I'm really having high hopes of Schleswig Holstein doing of right (I'm also being prepared of these hopes being crushed 😸). A Swiss Linux podcast (Captain, It's Wednesday) did an interview with one of the politicians responsible for the project and it sounded like the looked at why these projects have failed in the past and are trying to learn from the mistakes:

https://gnulinux.ch/ciw085-podcast

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They started out with sort of a 'fail forward' approach where as German entities were encouraged to try and implement different types of open source software of OS'es. Those experiments have led to a broader understanding and in the meantime they funded the greater project that became OpenDesk.

This year they joined forced with the French government where the were doing the same sort of project with La Suite. The French and the German team joined in a 100 day sprint to deliver somewhere around September.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, that sounds nice! I think it would be very smart of Europe to build their own (open-source) infrastructure just in case someone not reliable were to become US president ... Can't hurt to start preparing (better far to late than never ...)