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caubin | 3 months ago

Hei hei,

I'm working for the XWiki and CryptPad projects, which are integrated in openDesk. Here are a couple links / infos that can be interesting to understand the context of openDesk.

The openDesk project comes initially from an initiative of the Ministry of Interior of Germany in 2021, to build the alternative to Office 365. The project was progressively transferred in 2025 to a state-owned organization, the ZenDis (https://zendis.de), which oversees the global development of openDesk.

The source code is mainly available on https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk, where you will find mirrors of every project which is bundled into openDesk (Nextcloud, Collabora, Element, Univention, XWiki, Jitsi, OpenXchange, CryptPad, OpenProject, …)

There was also a couple public presentations about openDesk at FOSDEM during the past years :

* In 2024 : https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3...

* In 2025 : https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5...

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evanjrowley|3 months ago

I appreciate your comment. I'm thrilled to learn that CryptPad is part of the openDesk solution.

>CryptPad was selected to join the German "Sovereign Workplace" project, now called openDesk.

https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/01/28/CryptPad-Funding-Status...

Many more details in this blog post from XWiki: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/XWiki-CryptPad-knowledge-managemen...

hda111|3 months ago

CryptPad isn’t used for word processing or table calculations in openDesk. It’s super confusing how the tools were put together.

fxtentacle|3 months ago

I find it fascinating to see how much power Germany's "digital sovereignty" initiative has gained. In the beginning, it looked like yet another government thingy that nobody will use. But by now, they must be well above 100k government employees using it daily.

Also, in case you missed that: StackIt is the AWS / G Cloud competitor by LIDL: https://www.stackit.de/en/ It's the basebone for their app strategy with 100 mio+ client installs and about 500k employees.

jacquesm|3 months ago

Every time this happens Microsoft either threatens to move out or promises to move in with a chunk of their operation. Blackmailing with jobs has been very effective for them.