2020 Floss Roadmap: 2009 Kick Off
Paris, 17 April 2009
This meeting has been organised in order to launch 2009 version of our Roadmap.
Most of Theme Directors were present:
Jean-Pierre Laisné (Bull) for Synthesis and coordination,
Alix Cazenave (April) for Theme 1 about Public Policies,
Cedric Thomas for Theme 3 about Ecosystems,
Eric Mahé (PLOSS) for Theme 4 about technologic and economic breaktrough,
Jean-Christophe Spilmont (Bull) and Philippe Montarges (Alterway) for Theme 5 about IT Governance.
We also welcomed 2 new members to our group:
Stephane Fermigier and Jean-Baptiste Soufron representing respectively Paris Region’s Competitiveness Clusters System@tic and Cap Digital for 2 new Themes (Theme 8 and 9) focused on fostering FLOSS R&D.
Finally Raphael Badin (Sopinspace) was also there to present our new collaborative platform 2020FlossRoadmap.org and Frederic Couchet (April) was invited to participate to the discussions.
Agenda
The following topics have been discussed:
- Presentation of 2020FlossRoadmap.org
- Objectives of 2009 Edition
- Internationalisation
- Planning (draft)
The slides used during this meeting can be downloaded here.
Presentation of 2020FlossRoadmap.org
This platform is designed to be the main media for 2020 Floss Roadmap contributors to communicate with the rest of the world. It includes RSS feed which will help to propagate news (like this one) to all suscribers. Of course it is open to all contributors for forwarding all news related to their Theme.
Rafael Badin introduced in detail the platform set up to manage properly our 2009 works.
The tools for the process updating the 2020 flossroadmap are twofold:
A blog website (http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/) used for communication about the whole process is the main website. On this blog, every theme director is an editor and is free to edit and publish any entry about the advance of the process. The theme texts themselves are encapsulated (à la youtube) meaning that they are accessible on this website and participants (that is, everyone) can add comments on it.
The second tool is the co-ment website itself which is the backend that Theme Directors will use to process the comments added on their text and revise the texts. co-ment is a very simple (open source) service whose sole purpose is to enable it’s users to publish texts, gather precise comments on them and edit them while keeping every version (à la wiki).
Note that the tool itself does not constraint the way Theme Directors will work with comments and how they will publish the url to invite users to add comments (for example, the url to publicise is http://www.2020flossroadmap.org/roadmap/theme-7-brazil/)
The following rules have been agreed by all Theme Directors.
Concerning Themes:
Each Theme Director is the owner responsible of the text she proposes for comments.
This text is open for comments from ANY contributor.
These comments are managed and included by each Theme Director in the next version of the resulting text.
Concerning 2020 Floss Roadmap Synthesis:
The coordinator is the owner responsible of the text she proposes for comments.
This text is open for comments from all Theme Directors.
Comments will be integrated by coordinator in a new version.
When validated by Theme Directors, this new version will be made public for comments.
This new text will be open for comments from ANY contributor.
These comments will be managed and included by Coordinator in the next version of the resulting synthesis.
Objectives of 2009 Edition
A group has been set up to identify analysts who might be interested in providing their data to enrich Themes. This group is composed of Jean-Christophe Spilmont, Cedric Thomas and Jean-Baptiste Souffron.
It has also been agreed that each Theme Director will identify the best method (scenarios or delphi) to establish properly the credibility of their Theme for 2009 version. These identified methods will be exposed and agreed during next meeting (see planning section)
Concerning the content of 2009 version, it has been agreed to feed it with more facts and concrete examples (see slide 6 of Kick Off Presentation for issues to be treated). Each Director will work to provide main lines of its update for next meeting.
Jean-Paul Smets (Nexedi) proposed by email to Coordinator 2 new subjects which have been approved by the group:
- FLOSS and Financial System: how Floss can help? (see Jean-Paul’s publication on
http://www.erp5.com/erp5-Open.Source.Banking.Financial.Stability). This proposal has been accepted as a new Theme (Theme 10.)
- Cloud Computing : the end of IT jobs? This has been accepted as a follow up of the « Head In Clouds » article published in 2008 version
Eric Mahé proposed to expose some success story and significant figures (such
as http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack)
Internationalisation
A group composed of Jean-Christophe Spilmont, Stéphane Fermigier, Eric Mahé and Rafael Badin will work on the communication side of 2020 Floss Roadmap to make it more visible and attractive to more contributors.
Planning
Concerning dates, the proposed planning (see slide 8 of Kick Off Presentation ) has been agreed by all Theme Directors.
It has been agreed that a 2020 Floss Roadmap meeting will be organised with April’s support during RMLL 2009 in Nantes (7 – 11 July 2009). During this meeting, Theme Directors will expose the result of their work for 2009. This will coincide with the kick off 2009 Synthesis.
Next meeting is planned for 18th May 2009 at 2:30PM CEST (same location)
Of course all meetings are open and you are warmly invited to participate. When necessary we can also set up confcalls to help international contributors to participate. Please contact us.
To conclude I must add that this meeting has been held in a very friendly and efficient way. And I would like to thank the participants for their active contribution.
Kind regards,
Jean-Pierre Laisné
2020 Floss Roadmap Coordinator
