mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06ALASCA e.V. is an association for open-source cloud infrastructure and our mission is the collaborative development of operational open-source projects. Through collaboration beyond projects, communities and countries we are driving digital sovereignty in Europe forward in a sustainable manner through creating a broad range of technological tools that enable the self-management of digital cloud infrastructures.
ALASCA at the SCS Summit 💚
We had the pleasure of enjoying the paneldiscussion "Open-Source Standards in der Praxis" and it was a hit! We had a great discussion with the ALASCA and SCS Communities.
True collaboration beyond organizational and technical bounds just makes sense and we’re happy to be a part of those communities!
The panel moderation by ALASCA's @Gerbsen@gruene.social was fantastic and we enjoyed the discussion
ALASCA FOCIS goes Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2026 💚
We were able to represent #ALASCA at #CLT26 for the first time and it was quite the experience. @Gerbsen@gruene.social's talk on our association was an absolute hit and if you missed it, you can find it here → https://media.ccc.de/v/clt26-144-shift-your-focis-digitale-souveranitat-mit-alasca
Enjoy!🎧💯
We are also happy with how our workshop on our project #Tarook, hosted by @toothstone@mstdn.io and Daniel, went.
Thank you to @clt_news@mastodon.social for organizing yet another great event!
Hello world! 💚
We're excited to join you here on mastodon and share all of our upcoming events, news from the community and further announcements and insights here with you.
Starting off strong with @FOSSBackstage@floss.social, where @Gerbsen@gruene.social will be giving a talk, titled: Saxony in Action: Supporting a lasting FOSS Foundation. 🎤
Find us on March 17th at 10:35 in the Auditorium or out in the hall and let's have a chat!
Can't wait to meet everyone there. 💯
ALASCA is proud to support OpenForum Europe's initiative towards an EU Sovereign Tech Fund in order to strenghten open-source technology and open standards.💪💯
The in the letter proposed EU Sovereign Tech Fund aims to be an initiative to secure, maintain and strengthen our open digital infrastructure here in Europe.
You can check out the whole letter here 👉 https://eu-stf.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/EU-Sovereign-Tech-Fund-Public-Support-Letter_v5.pdf
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #EUPolicy #Cybersecurity #DigitalEurope
We have an amazing Tech-Talk topic in the pipeline for our community. Tassilo Tanneberger (@revol_xut@c3d2.social), Chairman of the Board at @dd_ix@dresden.network, will be our guest this month and he'll be introducing you to an open-source projects, that they have just recently handed to ALASCA - IXpect.
This will be great chance for everyone to get to know our new ALASCA project
Sounds exciting? Join us on May 29th at 11 am 👉 https://lnkd.in/d2NswY2r
On May 21st the community around the Sovereign Cloud Stack is meeting in Berlin and we are contributing in 2 ways:
Panel moderation: Open-Source-Standards in der Praxis
Daniel Gerber @Gerbsen@gruene.social
bUm Berlin - Auditorium
15:30-16:15
Talk: OpenStack SCS-konform bereitstellen: kinderleicht dank Yaook-Operator
Matthias Büchse @drmabuese@social.tchncs.de
bUm Berlin - Auditorium
16.45-17:00
We’re excited to see everyone there. Get your ticket here https://sovereigncloudstack.org/insights/scs-summit-2026/#tickets.
It is Tech-Talk week! 💚🎉
This friday we are very excited to welcome Vasu Chandrasekhara into our Tech-Talk to hear all about the NeoNephos Foundation!
We are looking forward to hear, what Vasu has got to say about some of the challenges around IPCEI and invite you all to join us this Friday at 11 am! 💪
See you then 👋
The Call for Contribution for the ALASCA Summit 2026 is currently open and we'd love it if you would be a part of it! 💚
You could either 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.
