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SUMMARY:[Ai]lice: A sovereign\, Customisable AI chatbot for Safe and Conte
 xtualised learning - Nathan Lenas
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DESCRIPTION:At LMDDC\, we have been building [AI]lice for more than two ye
 ars and running it in production since December 2025. It is an AGPL-licens
 ed RAG application that lets any educator build a chatbot grounded in thei
 r own course material\, hosted entirely on LMDDC’s infrastructure. Teach
 ers upload documents or connect a Moodle course\, write the system instruc
 tions that define how the chatbot behaves pedagogically\, and publish it t
 o their learners. Every answer cites the material it came from\, and no co
 nversation is stored by default.\nThis talk is about what it takes to buil
 d and run that in-house. We present the architecture and the open componen
 ts it relies on\, the constraints that sovereignty and teacher oversight i
 mposed on the design\, and what self-hosting actually demands in hardware
 \, energy and maintenance. We close with where we intend to take the proje
 ct next\, and the questions we have not yet answered.\nAttendees will leav
 e with a concrete reference point for sovereign AI in education: what the 
 stack is made of\, what it costs to operate\, which trade-offs cannot be a
 voided\, and where the project is heading.
LOCATION:Academia and EdTech
URL:https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/DU3ULB
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