- The contract, procured by public-sector cooperative govdigital eG, covers Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, with other states able to join
- Pricing is structured in five tiers based on active users, ranging from up to 50,000 to more than 500,000. No school authority has to commit to a set volume up front, so each can begin with its current users and grow from there
- The maximum value of the framework agreement is €67.5 million, according to the federal government’s official procurement portal
- The solution is based on IONOS Nextcloud Workspace, combining file storage, document collaboration and communication tools, the companies said
- The platform will run exclusively in German data centres on open-source technology, without non-European dependencies
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Amazing. About a decade late but finally we are moving in Germany
I like that. Especially that it sounds like it’s a reasonably centralized policy.
But only if the sys admin can keep the NextCloud instance from shitting on itself.
Good thing it runs the best programming language ever Rust!
“Sir most is still a legacy hodgepodge of PHP code”
Russian hackers rejoice!
Having Nextcloud does not fulfill the actual needs of a school:
- timetables/class schedules
- provide information about homework
- possibility to inform school that a child is sick
- grades for the kid
- chat platform per class and between kids, teachers and parents
Nextcloud is for filesharing. But filesharing is not a priority need for a school. Yes, you can try to solve this via plugins and stuff. Bit this is just trying to bend something into shape that is not meant for the job.
Better to use a different platform actually tailored to the use case. For example edupage. But edupage has lots to improve (e.g. using in in the browser on mobile is horrible and the UI is very cluttered).
So I don’t see how this actually benefits a school.
There’s Nextcloud Talk, which is like Microslop Teams.
Two of our kids are at schools that use Nextcloud. It doesn’t address all problems, but it solves one big thing: homework. Kids have access to worksheets and handouts, can upload their stuff and have group folders for group work.
The open source platform moodle, which is widely used by schools and unis, seamlessly integrates nextcloud.
Your argument is like saying OneDrive doesn’t fulfill the need of business because it can’t do timesheeting.
Maybe my argument was oversimplifying. What I wanted to say is that Nextcloud alone does not provide a platform to fulfill the needs of a school (Teachers, kids and parents included) but it requires a lot more.
Using Nextcloud as a starting point is imho the wrong approach. Nextcloud should be used as a part of a bigger solution that actually tries to create/provide a solution for schools. Nextcloud should be tightly integrated into that overall solution.
And you are absolutely right: it solves the problem of sharing **homework material **. Bit this is its job: sharing files. Nothing more.
