{"id":15088,"date":"2022-04-27T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T06:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bluemind.net\/?p=10163"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:10:43","slug":"bluemind-joins-the-osb-alliance-germanys-federal-non-profit-organisation-for-open-source-and-digital-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"ressource","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemind.net\/en\/ressource\/bluemind-joins-the-osb-alliance-germanys-federal-non-profit-organisation-for-open-source-and-digital-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"BlueMind joins the OSB Alliance, Germany\u2019s Federal Non-Profit Organisation for Open Source and Digital Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BlueMind, publisher of the first European open-source collaborative mail solution, continues to grow in Germany as it joins the Open Source Business Alliance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French software publisher BlueMind, whose collaborative mail solution has already won over 500 clients from SMEs to government ministries, is pressing on with its mission for European technological independence by joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/osb-alliance.de\/\">Open Source Business Alliance (OSB Alliance)<\/a>. This <strong>federal organisation for digital sovereignty<\/strong> represents about 170 member companies from the open-source economy in Germany. The OSB Alliance aims to reinforce the industry\u2019s and the administration\u2019s trust in open-source software by working on interoperability and standards, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe OSB Alliance is the German counterpart to France\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cnll.fr\/\">CNLL<\/a>, the National Free Software Council, which I co-chair,\u201d explains Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind. \u201cWe advocate the same values, we fight the same fights. This is why it made sense for BlueMind to join the OSB Alliance and work on common projects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incidentally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnll.fr\/\">CNLL<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/osb-alliance.de\/\">OSB A<\/a>lliance are co-founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apell.info\/\">APELL<\/a>, the European Open Source Software Business Association (along with <a href=\"https:\/\/coss.fi\/\">CossFi<\/a>, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software, and <a href=\"https:\/\/openforumeurope.org\/\">OpenForum Europe<\/a>). The APELL acts as an intermediary between national open-source organisations and EU institutions. It aims to get the voices of businesses heard, in particular in the development of European directives or public policies that have an impact on free software companies and their competitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Germany, a key market in Europe<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Europe \u2013 including the Franco-German couple \u2013 is being confronted with an unprecedented wake-up call on the importance of its sovereignty, and digital sovereignty in particular. In a conflictive geopolitical context with cyber-attacks and technological supply risks at their highest, technological independence is finally recognised as a strategic issue, as the tech community has been professing all along. And the most-exposed, most critical tool we use every day that all our important documents go through &#8212; enterprise mail \u2013 is left in the hands of US solutions: Microsoft365, Exchange, Google\u2026 Why? Because when it comes to email, user habits and organisational conformism trump all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BlueMind\u2019s goal is to bring sovereignty and user satisfaction together by facilitating all types of accesses and uses. This has been achieved by being the only natively Outlook-compatible solution and offering the best support for Thunderbird, browser-based use and mobile access. BlueMind respects user habits while providing a wide range of features (calendars, tasks, enterprise signatures, linked attachments, videoconferencing, extensive collaborative functionalities, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>BlueMind is already present in Germany<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BlueMind, as always focused on its core business as software publisher, is expanding in Germany through a network of integrator partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since it announced its deployment in Germany in 2021, BlueMind relies on two local strategic partners who have already rolled out its solution for several clients: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centaur.de\/\">Centaur GmbH<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meier-pc.de\/\">Meier Computersysteme GmbH.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>About BlueMind<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>BlueMind is a complete enterprise email and unified communications solution. As the first European open-source software publisher, BlueMind brings organisations of all shapes and sizes the choice of a sovereign mail solution that reconciles with user habits.<br>Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind, has served several times as Chairman of the Paris Open Source Summit. He has been co-Chairman of the CNLL (French National Free Software Council) since 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>About the OSB Alliance<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The OSB Alliance is a German non-profit organisation made up of public administration institutions, small and medium sized enterprises and leading open-source IT companies as well as proprietary applications and users.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A key objective of the OSB Alliance is to continuously strengthen the trust of the industry and government administrations in open-source software. To that end, it uses a wide range of instruments such as cooperation projects, networking, marketing and public relations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14521,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15088","ressource","type-ressource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BlueMind rejoint l&#039;Open Source Business Alliance en Allemagne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BlueMind continues to grow in Germany as it joins the Open Source Business Alliance, the German Association for Open Source and digital sovereignty.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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