With a tour around our new building and an afternoon full of insights into open source, Ancud IT has openend  has opened its new head office. As "House of Open Source" it aims to unite open source solutions and services under one roof. Dedicating the building to open source, Ancud IT also wants to underline the growing importance of Nuremberg as open source city.

Our new head office is located in the old "Glockenhof", an old Patrician building from the 18th century. The owner, the von Grundherr family, has now carefully renovated their ancestral home preserving the ancient walls and traditional details like the roof construction. The building now offers generous and light flooded space for employees and ideas.

For the opening ceremony, we went for hard facts instead of solemn speeches: Our open soruce partners presented chances and different aspects of enterprise open source. Thomas Lederer (Alfresco), Karsten Königstein (Intalio), Claude Beullens (Jaspersoft), Martin Lange (Talend) and Olaf Laber (Ingres) gave us a comprehensive view on how open source can change the business. Michael Nordschild (Nürnberger Initiative für Kommunikationswirtschaft) and Frank Tyroff (Department of Economic Affairs, City of Nuremberg) linked the open source community to the needs of SME business in Nuremberg. Afterwards there was great food, nice talks, and interesting people to mingle with.

Some impressions of the event:

Our guests...

...managing director Konstantin Böhm...

...and the culinary climax of the event.