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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by hans1729 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:42AM (#27906950)
For what its worth, open source is en vogue in german government IT at the moment. "Dataport", a government-owned IT-company, has an open-source based project "Phoenix", as a first step in this shift of paradigm. This is interesting because Dataport used to be pretty much a windows-shop; despite old and established hierarchies and its special place in the public domain, change is happening.

(Source: I'm working in that project as a consultant)

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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by meibo on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:11AM (#27907376)
Please keep it that way! We need open source in government - it's the only way to hold people accountable and make sure that citizens aren't being shafted :)

Thanks for your work!

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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by Arathorn on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:49AM (#27907046)
Independently of gematik's work, Phoenix also uses Matrix as its communication backplane (source: the Matrix team is also consulting on it :)
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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by hans1729 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:51AM (#27907078)
I've had the pleasure of working with Ben for a while, cheers from team mav! Wearing my matrix hoodie writing this :)
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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:33PM (#27908433)
Can you get a Matrix hoodie without working on Matrix? :D
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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by Arathorn on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:57PM (#27909687)
https://shop.matrix.org :D

(and yay for Ben - he gets everywhere!)

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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:16PM (#27909941)
Thank you so much!
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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by ltultraweight on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:01AM (#27907234)
Isn't Phoenix merely rebranding already existing projects like Jitsi Meet and matrix.org?

If not, where can this project be publicly inspected?

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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by hans1729 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:17AM (#27907456)
This is why I made the distinction "open-source based". The project isn't simply rebranding though, it builds solutions for customers based on open source components (which is a step in the correct direction). I would like all the repositories to be public, too, but we're not there yet.
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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by ltultraweight on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:19AM (#27907477)
I saw on phoenix-werkstatt.de that there are actual contributions back upstream. Even if it appears to not be a Dataport employee, at least some of the funds of the government are going towards improving the projects for everyone. Good stuff.
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Re:Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for co... by germanier on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:22AM (#27907523)
Unfortunately, at the moment even code access for other public institutions is buried behind many layers of bureaucracy but I have been promised they will start to open up soon enough.
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