Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work
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Migration targets, security rules, and management metrics take center stage at this year's event

Report from Open Source Summit Europe 2026: beyond the AI noise, digital sovereignty sessions focused on practical implementation. Highlights include the Linux Foundation keynote on geopolitics and staying open, OpenSSF work on component catalogs for EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance (reporting obligations already in force, main requirements from December 2027), the EU Open Source Observatory’s 2026 report, Japan’s IPA ‘Japan-Type OSS Model’ based on 30,000+ GitHub repositories across seven countries, Dawn Foster’s CHAOSS-based guidance on measuring OSS value, Berlin’s digital sovereignty strategy targeting 70% open source on administrative workstations by 2032, and SUSE’s overview of the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SOV-1 to SOV-8 objectives, SEAL-0 to SEAL-4 levels) with a ten-minute online self-assessment. Author’s conclusion: plans, targets and measurements are signs that organizations are treating open source as infrastructure rather than an experiment. https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/16/open-source-sovereignty-gets-down-to-the-boring-business-of-making-it-work/5303206