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Thank you very much.

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Thank you for attending the call and for the invitation.

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It's good, Garloff.

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We're presenting as 7N and also several CloudStake here.

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And my name is Nicoluk.

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I'm representing Gafstake in the initiative.

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And first, we will quickly present what is Gafstake,

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and what is the sort of CloudStake.

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And then we will speak a little bit on how we collaborate,

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mainly a broad of Europe and North America,

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but in other countries.

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And what is Gafstake?

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Well, this is a picture from Mexico,

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but maybe you are familiar with the situation of being in public

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and administration.

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You want something from your government.

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You want a birth certificate.

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You want to get a social benefit.

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You want to get your text done.

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And either you do an analogue way or more more countries.

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Digitalize their services.

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But when digitalizing, that's usually a huge challenge for governments.

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Because you don't want to, for all the applications,

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for all the services you have in all the sectors,

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like from social sector to health sector and so on,

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to create an own software for each and every service you have.

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So the idea of Gafstake is, that's why it's called stack.

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So a soft plastic where you have on top,

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the visual services are citizen sees.

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From the different sectors,

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government supplies you or a business services with.

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But below, you have certain software components,

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because then building blocks which serve generic functionalities

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to these top services.

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So that means one is in blue here, in mediation middleware,

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in green, certain we call them feature building blocks.

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If you need a payment functionality,

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if you need geo informational,

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if you need e-signature.

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So and all these blocks are addressed by an API.

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So everything on top is basically a unified UX.

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But below, you reuse certain building blocks in the APIs.

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And foundational blocks are registry,

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ID and authentication, for example, issues certain block flows and so.

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And the, once on below is the cloud infrastructure,

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which we will talk about in a second.

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So the idea is, do not build monolithic systems,

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build modular decentralized architectures for all the services within

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the government.

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And Gafstake was founded by the German government,

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the Estonian government, the International Telecommunication Union,

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and a digital impact alliance.

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And we are kind of an open source project,

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an open source community.

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And we are not developing the software,

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but we are writing requirements specifications.

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So not software, but specifications.

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And why that?

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Because for governments,

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it's even better you could know the market,

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you could know all the solutions,

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but what is actually better,

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because they have to go into procurement,

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it's to know what they want.

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And in order to know what you want to do the requirement engineering and so on,

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it's good if you start with a blueprint,

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if you start somewhere.

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So what we did in this community in this working groups,

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we brought together experts from different fields

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and special road requirements specifications for these different blocks,

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where we expect that software, open source,

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or proprietary software, is already on the market

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and can be chosen by a government through procurement and so on.

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So one block here has multiple software solutions

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on the market which fits fit.

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We treated like a standard,

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but we called it usually a blueprint

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because it can be adapted by governments.

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They should be owned to decide

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what they use, how do they standardize internally,

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what they're procurement.

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So we are basically a neutral broker

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between the demand side, governments,

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and the software providers, the supply side,

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in a market which is very restrictive.

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So both sides contribute,

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and both sides have a value in these specifications

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in this requirement specification and procurement

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in developing products for this market.

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And coming to cloud, in this group we specified the virtualization,

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the container layers, and this is really all text

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like requirements specifications documents

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in order to find the right solution for you.

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And one of these solutions which we cooperate

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is a certain cloud stack,

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and with that I'll hand over to you.

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Thanks Nico.

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So it was a really blessed collaboration for us

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because the first thing we found out

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really online, we have the same goals.

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In our title, we have sovereign cloud stack,

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sovereignty is one of our main goals.

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So one of the things we did early in our project,

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we had to kind of diffuse some of the confusion

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that was around digital sovereignty.

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And maybe you've seen this becoming one of those marketing terms,

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unfortunately, so we talked about sovereign washing now.

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People talking about sovereign clouds,

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and then if you look at what they aspire to achieve,

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the only thing they try to achieve is having data sovereignty.

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Well, I'm not even sure they do that, they succeed in that,

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but that's the only goal they have.

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And if you've seen this slide from a send this before,

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when they talked about digital sovereignty,

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it's a much broader concept.

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You've seen choice, technological sovereignty,

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and open operations or the spills you need in order

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to run and operate those systems on them.

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Those are the same things we have in our own definition

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of digital sovereignty,

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and that's actually now a scientific publication

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we've written on that in order to kind of try to have defined terms

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and have the same things we talk about.

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So we have those four directions,

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and it's important that when we talk about digital sovereignty,

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we always look at those four different angles.

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If I look at our project,

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the way we are addressing this,

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the sovereignty is a given or something you can actually get

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by having the providers that are local,

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that you trust, that work within your environment,

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and they are able to deliver in a secure way.

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And then on top of that, what we do in our project,

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we add the choice aspect by having really strong technical,

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certifiable standards, so customers,

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users can easily switch between clouds,

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or use several clouds together in a federated way.

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We talk about technical sovereignty.

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This is, of course, where we do need

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fully openly developed open source stack,

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that's where reference implementation comes into play,

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and then the knowledge building,

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having the information, the skills available,

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with the open operations, and the open knowledge initiative.

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Hending back to you.

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Yeah, quick note on that.

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So there is one part which I just described,

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which is the global standardization,

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but also German government Estonia,

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and you are also working with countries together

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to implement these architectures,

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or to basically do trainings

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on the different aspects of gasstack.

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And I think I leave it with that.

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So these are a few countries we work with,

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but I think it's quite interesting to see

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how sovereign cloud is working now,

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with a couple of these countries together and with us.

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And just to maybe share some of the things

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that are currently happening.

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And you've seen on the last slide,

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I mean, we've had a number of African countries being interested,

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which is really great,

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because I see Africa really catching up with open source

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and with digital visualization.

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So there's some picture from a training

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that happened just, I think,

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was actually this week.

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Where a custom was talking about cloud

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and how you use clouds,

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and how we can help these countries

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to be successful, having their own control,

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having their own digital infrastructure.

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And just maybe as a closing remark,

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and I actually decided against

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inserting very, very depressing pictures here,

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but they are linked from the PDF slides

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if you really want to look at them again.

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I mean, one of the things that's really inspiring me

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here being at Boston seeing lots of people working

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for our digital freedom,

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maybe the fight we are having here is no longer

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just about digital freedom.

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I mean, we see those big tech companies,

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unfortunately, not just working in strange ways

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with newly elected people,

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but we also see them actively supporting regimes

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and parties in Europe that are fighting

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against the fascism that we hope to overcome there.

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And I mean, let's do our piece,

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make sure we have the digital freedom,

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and hope that helps the world to not go that wrong direction.

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Thank you.

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Well, I just wanted to, one last remark is that

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I think it's worth to look beyond North America

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and the EU.

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We were working with so many governments

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which all have open source communities.

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So there are a lot of users.

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There might be not so visible,

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but actually the community spreads wide

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and I think it's worth to look globally

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and not only very EU-centric.

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Thanks.

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Thank you.