EU: Call for Tender – Economic and social impact of software and software-based services – The European Commission has opened a call for tender on “the economic and social impact of Software and software based Servicesâ€. The submission deadline is 2 February 2009.
The Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue – a forum of US and EU consumer organizations – is organizing the “Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years” conference in Washington, 12-13 January 2009.
Europe, WIPO and USA are all discussing IP policies, TACD now that the new US Administration is about to take place in Washington wants to bring some interested parties at the table.
Both the United States and the European Union are facing demands to modify policies on patents, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property protection, coming from different perspectives. There are high profile right-owner lobbying efforts directed at higher standards and tougher enforcement of intellectual property rights, and growing interest among consumer groups, academics and many innovative businesses to protect the public domain and retain or even expand user rights. There is also much interest in exploring newer approaches to the support of creative and inventive communities, that do not rely on notions of exclusive rights.
With the organisation of this event, the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue calls for two days of discussion on the assessment and on the prospective of the American and European political and policy Agenda on intellectual property practices and policies.
Registration available on TACD’s website (Facebook group also available).
Cloud platforms of the future: Hadoop and Eucalyptus – Dave Rosenberg says that Eucalyptus and Hadoop are two of the most interesting open source software of 2008. Even if David is an advisor to Eucalyptus, cloud computing is gaining traction, but apparently Italian legislators are still paying little attention to this phenomenon.
Open Source Software Workshop OSEHC 2009 – A workshop “Open Source in European Health Care”.
Netherlands Open in Connection Congress – The First Netherlands Open in Connection (NOIV) Congress will take place on 5 March 2009 in the city of Utrecht. The conference aims to inform and advice the Dutch public sector about the possibilities of Open Source software.
OpenExpo 2009 – The sixth edition of Open Expo, the Swiss exhibition and conference for free and open source software.
Roberto,
I`m trying to build a list of different European Open Source related conferences , currently I`m using my Upcoming page
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/38401/
To keep a bit track of what’s gooing on.
What are your main sources ?
greetz
Kris
Hi Kris,
usually I keep myself and my readers updated following OSOR news, plus what I happen to know directly from friends and business contacts.
BE: Open source adoption is often bottom-up, Ph.D study says – Kris Vein, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management Information Systems of the University of Antwerp, says that the adoption of open source frequently seems to be a bottum-up process, but recommendations from IT firms and consultants are also important sources of information. Organisations should not base their open source policies on those of other institutions because each has its own contexts. Open source software selection has still to be taken seriously.
DE: B̦blingen considering migration to Open Source desktop РThe city of B̦blingen will be moving to a desktop based on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, as anticipated during a workshop for Open Source communities, organised by the recently launched European Open Source Software Observatory and Repositor
Qualipso Open World Forum – Yet another QualiPSo Conference will be held at the Open World Forum. What food QualiPSo will cook for their open source thanksgiving?
FOSDEM 2009 – The ninth edition of the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting will take place on the 7-8 February 2009, in Brussels. Differently from QualiPSo FOSDEM has no funds and is organized by volunteers, donations and sponsorships are welcome.
4th International Conference on Geographic Information Systems – The 4th International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will be organized by the Government of Valencia on 3-5 December 2008. The conference aims to demonstrate that the integration of Open Source technologies could offer professional solutions in the fields of GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Why is Novell funding FOSDEM? It’s an ally of Microsoft.
Katowice Municipality: saving public money with OpenOffice.org – The administration of the Polish city of Katowice introduced OpenOffice.org on its desktop computers, replacing proprietary office suites. Read the case study.
FI: Open Source resource centre joins Linux foundation working group – COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions, became an associate partner of Fossbazaar.
Paris Region International Mission Enterprise, the US branch of Paris Region Economic Development Agency, and System@tic are organizing with the support of the French-American Chamber of Commerce an open source conference in San Francisco, on the 8th of December 2008.
In France IT companies, corporations and central and local government administrations have been early adopters, and are willing to share ideas and opportunities with North-American open source vendors.
The event is aimed at providing insights on what comes next:
• large and local government agencies (Finance Dpt., Police, Parliament, Regional and local bodies such as the Paris Region and the city of Paris) have massively deployed their next generation IT infrastructure on free and open source software,
• new markets have emerged for services and have defined new categories such as the SSLL (Societes de Services en Logiciels Libres – Free Software Services Companies) Worldwide, new business models such as SaaS (Software as a Service), Internet-based and Web 2.0 services are enabled first by open source software, as witnessed with the successes of companies such as Google and Salesforce.com.
John Roberts, SugarCRM CEO and open source SaaS hero and brilliant GPLv3 pioneer, will be in the panel of experts.
OMAT conference, a landmark in Italy in electronic document, content and corporate process management will be held in Rome this year, on the 12-13 of November.
On the second day will be held the “Standards and Interoperability“.
For the second time Adobe, Microsoft and members of the OpenOffice.org community will be sitting at the same round table to constructively talk about how to better satisfy users’ needs, bringing some ideas and hopefully future actions.
The conference is a follow up of the previous edition, held just when OpenXML was approved by ISO. I will talk about the importance of being called an open standard, putting it in perspective also with the evolution of standards.
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> The conference is a follow up of the previous
> edition, held just when OpenXML was approved by ISO.
It was shoved down its throat, it was not approved. It was a corrupt affair.
Maybe the OO community could ask Microsoft to list the patent numbers covering the ECMA376 specification? They were never forced to do it during the ISO scandal, so it would be good to have the list.
Roberto Galoppini, and 
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Tenders 1:16 pm on March 17, 2009 Permalink
This is a very interesting Tender – it appears that the European Union is finally beginning ti grasp the vast implications that open computing technology could have on our society.