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Workshop on Free and Open Source Software and International Cooperation
Brussels, 21 April 2005
This workshop was dedicated to open source software and international cooperation. The workshop had been jointly organized by the DG INFSO's units dealing with "Software Technologies" and "International Relations".
The rationale for the workshop is that the phenomenon of open source software has received worldwide attention. Due to this global interest and the pervasiveness of software, OSS offers opportunities for global partnerships under the umbrella of joint research efforts.
The workshop had speakers from Japan, Korea and China (participation from other parts of the world had been planned, but was not possible due to the unavailability of relevant speakers). Also main European activities in the domain of OSS and international cooperation were presented. This was followed by a round table discussion with participants from European industry.
The workshop offered a unique mix of information from Asian and European activities, and provided illuminating views from industry. For further information, see the presentation material.
Agenda
Chaired by Prof. Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Welcome and introduction Simon Bensasson - Head of Unit, INFSO A4 "International Relations" Dirk van Rooy - INFSO D3 "Software technologies" |
| 14:10 - 14:40 | A Japanese perspective on open source software promotion in Asia Takashi Kume, Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | An open source perspective from China Zhao Chen - Chief Engineer, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | An open source perspective from Korea Sungha Yang - Vice-president of KIPA, Korean Open Source Promotion Centre, Korea |
| 15:40 -16:00 | break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | European research in open source and international collaboration CALIBRE - Co-ordination Action for Libre Software Engineering for Open Development Platforms for Software and Services Pär Agerfalk - University of Limerick FLOSSWorld - Free/Libre and FLOSS: Worldwide Impact Study Ruediger Glott - MERIT, University of Maastricht |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Round table discussion: "Needs and opportunities to develop a common software platform based on the open source software" with industry participation and the session speakers José María Cavanillas - Atos Origin, Spain Heikki Saikkonen - Nokia, Finland Arnoud Engelfriet - Philips, The Netherlands |
| 17:30 - 17:40 | Wrap-up and next steps Jesús Villasante - Head of Unit, INFSO D3 "Software technologies" |
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