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A group of developers (mostly based in Germany: Peer Heinlein, Markus Michels, Dennis Kalbhen and more) launches OpenTalk, a new, modern architecture Video Conferencing solution that is presented as the Open Source and EUPL licensed European alternative to Zoom, WebEx (Cisco) or Teams (Microsoft). OpenTalk aims to demonstrate that quality, performance, usability, and security can be achieved without having to rely on a US-based cloud infrastructure, they said. “It’s the only way to ensure digital sovereignty and full transparency, because we have published the source code of OpenTalk under the…

Under the title “Data Analysis and Exploration with Visual Approaches” nine authors* delivered on 15 July 2022 a Springer Link study of the Earth system and its related processes, in order to perform a holistic examination and understanding of multidimensional data acquired with a large number of different sensors or produced by various models. To this end, the Digital Earth project developed a set of software solutions to study environmental data sets using visual approaches. In particular, the Digital Earth Viewer, which is open source and licensed under the EUPL, is a web application for…

Open Weaver is a private body led by experts with global technology and multi-industry experience and backed by private investors. It has offices in the US and India, and not in the European Union so far. This make absolutely no obstacle for adopting the EUPL for licensing components of its flagship product KANDI (pronounced kan·dee), which is a platform that helps developers pick the right library, package, code samples, APIs, and cloud functions, by analysing over 430 million knowledge items. In particular, the Virtual-Learning-Lab (C# library) is an open-source virtual reality game designed…

The German Federal IT Cooperation (FITKO) develops the Federal Development Portal as a part of the IT Planning Council project “FIT-Connect the Federal”. This portal (source code licensed under the EUPL) is the central place for technical documentation, development resources and implementation examples on standards and interfaces of the IT infrastructure of the German Federal State and of the 16 federated Länderns. The Portal is also a central contact point for software developers. Developers play a central role in the implementation of digital applications for the administration. They must be…

As reported by Ms Alexandra Molitorisova, Legal and regulatory officer at the CTU, the Czech public administration - the Czech Telecommunication Office (https://www.ctu.cz) has published on GitLab their new solution for coordinating radio station bands: https://gitlab.com/cesky-telekomunikacni-urad/rlan-ctu. The solution concerns an online portal (https://rlan.ctu.cz/en) in which users of frequencies in the bands 57-66 GHz band, 5,8 GHz and 5,2 GHz must register fixed outdoor radio Stations (MGWS point-to-point, MGWS point-to-multipoint, and Fixed Service links), and RLANs in the 5,2 and 5,8…