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Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium

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Re: Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium

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Is this one of the many examples of German government wasting taxpayer's money?

Yes. This is what you get when incompetent officials jump on any offered solution that promises to make their awful track record of "digitalization" projects look better. Of course without listening to actual experts and instead looking for buzzwords.

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Yes. Especially since there is already a government funded app (whose developers also make a much more competent impression) which is scheduled to receive similar functionality as the Luca app with the next update.

And which doesn't have to plan for a business model post-pandemic.

It does not need to. Its open source and funded by the government

Its not run by a private company which only thinks about money.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And which doesn't have to plan for a business model post-pandemic.

It does not need to. Its open source and funded by the government Its not run by a private company which only thinks about money.

That was probably his point already

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This is amazing. There should be hacker clubs in each country double checking all suspicious public procurements.

I'm part of the CCC in Hamburg We will move to stockholm and I'm thinking of creating one :)

Do you know if CCC supports regional chapters?

Re: Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium

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This is amazing. There should be hacker clubs in each country double checking all suspicious public procurements.

I'm part of the CCC in Hamburg We will move to stockholm and I'm thinking of creating one :)

Good luck. In countries like Germany or Norway there is a culture of hacker organisations sustaining themselves financially via their members.

This culture doesn't exist in Sweden, and the spaces and organisations that aren't subsidised by government funds or universities all disappear after a few years.

(Source: Lived in all three countries, was active in such organisations in all three countries)

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I'm part of the CCC in Hamburg We will move to stockholm and I'm thinking of creating one :)

Do you know if CCC supports regional chapters?

Yes, they're called Erfa-Kreise: https://www.ccc.de/en/club/erfas

They're all in German-speaking countries.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm part of the CCC in Hamburg We will move to stockholm and I'm thinking of creating one :)

Do you know if CCC supports regional chapters?

In Germany there are various "local subsidiaries", mainly in or around larger cities. They are also often somewhat tied/connected with local hackerspaces and whatnot.
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