DAWO, from member portal to Linux workplace
Member portal, workspace and development
- Client
DAWO
- Sector
Government
- Result
Linux workplace in a pilot at a municipality
About the project
What needed to happen
Almost every government laptop runs software the government itself has little influence over. Which updates arrive, what the licences cost and where data ends up: the supplier decides. DAWO shows it can be done differently, with an open source workplace for government laptops.
- A government workplace must demonstrably meet the BIO and the NCSC guidance.
- Hundreds of laptops must stay identical, without manual work per device.
- Staff must be able to reach their existing virtual desktops.
What we did
We help build the Linux workplace and are steward of Sextant, the management platform around it. We also built the member portal for DAWO and set up the workspace. Read more about the workplace in DAWO: a Linux workplace for government.
- The whole configuration lives as code in git. Every version is fixed and can be rebuilt.
- A generic base for every organisation, with a thin layer on top for what belongs to one municipality.
- Hardening is on by default, with disk encryption, a firewall and logging.
- New laptops are installed over the network, without a USB stick per device.
- Sextant shows what every laptop really runs, and updates go out in rings.
Result
- Verifiable: code, configuration and management are open to inspect
- No lock-in: open source and open standards
- Own control over the workplace and its updates
- Workplace in a pilot at a municipality
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