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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

An epic intro for an epic year ;) Well, the quote is actually from the fantasy novel series Wheel of Time and sometimes comes to my mind when I reflect on all the things that happened in the last year, all the things that change while in the grand scheme there is quite some repetition. (I’ve not finished the series so far. Initially I started reading it when I was 15. I started several times but always got stuck somewhere in the middle where there are some rather lengthy episodes.)

For the readers capable of reading german: My colleague Josfine and I wrote a nice editorial for the January edition of the OSBA newsletter. This could be a subtle way of spilling the first big news: Part of me is now project lead for the OSBA part of the ECO:DIGIT project. If you want the gist of what we do, watch the recording of the ten minute talk Josefine gave at FOSDEM 2025. The cloud parts of ECO:DIGIT are closely tied to the SCS effort. While part of ECO:DIGIT is looking at how the environmental impact of hyperscaler workloads can be measured and assessed - one of the focus areas to enable SCS environments to be transparent about the methodology for measuring and assessing the carbon foootprint. Which brings me to the other big item - well, it is not really news, since we’ve been talking a_lot about it:

We’ve managed to assure that the Sovereign Cloud Stack project, which was funded by the German Ministry of Economic affairs and climate action for the past four years, continues to strive past the funding timeframe. This is quite an achievement and I’m thrilled that enough companies (and the people who steer these) are convinced that it makes sense to pursue the effort of certifiable standards for cloud computing. We’ve founded the “Forum SCS-Standards” within the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) - Press Release - this is the translated version. The original is here. Together with my colleagues I’ve been working on this throughout the last year.

The “Forum SCS-Standards” governs the Standardization, Certification as well as the Trademark. For this staff employed by the OSBA is a must. For once to assure focus exists but just as important to keep neutrality. I’ll be leading this effort from the OSBA side. Together with ECO:DIGIT there will be lot’s of synergy.