2010 Edition: Call for contributions
Time has come to re-open the debates which will feed the 3rd edition of 2020 FLOSS Roadmap.
Since 2009 edition (see http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/roadmap/synthesis/), it looks like FLOSS has been through the crisis but with various side effects. While we may confirm FLOSS is there to stay, the tensions between open and free are highly sensitive (again); cloud computing is perceived as an attempt to enclose FLOSS, global agreements are in progress to reinforce intellectual property rights, net neutrality is threatened by Internet providers and legal, etc. All this making 2009-2010 period sound a bit like “the empire strikes back”.
For the 3rd edition of 2020 FLOSS Roadmap which will be published during Open World Forum (30 September and 1 October 2010 in Paris), we suggest to study and describe these different evolutions in the perspective of what has been done the previous years:
- In 2008, we established the foundations of our roadmap (see http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/roadmap/2008-roadmap/) and listed a number of recommendations
- In 2009, we challenged our vision and updated it with new paradigm such as “FLOSS is like Forests” and we added a new powerful recommendation i.e. FLOSS to be acknowledged as knowledge commons (see http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2020-floss-roadmap-2009-version1.pdf)
For 2010 edition , we would like to concentrate on 3 predominant topics which will be largely exposed and debated during the 2 days of Open World Forum (the following list of topics and questions is open to any suggestion or modification):
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FLOSS as Commons: what is the way, what are the actions for having FLOSS acknowledged globally as a strategic and crucial common for knowledge society? Is FLOSS paving the way for bigger initiatives and larger variety of commons? (see also http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/2010/01/19/a-path-from-information-to-action/)
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BRIC countries: how BRIC are using IT in their growth and how could they build larger projects joining forces on a collaborative mode? Will BRIC be the emerging leaders of useful and wealthy technological innovations? How FLOSS may help? (see also http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/roadmap/theme-7-brazil/ and http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/roadmap/appendix-floss-in-india/)
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Openness and freedom in Cloud Computing: will FLOSS ethics survive to privatization of key open source components by cloud suppliers? Will the nature of FLOSS stay unchanged or will evolve? (see also Open Cloud Tribune http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/roadmap/head-in-the-clouds/)
The basic idea is to give food for thoughts to these debates before and after OWF’10. And maybe to take the opportunity to have longer analysis than the one you may get during 1 hour panels or 20′ speeches. Of course on each topics, we are expecting contradictory debates enabling smart analysis of the situation and we are also expecting recommendations from experts in order for the initial 2020 FLOSS roadmap to become a reality.
We would really appreciate if you could devote a part of your time or at least a part of your thoughts to this collaborative effort. Our will is to be able to enrich altogether the average common knowledge about FLOSS not only as pieces of technology or competitive tactics but also as a mean to create sustainable wealth and to establish a fair and open knowledge society (one of the primary goal of Open World Forum is to create a space where to establish a common understanding of FLOSS and its related topics in order to build sustainable ecosystems on top of it).
If you are interested to participate to this effort for 2010 edition, please let us know by any mean you would judge appropriate. Feel free to forward this message to any contact who might be interested. Feel free also to contact me for additional details.
Look forward to collaborating with you
JPL.
Note for those who are not familiar with this collaborative effort.
The way we work is quite “classic”:
The main rules are openness and consensus: 2020 FLOSS Roadmap is open to any contributor as far as his/her contributions are accepted by the others. Any contributor can propose and lead a specific theme.
Around 40 contributors have participated so far to 2008 and 2009 editions (see http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/about/contributors/).
All contributors are copyright holders.
All documents are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
2020Flossroadmap.org site is used to publish all documents, minutes in order to be able to collect comments and criticism (thanks to co-ment, an AGPL web service http://www.co-ment.org/)
A dedicated mailing is also available which relays all changes of the web site, you can subscribe to it using the form in the top right corner of the home page of the 2020Flossroadmap.org website.
On twitter and identi.ca, the ash tag #20frm is used to refer any info relating to topics treated in our documents. This may be highly useful to feed our publication with valuable references and articles.
We organize frequent conference calls and meetings in order to publish a common document based on our findings in October 2010. The announcement of these calls or meetings are done via the web site .
Finally a draft edition will be proposed for final comment mid-September in order to be able to edit it and publish 1 October 2010.
For more information about 2020 FLOSS Roadmap, see 2020flossroadmap.org
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