- Lightning talks (10 min)
- presentations (20 min)
- workshop (3h)
Turn in your contribution until July 31!
https://alasca.cloud/en/alasca-summit-2026/alasca-summit-2026-programme/alasca-summit-2026-call-for-contributions/
THANK YOU @FOSSBackstage@floss.social!
Open-source is so much more than code. This year’s focus was on different community aspects, legal questions and the complexity around funding for open-source.
We are very grateful for the opportunity to represent ALASCA with our talk “Saxony in Action: Supporting a Lasting FOSS Foundation”, held by @Gerbsen@gruene.social. It was amazing to whitness the interest from the Open-Source community towards our association. 💚
ALASCA was part of #DevDay26 in Dresden and it was a blast.💫 Our chairman, Marius Feldmann, spoke at the DevDay and gave the audience an overview of the ALASCA tech stack. The talk showed how our originally developed LCM Yaook has started a foundation, that has now grown into a broader, sovereign open-source cloud ecosystem. We walked through architecture, core components and integration patterns and took a look at the developing sovereign open source cloud ecosystem.
#Yaook Update 🚀
For the first time, #Yaook joined the @OpenInfra@social.openinfra.dev Project Teams Gathering (PTG), where project teams align on upcoming features and next release cycles.
Key topics discussed yesterday:
• SBOM generation & improvements to the image build process
• enhancements to release notes
• support for additional storage backends
Great to exchange ideas across the open source community and collaborate on continuous improvement. 💪
ALASCA has got some exciting news to start off the new week!☕📰
We have published our Community Digest for quarter one of 2026 and have shared all about our new members, new projects and what we’ve been been up to! 💪
If you’re interested in finding out what’s new with ALASCA, you can find our Community Digest here → https://alasca.cloud/alasca-community-digest-no-8/
Have fun diving in🌞
💚 Launching ALASCA OpenSnac - the Podcast from and for the Open-Source Cloud-Community 💚
After months of work we are excited to announce the launch of our ALASCA OpenSnac.
With our member UhuruTec AG, we want to create a space for open, genuine and unscripted conversations with guests from the OpenStack, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure world.
Find all information towards our podcast on our website 👉 https://alasca.cloud/alasca-opensnac-der-podcast/ 🎧
ALASCA welcomes NeoNephos to this month's Tech-Talk!
We are excited to have Vasu Chandrasekhara from the NeoNephos Foundation join us in our April Tech-Talk! 💯
In his talk, he'll address the challenges posed within the IPCEI, outline some of the technical considerations of NeoNephos, and delve into a project featuring a new, innovative approach.
Sounds good to you?
Make sure to join us on April 24th at 11 am 👉 https://bbb.cloudandheat.com/rooms/a6x-ubv-eje-uuv/join
See you then 👋
A few weeks ago, ALASCA was represented at the Open Sovereign Cloud Day at #KubeCon — an exciting time for us. 💯
We were excited to see ALASCA mentioned in a presentation by Martin Pilka (dNation) and Karsten Samaschke (VanillaCore), where the showcased solution was built on ALASCA’s technologies #Yaook and #Arko. Seeing our work highlighted on such a stage is really exciting to us.
It’s great to see our members representing ALASCA at events. Thanks!💪
Join us in Stuttgart for our 2nd ALASCA Community Hackathon! 💚
We’ll be spending two days working in small groups on different topics in order to further develop our open-source projects and foster that connection within and also between our project's communities.
📆 July 1st-2nd 2026
📍 Vaihingen near Suttgart
Register here for your free ticket 👉 https://pretix.eu/focis/alasca-hackathon/
We'd love to have you join us!
It's TechTalk week 🌞
We are excited to welcome Marc Schöchlin (@scoopex@mastodon.social) from UhuruTec AG as our guest in March. Join us on Friday at 11 am and learn about the open-source project #uMon, allowing for highly advanced standardized observability at scale through a "community at practice" approach.
We are thrilled to put our nerd hats on and dive in deep into a yet another technology. Can't wait to see you there.
