Greetings from Brussels! 👋

At NGI Forum 2025 #OWSome things are happening. Today's morning sessions are fully devoted to topics surrounding #OpenWebSearch and #DigitalWebSovereignty in Europe.

Check out the full agenda: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

Thank you @EC_NGI for the opportunity to further disseminate our huge vision to an audience of innovators, decision makers and potential partners from across Europe. 🙌

Passau with a view!
Our team had an #OWSome time at the Faculty of Computer Science & Mathematics at Universität Passau.

Last week the entire project team came together over a 3 day period to discuss important next steps re the final project phase, incl:

📌Public access to the #OWI
📌New prospects in the #OpenSearchInitiative
📌Additions to our #EventsCalendar

TY to project leader @grani for hosting us, & for making us hike up ≈ 200 stairs to a fancy restaurant. We work hard for the🍯

@djoerd starting the WOWS workshop.
He's #OWSome!

🚀 The Midterm Consortium Meeting kicked off today!

Over a course of 3 days the ows.eu team is assembled at @Radboud_uni to finetune the roadmap for the second half of the project timeline. The agenda is packed with technical, legal, ethical, + economical questions to tackle. But there's also time to chat + socialize. A perfect opportunity to show off the #OWSome new shirts that were presented today :wink:

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity #EUproject
@EC_NGI @cern
@DLR @unileipzig @osf

We just finished an #OWSome hackathon at the TU Dresden to prepare the Workshop on Open Web Search #WOWS at #ECIR2024 in Glasgow. In the last week, we brainstormed, implemented, and evaluated a diverse set of retrieval components. This was so much fun! https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024

@maik_froebe My laptop is now #OWSome too!

Here are some #OWSome impressions from the Open Web Search kicker tournament in Ostrava. We had a very nice location at IT4I! Really cool that we found the kicker table on the second day of the workshop :) #ossym23 #ows #FreeWebSearch

On my way home from a productive #OWS.EU project meeting, unfortunately a little early.

Our team is just #OWSome!!

And:

Ode to the taxi driver who drove back to the airport, ten minutes after dropping me off at the terminal, to return my phone that I left at the back seat of the car.

Another ode to the LOT ladies who meanwhile were helping me trying to call the taxi company with only the trip receipt as means to get in touch with the company.

A little traveller's angel guarded me today!