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2024 OFA Symposium Programme is now published! OpenForum Europe 2024 OFA Symposium will feature exceptional content and deep insights from international academics and experts. Our multidisciplinary agenda covers critical topics, including the economics of open source innovation, open source funding, dynamics of open source ecosystems, global AI governance, and public sector participation in open source. Jara Pascual will feature this event with a talk on: Economic and political impacts through adoption of open innovation ecosystem frameworks Open source software and digital tools are a collaborative and altruistic effort by a motivated community with an impact driven mindset. However, the economic and political impact is difficult to reach from informal community structures where there is minimal governance structure designed for those types of impacts. This paper presents new findings on these dynamics, using data collected from the European Parliament and European Commission, and other countries such Malaysia, Lithuania, and Nigeria. For more information or to ask any questions you might have, please reach out to events@openforumeurope.org https://lnkd.in/eBQd7TwX #OpenSource #DigitalEconomy #AcademicResearch

2024 OFA Symposium Programme is now published! OpenForum Europe 2024 OFA Symposium will feature exceptional content and deep insights from international academics and experts. Our multidisciplinary agenda covers critical topics, including the economics of open source innovation, open source funding, dynamics of open source ecosystems, global AI governance, and public sector participation in open source. Jara Pascual will feature this event with a talk on: Economic and political impacts through adoption of open innovation ecosystem frameworks Open source software and digital tools are a collaborative and altruistic effort by a motivated community with an impact driven mindset. However, the economic and political impact is difficult to reach from informal community structures where there is minimal governance structure designed for those types of impacts. This paper presents new findings on these dynamics, using data collected from the European Parliament and European Commission, and other countries such Malaysia, Lithuania, and Nigeria. For more information or to ask any questions you might have, please reach out to events@openforumeurope.org https://lnkd.in/eBQd7TwX #OpenSource #DigitalEconomy #AcademicResearch

What’s the Impact of Funding Open Source? 🛣️ As open source software is increasingly recognised as critical digital infrastructure, it’s crucial to understand how funding models impact its development, security, and sustainability—and ensure they lead to long-term positive outcomes. 🛠️ Together with Cailean Osborne (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Dawn Foster (CHAOSS) and Mirko Boehm (Linux Foundation Europe), I'm excited to share our new Toolkit for Measuring Public Funding Impacts on OSS Development. 🧠 Drawing from our collective experience with initiatives like NGI - The Next Generation Internet, CHAOSS and the Sovereign Tech Agency, this toolkit offers funders, policymakers, and OSS communities practical methods and guidance to assess the social, economic, and technological impacts of OSS funding. 🗣️ We’re excited to present this work at the OpenForum Europe Symposium at Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard tomorrow, and look forward to discussing it with fellow researchers and practitioners. It’s a great opportunity to explore how funding is shaping the future of open source and its sustainability 🔗 Check out the preprint in the comments. #OpenSource #FundingImpact #OFA #NGI #SovereignTech #CHAOSS #PublicFunding #TechPolicy #OpenSourceSustainability

“You would be hard-pressed to find any piece of scientific literature published today that has not been supported in some way by at least a dozen if not more, open source software projects.”

Open Source Science Initiative (OSSci) is organizing a special meetup for those involved in open-source scientific software in Seattle. If you're in the area, check out and secure your spot here: https://lnkd.in/gRZFDbK2 Many thanks to Tim Bonnemann for sharing about this event! #OpenSource #OSSci #OpenSourceSummit

The bit below may be a bit controversial, but I believe that it is a discussion we should start having. Your thoughts, open or in a DM, are more than appreciated since I believe that the situation may be different from field to field. I have seen countless articles over the last few years criticising how the #EU is starting to lag behind when it comes to #research and #innovation compared to the rest of the world. Addressing the part of that which may be related to the academic R&I and its connection to the private and security sectors, I would like to ask; how are we supposed to keep the research and innovation edge in the EU, when most of the #intellectual #property that we produce under EU funding has to be put up there #publicly, with full #opencode, #opendata and all the #documentation, for everyone else to take? And how should we try to persuade the #private and #security #stakeholders to work with us, when it is required that we publish all their data openly under EU funding? I will be the first to march for #OpenScience principles, but I would also be the first to admit that it might not always work for all R&I fields, especially in some of the applied ones and if the rest of the world is not joining in. EU researchers have to often spend countless hours and even financial resources to adhere to these principles; and in effect, to bring everybody else up to their level, without requiring that the other parties outside the EU do the same. I am not saying that this philosophy is good or bad; and its potential benefits absolutely depend on the specific R&I field. I also know that following Open Science principles may often improve #research #quality and #impact. I am, however, also saying that if you impose such rules on your researchers, you have to understand that it will have effects and that you should partly manage your expectations. Something about having a cake and eating it too. All of this is not even counting with the fact that more and more groups all across the EU are being slowly dominated by foreign PhD students on foreign governmental grants with the condition that they have to return to their home country after the completion of their studies - because they are cheap or completely free for the PIs to have - making not only the export of the open IP much faster, but also resulting in the fact that the PIs spend much less time training the future researchers that will actually stay in the EU and further advance its R&I.