Join in here 👉 https://bbb.cloudandheat.com/rooms/a6x-ubv-eje-uuv/join
ALASCA goes Chemnitzer Linux Tage 💪
The CLT on March 28th-29th are approaching quickly and we are excited to announce our participation in this year’s event and schedule.
Talk: Shift your FOCIS: Digitale Souveränität mit ALASCA
👤 Daniel Gerber
📅 March 28th, 10 am
📍 Room: V6
Workshop: Tarook: US-Hyperscaler-freies Kubernetes auf OpenStack
👥 Friedrich Zahn, Daniel Gerber
📅 March 29th, 2pm-5pm
📍 Room: K2
ALASCA Booth - come find us 💚
Starting the week off strong 💪
If you missed last month’s Tech-Talk - no worries! Our March Tech-Talk with Marc Schöchlin (@scoopex@mastodon.social) from our member UhuruTec AG on their project #uMon is up on our YouTube Channel.
Follow along on Marc’s presentation on how uMon aims to provide a standardized approach to collecting and processing metrics, log files, and traces.
To chatch up on last month’s Tech-Talk, check out this link 👉 https://youtu.be/WWUZPAfQKVU
We are excited to announce our Tech-Talk guest for June and can't wait to welcome Tor Lund-Larsen, CEO at Cyberus Technology. 💪💯
He'll be introducing the new Cyberus Hypervisor to us and focus on why this one is special. We are excited to walk through some real world deployment scenarios and use cases.
📅 June 26, 2026, 11 am CET
📍 https://bbb.cloudandheat.com/rooms/a6x-ubv-eje-uuv/join
Our sessions are always recorded, so if you ever miss a topic you're interested in you can check those out
Welcome to ALASCA , VanillaCore! 💚
VanillaCore builds cloud-native, open-source, and AI-driven infrastructure solutions for businesses and public-sector organizations.
“We at VanillaCore strongly believe that open source cloud technology is key to digital sovereignty. And open source is always developed within a strong community. In ALASCA we find both: a thriving community working on open source technology to foster digital sovereignty globally!”, Karsten Samaschke, CEO.
Our ALASCA Hackathon draws closer 💪
Along side of groups working on Tarook and Yaook, you can get involved with our newer project Seconlay and our initiative Scomb - ALASCAs attempt of a SONiC Community build from within our own commuity. Last but not least there will be a group working on an AI policy for our association, lead by ALASCAs Technical Steering Committee.
📅 July 1st - 2nd
📍 Urban Spaces Stuttgart-Vaihingen
Register here 👉 https://pretix.eu/focis/alasca-hackathon/
Our open-source project Seconlay, formerly known as SCL, is a minimal IaaS for strong client separation and was officially brought to ALASCA at the end of last year.
With a relatively small Trusted Computing Base and the strict separation of control plane and data plane, it was developed specifically for areas of application with high requirements. Seconlay was developed and open-sourced by our member secunet, who ultimately made the decision to give their project into the hands of ALASCA.💯
The ALASCA Tech-Talk No. 35 is now live on our YouTube Channel! 💪
What makes this already nice and sunny day into a 10/10 is the opportunity to enjoy the latest ALASCA Tech-Talk, held by Vasu Chandrasekhara from the NeoNephos Foundation 😉🌞
If you missed last month's Tech-Talk on the technical ecosystem within the NeoNephos Foundation, don't worry, you can check it out here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzkrbW_J7U0
A big thank you again to Vasu!
#DevDay 2026 is coming up and ALASCA is contributing a really cool talk, presented by our chairman Marius Feldmann. In his presentation he’ll provide an overview of ALASCA’s tech stack and examine the architecture, core components, integration, and technical development of these tools, which contribute to a robust and self-sufficient open-source cloud ecosystem.
📅 May 5th, 16:00-16:30
📍 Messe Dresden, Raum Hamburg
Make sure to catch ALASCA’s talk! 💯💚
#alascacloud devday26
