IONOS has been picked as a contractor, and the service would run inside data centers in Germany.
  • 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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  • sakphul@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    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.