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We blog about many different topics. Sometimes this is news on things that happen on Kopano, or simply something that we felt was interesting to share about how our teams work. Our blogs also reflect on tech- and non-tech news that relates to us or affects us. Stay tuned!

Competences and skills bundled – structural changes at Kopano

“We don’t get everything right, but we get a lot of things right.” This fundamental finding regarding our commitment to our core topics of Open Source […]

March 5, 2021
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Tracked by spy pixels in E-Mails

Tracking technologies have become a major part of our daily interaction online. Most of the time we are aware that a company is observing and tracking […]

March 3, 2021
Open Source

Kopano integrates Lightmeter for private cloud groupware service certainty

The Kopano collaboration suite has gained sophisticated mailops monitoring thanks to a new integration available from today. Self-hosted Open Source Kopano groupware and video conferencing can […]

March 2, 2021
Digital sovereignty pathways for the public sector

Pathways out of digital dependency

The “digital sovereignty of public administration” in Germany had already been named in 2019 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior under Horst Seehofer (CSU) as […]

February 24, 2021
Open Source
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Kopano Kraph – perfectly connected and digitally sovereign

I am an “as-well-as” fan. On the one hand, I want to have digital sovereignty, i.e. be independent of top dogs like Microsoft. On the other […]

February 17, 2021
Open Source
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Kopano 2021 – “Your data, your terms” applies more than ever before

For several years now, politicians and, in fact, most of Europe have been talking a lot about digital sovereignty and the control over our data that […]

February 10, 2021
Open Source
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Digital patient file – your data under your control?!

Since 01 January 2021, the time has come – the electronic patient record (ePA) is to offer all insured persons in Germany the voluntary opportunity to […]

February 3, 2021
Open Source
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“One Kopano-to-Go, please!” …

… or: How do I get my own mail and communication server in just 30 minutes? This question came to me when my daughter got her […]

January 27, 2021
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A thought experiment: Enriching connections between apps with Solid

In preparation discussions for out talk at this years Cloud Storage Services for Synchronization and Sharing (CS3) conference we also briefly discussed the Solid project. And […]

January 25, 2021
Open Source
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Digital Sovereignty and Democracy

“The German government is critical of the blocking of US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account,” the Süddeutsche Zeitung recently wrote. What was going on there? Wasn’t […]

January 20, 2021
Open Source