Earlier this year at FOSDEM, EU OS presented the lessons learned from its first year of developing and advocating for a common Linux-based desktop for the European public sector. Since then, the initiative has entered a new phase: moving from architecture, consultation and Proof-of-Concept towards testing in real public-sector environments. C-Smart from Belgium helps EU OS to take this next step.

The objective is not to present EU OS as a finished product, but to show how open source, interoperability and digital sovereignty can move from policy ambition to a testable and operational public-sector alternative for in this case Belgian local communes. The session will highlight what still needs to be solved — technically, organisationally and collaboratively — and how cooperation between public administrations, open-source communities and suppliers, including across the Benelux, can help make a sovereign digital workplace a realistic choice for European governments.