“Freeing Public Sector Software”
Monday 29 November (9:30 - 18:30)
THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS' EXPECTATIONS AND POSITIONS TOWARDS FLOSS
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome speech: Massimo Giordano, Minister of Innovation of Piedmont Region
Morning (10:00-13:30)
- EU Parliament: Initiatives at European Parliament, (Eva Lichtenberger, MEP)
- European Commission: Interoperable solutions for public administrations: the ISA Programme (Szabolcs Szekacs, Informatics Directorate-General - Interoperable Solutions for European Public Administrations - ISA)
- Italy: Free Software in Turin Province (Ida Vana, Minister for Productive Activities and Information System, Turin Province)
- Italy: The work of the Commissione Ministeriale sull’Open Source (Prof. Angelo Raffaele Meo, Politecnico di Torino)
- Italy: Piedmont Region law (Roberto Moriondo, Director of innovation, research and university department, Piedmont Region)
Round Table
- Sandro Golzio (Director of Informatic System Office of the City of Torino)
- Stefano De Capitani (Director of CSI-Piemonte)
- Laura Castellani (Tuscany Region)
- Ineke Schop (NOIV)
- Prof. Angelo Raffaele Meo (Politecnico di Torino)
chairman: Roberto Moriondo (Director of innovation, research and university department, Piedmont Region)
Questions & Answers
Lunch (13:30)
Afternoon (4h) (14:30-18:30)
- Netherlands: Dutch action plan on interoperability and open source software (Ineke Schop, Head of NOIV)
- Spain: The Spanish interoperability framework and FLOSS (Miguel A. Amutio Gomès, Ministry of Presidency)
- India: Free Software in public sector - Kerala experience (Arun Madhavan Pillai, International Center for FLOSS, Govt of Kerala)
- Italy: FLOSS and Public Administration: barriers and opportunities for adoption (Sebastiano Lomuscio, System Architect, CONSIP)
- Estonia: The Estonian software policy (Uuno Vallner, Head of eGovernment Division Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications)
- Ecuador: Free software in Ecuador, (Diego Chavez, Subsecretarìa de Informática, Presidencia de la República del Ecuador)
- Italy: Free Software in CSI (Pier Paolo Gruero, CSI-Piemonte)
- Spain: Free software in Extremadura (Carlos M Cabo Domínguez, Project Manager Fundecyt)
Questions & Answers
Tuesday 30 November (10:00 - 18:30)
LEGAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
Morning (10:00-13:30)
Legal aspects of passing laws in favour of FLOSS in the administrations
- Positive externalities of free software (Marco Ciurcina, StudioLegale.it)
- Fair treatment and affirmative actions towards Free Software by the Public Administration (Carlo Piana)
- The case of France (Benjamin Jean, Linagora)
- The case of UK (Mark Henley)
- The case of Spain (Malcom Bain)
- FLOSS policy must reclaim data and services from the cloud (Philippe Aigrain)
Questions & Answers
FLOSS and public procurement regulations compliance: how should calls for tenders be drafted in order to not discriminate against FLOSS?
- Do we need affirmative action in procurement for open standards and FLOSS? (Mathieu Paapst, University of Groningen)
- Downloading free software instead of tendering for it (Reinout Rinzema)
- Switzerland: Red Hat vs BBL case (Michel Jaccard)
- Italy: Associazione per il Software Libero v. Provincia di Bolzano & Microsoft (Adriano Sponzilli & Francesco Paolo Micozzi)
Questions & Answers
Lunch (13:30)
Afternoon (4h) (14:30-18:30)
IP management, distribution & Licensing
- The Importance of licence compatibility and interoperability in FLOSS procurement and distribution. The EUPL case (Patrice E. Schmitz – legal counsel www.osor.eu)
- Mutualize needs to produce commons (François Élie, President of ADDULACT)
- Software reuse and license choice. Case studies (Fabio Bravo - University of Bologna)
- FLOSS compliance through the supply chain (Alessandro Orsi - HP)
- The use of contribution agreements and importance of inbound software management -Project Harmony (Carlo Piana & Malcolm Bain)
Questions & Answers
Catering: through the event