXpect - Seconlay - Tarook (images/nginx-ingress) As a first, quick measure we recommend pinning your mkdocs dependency (to anything <2), to prevent an unwanted upgrade & breakage. If the ALASCA community comes up with a more concrete transition plan, we're happy to help implement it, especially for the ALASCA docs repo. Best regards Friedrich [0]: https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/4010 https://github.com/orgs/ProperDocs/discussions/33 [1]: https://github.com/encode/mkdocs [2]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2026/02/18/mkdocs-2.0/

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ALASCA - requesting input for the Community Digest for Q3
by Helena Ott Sept. 14, 2026

Sept. 14, 2026

Hi there projects representatives and TSC members, I hope everyone is doing well! It is once again time for the Community Digest, as we are nearing the end of Q3. I'd like to kindly ask a project representative for *each project* as well as a member of the TSC to provide me with the latest news and results of your work, so that I can feature it in the upcoming Community Digest. As always, short bullet points are totally fine, I'll happily integrate those contents into the existing layout. You can also send it as a written text, whatever takes the least amount of effort and time for you to do :-) Please send me your input until *Sunday, September 20th, *as I plan on writing the Digest next week. Thank you all and have a fantastic start to the week! 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 - Important News and Info
by Helena Ott July 14, 2026

July 14, 2026

Hi there TSC members and project representatives, I have a few news and further important info for you today and I'd like to start with the most important one. We have*about 2,5 weeks* on your*CfC for the ALASCA Summit* left and I'd like to kindly ask you to participate in it. It would be amazing, if we could once again have a *wide variety of talks and workshops about our association's own open-source projects at our Summit*. Please also feel free to spread the word! If you are connected to other communities or some other projects that come to mind, please share our cfc and *encourage people *to particiapte. We aim to present an interesting and well curated program at the ALASCA Summit for our community and need your help in order to achieve that! You can find all info on the *CfC on our website. * <https://alasca.cloud/alasca-summit-2026/alasca-summit-2026-programm/alasca-…> Furthermore, if you have topics, ideas or people you'd love to see at the Summit, please make sure to let us know, we are happy to do the work and send out the according inquiries. Hints on what the community would like to see and what's at the forefront of topics right now are extremely helpful to us! 🙂 Further news: 1) In last week's general assembly, the ALASCA members passed the Code of Conduct <https://docs.alasca.cloud/alasca/code-of-conduct/> for our association. I kindly ask you all to give it a read and consider yourselves informed 🙂 The CoC applies to all of our members, project communities as well as the broader community around ALASCA. Thanks! 2) We have now been able to implement an ALASCA Community calendar <https://alasca.cloud/community-calendar/> on our website, where the community can check on events, reoccuring meetings and subscribe to these calendars. Do any of our projects have reoccuring project calls, that are open to the community? Let me know and I'll gladly add them to the calendar. Thank you guys and have a great day! 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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