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Unlocking the Secrets of Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration, Scope & ROI

We would like to invite you to “Why and How to Switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL” webinar. If you’re considering a migration, this is your opportunity to get a strategic roadmap that helps you reduce Oracle costs and unlock the full potential of Postgres. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Presenters:Mostafa Zakaria, Sales Engineer … Read more

The MyData Awards 2024 – 2025 are now open for nominations! 

Nominate any individuals or organisations now at https://go.mydata.org/nominate! Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged.You may make as many nominations as you like. Hello to all members, interested people and the wider MyData community. Following our launch event in June (recording here if you missed it), we are pleased to announce that our brand new award programme … Read more

Meltemi, The first open-source Large Language Model for Greek

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of AI, opening up new opportunities for research and industry applications. However, LLMs demonstrate impressive capabilities only in high-resource languages, in particular in English, while their performance varies substantially across different languages. Especially in the case of low-resourced languages, such as Greek, existing open-source LLMs are underperforming … Read more

Defend FOSS: From innovation to positive change, we need to remind the world what we’re about.

Open Source technology, practices, and thinking have revolutionized how we innovate, collaborate, and do business. The impact goes beyond our daily work and paying our rent. Open source is everywhere; we won! But there’s a downside. We have been so busy with our success that we have forgotten to tell people what makes us and … Read more

14th Call for Proposals for Production Projects for access to national high performance computing system

GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology announces the fourteenth (14th) “Call for Proposals for Production Projects” for access to ARIS national high performance computing system (https://hpc.grnet.gr). In order to allow full and equal access to the ARIS national high performance computing system, GRNET hereby invites scientists and researchers working in Greek educational and/or research … Read more

From Open Software to Open Culture

Opportunities and challenges of open source to support the United Nations mandate Side Event at General Assembly High Level Week to Explore Potential of Open Source Technologies for the United Nations By definition, open source development is collaborative, inclusive and revolutionary—and open software has become ubiquitous. Whenever we are online, we are benefiting from open software. … Read more

Sarantaporo.gr Community Network: Tending to Our Communities’ Needs with Care and Flexibility

At the beginning of May 2020, the Sarantaporo.gr community network team was approached by the Mayor of Elassona, a municipality in the Thessaly region in central Greece. He was asking for help with a very common problem that villages in our municipality face: lack of access to Internet connectivity. “Sykea” or “Sykia” is an isolated … Read more