When we started out in 2013, there was a belief in the #engineering #industry that #opensource was, at best, a bootstrapping tool for scientific & engineering problems, and at worst, an academic novelty compromising "real software" sales. 💸 This allowed a huge amount of overpriced 💰 proprietary #technicaldebt to go unchallenged - our bet was that, as time went on, large #engineering industry players would see the data and IT industry wins and realise this. That *has* been the case, and Flax & Teal Limited Engineering's work has been driven by that realisation. Now, we work with #automotive 🚘 , #semiconductor 🎇 , #medtech 💊 , #bigfour 👔 and #advancedengineering 🦾 clients, who decided that open source scientific software was "real software", removing the encumbrances that held them back. But... 🎉 The article below *absolutely* hits the nail on the head - that #opensourceisnotfree, and that its benefits mean paying real people somewhere in the value chain. It involves different challenges around #resilience, #training, #maintenance and #accountability, that are liabilities if open source is treated as a free lunch. Well done Dario Taraborelli and Kate Hertweck! 👏 🧩 While we love funder-supported models, they only work alongside sustainable pillars - such as (competitively-priced) commercial billing for services and open products, to mitigate those risks for large engineering players, with every contract enabling #upstreaming (where relevant and non-sensitive) to benefit the original project. In return, we provide expertise spanning three continents 🌍 , with PhD/postdoc level experience in #physics, #mathematics and #engineering science and infrastructure team members with up to 25y background in #oilgas 🛢️ and #energy ⚡ , to help modernize and streamline your engineering computation. When we talk to #engineers and #scientists, their biggest challenge is often soaking up the technical demands of building on #opensource - no guaranteed support, slow bugfixes, project shifts, docs, security patches - while management demands #opensource be "free-of-cost". If you are a #CTO promoting that, it's hugely #stress-creating, and an unrealistic expectation for your team. Instead, address those painpoints by taking an #opensource "Missing SLA" - we supply these, as do others. If you are a #scientist, #engineer or #techlead, we can help frame that business case with you, to get your leaders to invest in free you to focus on productivity, instead of struggling to debug libraries in unpaid overtime. 💗 Wherever you are in the world, from #Australia 🇦🇺 to #USA 🇺🇸 to #India 🇮🇳 to #EU 🇪🇺 to #UK 🇬🇧 , DM me or our team at Flax & Teal Limited to see how we can de-risk open source in engineering through on-the-ground, local support. 🏗️ We are #openforbusiness. ___ As a person working in #science or #engineering, do you find working around #3rdparty #software limitations/bugs/challenges to be an expectation of your job?

Check Livestream 📺 Day 1.P1 . Summary The second edition of the OSPOs for Good symposium is set to be a multi-day conference held on 9th and 10th July 2024, with a richer global presence of diverse open source thinkers, with bigger ambitions and strides for championing OSPOs as a global network for good. Description Day 1 topics include: AI and Open Source, Open Source at the UN, Open Source in the Global South, Open Source and Governments. --- Opening Plenary: Embracing Open Source Technology to Achieve the SDGs Keynote: AI and Open Source High-Level Panel: AI and Open Source Interactive Session: AI and Open Source Spotlight Panel: Open Source in the Global South By building on the success of last year's event, the goal of the 2024 conference is to be 'bigger and better' in every way. This action symposium aims to serve as a high-level coming out party for open source in the UN system, delivering high-level thematic tracks that address key areas of open source policy, as well as highlighting emerging examples of 'open source for good' from across the globe. It will prominently highlight the theme of 'open source networks as enablers of global cooperation'. While the 2024 conference will of course focus on the role of Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) like last year's event, this conference will expand the scope to focus on how the conversation around OSPOs are enabling new forms of global cooperation around open source for good in countries.

🔔 Updates from our Community Programme - continued In 2023 we integrated 6 third-party projects into the OWS.EU ecosystem to contribute sustainable R&D activities. The six selected projects have been looking into technical, legal and economic research topics in support of a European Open Web Index. Being halfway into the project timelines, we are sharing some preliminary results from all projects including outlooks. 📍Today in the spotlight: Project LOREN with legal insights on operating an #OpenWebIndex Building the Open Web Index is at the core of the OWS.EU project. However, this intend does not only implies technical challenges, but also legal and societal ones. Following our Open Call 1 last year, Project LOREN was set up to investigate a variety of such legal questions around building and piloting the Open Web Index. The team consists of lawyers Paul C. Johannes and Maxi Nebel. They have compiled and analysed numerous laws and norms that are of relevance when building and maintaining an Open Web Index. Results are currently compiled into a legal opinion with actionable advice regarding #crawling, #searching, #indexing, #sharing of index and #disclosure of #data for scientific purposes.   ➡What’s next?  The LOREN team has started to work on the implications of the right to #dereferencing as well as an analysis of existing #opensource and #opendata licenses in regard to the suitability for usage in an Open Web Index. In the next months the team will concentrate on providing their legal opinion with actionable advice concerning selection and/or adaptation of open data licenses for the #OpenWebIndex. #OpenWebSearch  #ThirdPartyProjects  #CommunityUpdate University of Passau Radboud University CERN German Aerospace Center (DLR) University of Leipzig Technische Universität Graz IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center CSC - IT Center for Science A1 Slovenija d.d. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Open Search Foundation  NGI - The Next Generation Internet

A comprehensive overview of progress in Research Software management and supporting activities since the release of the FAIR4RS principles in 2022.