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Get involved

SOVCAP is an open initiative. Everything below is open to people who want to follow the work or contribute.

Stay informed

Announcement list — low traffic, only announcements. Anyone can subscribe, only moderators post. Subscribe to the list

Matrix space — several rooms for day-to-day exchange. If you do not use Matrix regularly, e-mail notifications about new posts work as well. Join #sovcap.org:academiccloud.de

Contact

Write to the initiative at contact.sovcap.org@listserv.dfn.de. The address reaches the whole organising team.

Working together

  • Tools will be linked here

Workshop

The initiative meets once a year. The programme of the first workshop is on the Workshop 2026 page.

  • Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) — open-source standard and reference implementation for federated cloud and container infrastructure. The clouds in this initiative are meant to be SCS-compliant.
  • GovStack — reusable building blocks for digital government services, an initiative of the ITU, GIZ, Estonia and DIAL.
  • International Telecommunication Union (ITU) — the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies.
  • Kube3 — inter-university cooperation on a shared, Kubernetes-based project cloud for teaching and research.
  • ZKI e. V. — the association of the IT centres of German universities and research institutions.