Glad to finally get to participate in the EU Open Source Policy Summit '25 in #Brussels. I was able to watch the morning presentation thanks to Fred Dixon's @bigbluebutton
We will have to meet again in #Ottawa. Great start to the #EuropeOpenSouceWeek & #FOSDEM.
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🛫 @NGICommons is travelling to...Brussels 🇧🇪
Meet our #partners and talk to them about what you think #opensource can do for #europe.
For more information, please check our website:
https://commons.ngi.eu/event/eu-open-source-policy-summit-2025/
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EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024 Panel: The Case for a Big EU OSS Fund by @OpenForumEurope
@francescabria: "Change the narrative, be strategic, connect the initiatives that work, put forward a plan, and turn Next Generation Internet (@[email protected]) into a 10-billion European Sovereign Tech Fund!" #VerySimple 💯
📺 We have published the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024 videos. The Summit panels, speeches and presentations, delivered by global policy experts, EU and national level policy-makers, high-level officials, and technology thought leaders will prepare you for the upcoming digital policy developments of 2024 and beyond.
Replay Summit 2024 here ↘ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSRZrrm1DwxBXS4rWO6030AFmhOmUFMI
Lessons and common misconceptions: “Don't look at the end product first without thinking about the underlying work that needs to happen. Take into account the chain of software components and communities involved. Have a holistic approach of all the steps.
— There is no glory in prevention.
— Funds are limited, using taxpayer money
— Public procurement laws make it hard
— Look where you can have a leverage effect “ 3/3 #EUOpenSource
“The blueprint STF provides is how we learned to scale things up quickly. It’s good to start with a laser focus on very specific tasks and then scale up, instead of starting with a top-down approach and then learning on the way that it doesn’t work.
The learnings on the national level do apply. We don’t have a narrow focus on location, we look internationally for projects, and the programs we design need to take into account how the communities work.” 2/3 #EUOpenSource
On the #EUOpenSource panel on EU OSS fund, Adriana Groh shares learnings from STF:
On how an EU fund might interact with national actors: “We need more actors in this field, not fewer, especially actors with public money for the public interest. More actors creates desired resilience and redundancy, which is a good thing. With just 1 or 2 actors providing support, it’s dangerous for communities…”
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Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM
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