Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel has been elected as chair of the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) in the British Computer Society (BCS) on October 21, 2021.

Digital sovereignty is a fundamental issue for the GWDG and its customers. We therefore endeavor to support alternatives to commercial solutions in order to avoid vendor lock-in. Open-source solutions are a cornerstone in this strategy. The GWDG offers many open source products as services for its users and is committed to the further development of these products in order to continuously improve the user experience.

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Message-Id: 202110271412 Time: Oct 31st Affected: GWDG customers Impact: Data centre closed and service hotline not available by phone

The GWDG data centre of the GWDG will be closed and service hotline not available by phone on Oct 31st, the Reformation Day. We kindly ask all users to take this into account.

The GWDG is looking for a Data Center Engineer (m/f/d) for High-Performance Computing to join the the working group “IT Infrastructure” (AG I).

The job vancany …

On October 26, 2021, the lecture series “Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Society” of the winter semester 2021/2022 will start. Within the lecture program, the different aspects of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science will be presented and discussed. The lectures will each start at 6:15 pm and will be held in a hybrid format.

The August/September issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Microsoft 365 with Office for the University of Göttingen
• Kubernetes with Rancher at the GWDG – Part 3: Deploy a Workload
• Mapping of SKOS Vocabularies with Cocoda on the Example of Education Metadata

>> Click here for the GWDG News 8-9/2021