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European Commission on Cloud
A workshop about “The Future of Cloud Computing” has been held in Brussels on the 26th of January. This workshop gathered 300 attendees from European Community and from other countries such as India, Japan and USA - this presence reminding the global nature of the topic and the necessity of international collaborations.
Organised by European [...]
A path from information to action
Introduction to 2010 Edition
While Open World Forum 2010 has been officially launched during last Steering Committee and Forum Committee’s meetings earlier in January, let’s have a look at what are the objectives of the 3rd edition of 2020 FLOSS Roadmap as it will be published end of September.
Full text of 2010 working document is freely [...]
Christmas 09 Gift: New Column
A new column is now available on 2020flossroadmap.org: Related Links
This new column is a collection of all links gathered since last edition of the road map thanks to all tweets, blogs and news published during this period. All these links are related to the key topics of our study:
Commons
Digital Economy, Copyrights, etc.
Business Ecosystems
Education, employment and [...]
FLOSS and commons: the roots
How etymology of the word commons illuminates FLOSS
When we started discussing about next version of 2020 Floss Roadmap, we agreed to insist on the importance of FLOSS to be acknowledged as a commons. And this brought to the table three questions: “why FLOSS should be considered as a commons?”, “Who has to acknowledged FLOSS as [...]
What happened since 2nd edition of 2020 Floss Roadmap?
Here is a (too long?) report about what has been going on since 2nd edition was released.
Personal message
First of all and as some of you may have noticed, I broke my neck. And this accident prevented me to fully enjoy Open World Forum 2010, the presence of so many high level speakers and at [...]
2009 Version in the news
Published few weeks ago, 2009 update of 2020 Floss Roadmap has been commented by journalists and bloggers (see In the News).
About 2009 recommendation, it sounds interesting to highlight here two similar feedbacks which bring some valuable food for thoughts and which might influence our future work.
The first one is signed by Matthew Aslett in FOSS: [...]
2020 FLOSS Roadmap reevaluates its projections
2020 FLOSS Roadmap reevaluates its projections and identifies significant changes in its 2009 edition.
For its first edition, Open World Forum had launched an initiative of prospective unique in the world: the 2020 FLOSS Roadmap. This Roadmap is a projection of the influences that will affect FLOSS until 2020, with descriptions of all FLOSS-related trends as [...]
2009 Synthesis is now available!
2020 FLOSS Roadmap reevaluates its projections and identifies significant changes in its 2009 edition.
This edition is now published and will be presented during Open World Forum on October 2, 2009.
The 2009 Synthesis summarizes the discussions that have taken place during last months.
A printable version can be downloaded here and an executive summary is available [...]
2009 Draft Open For Comment Now!
The Draft of 2009 version is now ready for your comments before final edition.
Participation is free and open to everyone. To comment, just click here and add your comment directly on the text (highlighted portions of the text show the locations of already existing comments)
The final version will be published for Open World Forum on [...]
2020 FLOSS Roadmap at CONSEGI, Brasilia
2020 FLOSS Roadmap was introduced to CONSEGI’s attendees on the 26th of August in Brazilia.
The II International Free Software Congress for E-Government was organized by the Free Software Comittee (CISL), executive secretary (at the Office House of the Presidency), by The Federal Service for Data Processing (Serpro, Ministry of Finance), and by the Secretary of [...]
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