EU-funded Open Source Initiatives: NESSI’s Missing Deliverables
NESSI, is the “European Technology Platforms” – i.e. industry-led consortia considered by the EU relevant discussion partners to discuss how to achieve Europe’s future growth, competitiveness and sustainability objectives – and its declared strategic objective was to support the evolution from software to services. Not suprisingly open source was supposed to play a major role, but things went differently.
Despite the EU backed NESSI with  about 1 million euros, the Open Source Working Group did very little. As I noticed before NESSI WP description mentions deliverables that never got delivered.
Update: I have been asked from one of the contacts I mentioned to remove all companies’ and organizations’ names. You can find the list in the NESSI Open Source Working Group Manifesto mentioned above.
Until now no news about those deliverables, though.
Roberto Galoppini, 
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Andrea 5:53 pm on December 15, 2010 Permalink
I think that there should be an effort to build a common open repository of all the documents, software and any other output of EU funded projects. This will ensure transparency and long term access to EU research results.
Stefane Fermigier 6:36 pm on December 15, 2010 Permalink
They should also be made accountable for their lack of taste in web design 😉
Cheers,
S.
Antonio 9:18 am on December 16, 2010 Permalink
Well,
the first step is always to set up a forgery where to commit open source software sources. This will give immediatly the status of art.
It seems to me that open source is just a word in EU concepts.
Roberto Galoppini 1:36 pm on December 16, 2010 Permalink
@Andrea Great idea! It happens to look for some EU-funded research findings and not finding them.
@Stefane you’re probably right, but in this case I’m more concerned about missing contents, though. Especially considering how researchers and the Commission look at NESSI.
@Antonio I’m not sure you need to run a private forgery, it is a waste of public money, especially now that the European OSOR is up and running.