 Thank you for attending my session on digital serenity and why open infrastructure matters My name is Edad Idrich. I'm working for the serving cloud sec project as a community manager The SDS project is a funded project by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Germany And is hosted by the open-source business alliance an association for the open-source industry in Germany and beyond SDS is a project of providers joining forces to implement define and Consolidate an open-source based stack for cloud and container Technology putting users and providers back in control But I'm not here to present our serving cloud sec project. I'm here because we need to talk We need to talk about a term and the notion that is highly overused highly Redefined and we need to be clear as a community of the open infrastructure Foundation what we mean by digital serenity Because if you follow recent media and news coverage on cloud technology, you may have heard of digital serenity But the offerings are highly Different they range from open-stack-based classes up to Local spin-offs of GCP Azure in the corresponding jurisdiction and we need to be clear what we mean with digital serenity because Is this digital serenity if we provide local spin-offs of proprietary cloud stacks in the corresponding jurisdiction or Do we have the same vendor log-ins we have as if they were enabled and operated in other countries so Before we talk about digital serenity, let's step back and talk about serenity in a general sense There exists perhaps no conception the meaning of which is more Controversial than that of serenity and this was said 210 years earlier and I think this is still true And this can build the still be applied to the digital serenity debate running now So if we try to find a common definition we may be able to comply on the term supreme authority within a territory and This notion of territory does not need to be restricted to the pure landmass But also to the resources lying on that territory may it be human infrastructures or others in The eye of the current situation in in the war on Ukraine You may have heard of the current debates around food serenity or energy serenity meaning that the means of production Under control of the corresponding countries and they are able to provide either food or energy to the people in the country and beyond but What is meant by digital serenity who is in the control of the running cloud of the services on that hardware located somewhere and This is the point where the different offerings divides and all mean Different means different meanings arise from the term digital serenity We at the submarine clouds that project have developed fall layer Scheme where we try to define the digital serenity as more than mere legal compliance because we need much more than just legal compliance We need open infrastructure. We need open source communities We need competence and and what want to present you what we define by digital serenity. So on the bottom layer we have this legal dimension services are running in the current in the Corresponding jurisdiction and the state has the authority to control these services in a way They define it, but there's much more we need for to for self-determination in the digital digital realm For example, we need this freedom of choice as a user. I want to be able to choose between different offerings I don't want to be tied to one single vendor solution And I want to be freely able to migrate my workloads from vendor a to vendor B or between different solutions We need regarding the technological dimension. We need open technology. This means we need Open-source technology baked up by an open community Baked up by the four opens of the open infrastructure and we need more we need competence because this whole stack somehow needs to be operated securely and Confidentially so if we step back and look at the bottom layer we may Arise the question even if data is processed and stored solely in Europe Isn't there still a strong dependency on one single software vendor comparable to Azure GCP you name it? So to solve this Let's add more alternatives You can choose as I said between vendors between solutions but this is not the end of our journey to digital serenity because Even if I can choose between different offerings, how can I influence the future evolution of the software? How can I make an impact so that the software I am using is evolving in the current in the right direction? I am able to use it also in the future and If we want to have this power of influence, we could just use open source software But is this the end of our journey is using open source software? defining and Underlying digital serenity No, because we need more than just open source software and This is where the open info foundation made a big step ahead by defining the four opens Because even if I can inspect use modify and share the software How can I contribute to design decisions or upstream code? How can I get involved into the community and Shape this product as I need it as a user and this is there the fantastic for come into play. We need open communities open Design open development and open source defined by the open info foundation and these are This is the foundation to be digital serenity in the sense of I can influence and shape the product I am using and have an impact on future design decisions, but Are we done yet? Am I fully serene? I'm fully self determined on running software No, because even if I can participate in the community developing the software how the heck am I supposed to run this whole stack at scale and This is not trivial because Open source when does lends to the tends to Keep the whole operating Knowledge secret and this is something we try to overcome Because for true self-determination in the ever-growing digital realm We urgently need to build skills and share this knowledge really and in unlimited ways Exactly as we have done it with open source software 40 40 years ago and we try and must now build up this operational knowledge to be Shared freely in the community so that we can build growing communities that operate stuff wall secure and at scale If you curious what we mean by open operations in respect to open source software, I invite you to To the session of court and Phoenix today at 3 20 p.m. Where we try to Begin the discussions around open operations and to gather a community around this concept of sharing knowledge really and Building this knowledge community around operational task. So join them and Get in touch with us to build this fifth Open the open operations So if you look back at our four layers Legal dimension freedom of choice technological dimension and the dimension of competence to run this whole stack We can truly define digital sanity as the top of these four layers so if I want to be self-determined and be freely in my choices what to run where to run and How to contribute into the future? We need to build Freedom of choice technology dimension and the competence on the bottom of legal Aspects if you want to read more on our perception of digital sanity and that this is just more than Just legal compliance as Azure or GCP try to really find this term then feel free to get a copy of our White paper that has been printed in the cloud report We have a German and an English Version you can get a free copy at the booth of B1 systems that is located at booth A3 on the upper layer And join us in the discussions around digital sanity or read on on our blog on sts.com we try to Shift the whole discussion that has been Captured by the hyperscalers into the right direction by defining more than legal compliance by trying to embrace Open communities open technology and open operational knowledge, so let's come back Is this digital sanity we must say no and we must Make an impact on this discussion and try to really find it and demystify Digital sanity and embrace these open technology hosted by an open community with open operational knowledge So join these discussion stop hyperscalers bullshitting around with the term digital sanity And let us redefine this term into the right direction because it needs much more than just running proprietary software in In the corresponding jurisdiction. We need these opens to run software and technology self-determined for a better future and Yeah, join us and let us shape this discussion into the right direction Thank you for attending this session hope to have inspired you and connect with the people running and fighting for digital sanity Thank you We have some minutes left if you have questions if you want to contribute to this discussion feel free to grab the microphone and Contribute to the discussion. So if this is not the case, thank you for attending the session hope to see you soon and Let's demystify this whole notion. Thank you