I was part of a EU commission project once to define a metadata standard for sharing of cultural assets. It consisted of developers and managers for many different companies that were active in the cultural sector.
The end result was an abomination, in which every company fought to have a little bit of their tech included in the final specification.
I can't imagine Gaia-X being any different. To be honest, most members are probably in it for the same reason we were - free money.
Direct democracy with prediction markets would solve this because an idiot who votes for a project that fails would lose voting power, minimizing the issue.
Yes and no. While it doesn't change anything if you're on AWS/Azure/GCP and other providers, this basically sink funds from institutions to private companies who have no interest in actually delivering a working cloud provider.
There are existing providers in Europe who have small clouds with less services and integrations, and sometimes not the same performance or reliability as well (such as Scaleway, OVH, Hetzner, ...) who could use those funds to improve their offering and provide a realistic alternative to foreign cloud providers.
This does not prevent companies from building sovereign cloud, but it cuts public funding where it's the most needed.
There is IPCEI CIS which aims at actually helping building a cloud provider rather than standards but I don't know much about it.
Well the problem is that policy makers and large industrial companies HAVE heard of it, and think it is "what is happening in Europe". And they should stop thinking that, hence this article.
Interesting. So it seems that Gaia-X is a process that defines how to talk about discussing things that could be done without defining what those things could actually be or do. It is a meta-meta level. Hmmm... Let's discuss how to discuss things...
The end result was an abomination, in which every company fought to have a little bit of their tech included in the final specification.
I can't imagine Gaia-X being any different. To be honest, most members are probably in it for the same reason we were - free money.