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> But I am concerned a "OS for the EU" Initiative will end up like all EU IT projects, that being smothered by red tape and (political) comitee stewardship. "A

• dewey 1y ago
  > seems to be progressing reasonably well. By what metric would that be? Not doubting it but I've heard about it first a few days ago.
  • dc396 1y ago
    The folks involved in the project have been pretty open about their project plans/timelines, speaking about it in webinars and various conferences, and have largely followed what they claimed. Making it available to the public undoubtedly could've been faster, but sometimes "move fast, break things" isn't ideal... (particularly for infrastructure that folks want to depend upon).
    • dewey 1y ago
      > speaking about it in webinars and various conferences That's unfortunately the feeling I got from the landing page, lots of talking, bureaucracy and buzzword bingo and not much "doing". I might be wrong. For comparison https://letsencrypt.org https://letsencrypt.org, not a single mention of "webinars" or "stakeholders".
      • theK 1y ago
        That's what it looks like to me as well. I klocked through the home page on mobile, feels like 25 pages of "why this is a good thing" and a bit of self congratulatory acknowledgement but I didn't get any hint on how to participate, use it or where to see the code.
• tremon 1y ago
  How can they claim to be "4 EU" while having their entire website hosted on Hubspot, a US-based company?