I'm super happy to launch a new European Digital Sovereignty Meetup in Munich

You can find us in mastodon:
@DigitalSovereigntyMunich

and at Meetup.com (I want to find a replacement, but for now, this is where people find meetups)
https://www.meetup.com/european-digital-sovereignity-munich/

The current org team is:
@lehtimaeki
@brupp
@eenriquelopez

We're currently working ot setup the first meetup.

If you are interested in helping, ping one of us!

Potential host locations very welcome!

#DigitalSovereignty

I think it makes sense to let US companies know why we're not considered their offers when approached by their sales people.
I hope more people there will start to understand that their government actions have real consequences for the whole country, whether you voters for them or not.

@EugeneMcParland

This does undermine their message somewhat..

Over the last year I have stopped approximately 1070€ of annual subscription costs to US products in our family.

In our company, we're in process of stopping somewhere between 20k€ to 25k€ annuals subscription fees to US products.

I know I'm not the only one, and our company isn't alone doing these changes.

We have a lot of people in Europe. If we all shift a portion of our reccurring monthly costs to European products, it will make a huge difference.

My dad, almost 80, replaced Windows on his laptop with Linux. Without asking me anything. He’s never touched Linux before. Everything else than BT works, apparently.

Times are changing.