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Bringing together directors of some of the biggest Open Source communities (Apache, Eclipse, Gnome, OpenOffice, OSA, OW2...), this summit has been founded at OWF'09 to enable further synergies and possible angles for future collaboration and exchange of best practices to be identified. The second FLOSS Communities Summit will be dedicated to "Open Communities: XXI century organizations". It will discuss the operational efficiency and the business impact of open communities > |
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The first summit organized by CIOs for CIOs, the Open CIO Summit has been founded at OWF'09 to enable best practice in Open Source governance for user enterprises to be identified. A report on best practices has been published as the result of the first Open CIO Summit, with recommendations for IT Departments. The second Open CIO Summit will focus on: "the value of Open Source: from perception to reality". The Open CIO Summit is an on invitation only event, reserved to CIOs [event in french]. |
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Co-ordinated by the QualiPSo consortium, this summit brought together for the first time at OWF'09 the directors of numerous international centers for the promotion and development of Open Source (from Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the USA...) and led to the signing of agreements to launch a dedicated international Network of FLOSS Competence Centers. This network has been now formally launched and will hold its second Summit at OWF'10, in synergy with the Open BRIC Summit. |
Founded at OWF'08, the FLOSS Policies Summit enabled participants from various regions to debate experiences on public policies relating to Free Libre and Open Source Software. In 2009, it was rounded off by the Open Source IDABC 2009 event, which brought together the main European sponsors of public open projects, to share best practice and initiatives. It also awarded the Brazil, recognizing the excellence of its public policy on the use of Free / Open Source software. In 2010, the OWF will welcome high level representatives from Brazil, Russia, India and China, for the first ever Open BRIC summit. |
Never has been diversity so celebrated in today's open World. Yet, woman are very minoritarian in the IT industry, and count by only 1,6% in the technical Free/Open Source communites that shape the digital future. Why? How to make it change? To answer these questions, the OWF'10 will welcome a dedicated Diversity Summit, intended to community members, HR managers, company executives and all those interested in diversity and equality. |
Software forges are the cornerstone of Open Source software developments. How do you foster the development of and interoperability between forges, to avoid data lock-in? The first ever Open Forges Summit will gather together worldwide leaders from the forges community to debate the issues. |
With major mergers and acquisitions, 2010 appears to be a life-changing year in the Open Source Industry. For the first time, leading analysts will debate about their vision of how Open Source is evolving in 2010, and their predictions for the future. This Open IT Analysts Summit will explore trends in the adoption of Open Source by both customers and vendors, as well as how business strategies and procurement policies fit into the picture. Importantly, a synthesis of the debate will be reported in a final 'Open Source barometer'. This event is specifically aimed at community leaders and CxOs of Open Source corporations. |
Cloud Computing is the 'Next Big Thing' in IT. If Open Source has enabled giants like Google and Amazon to emerge, interoperability is a key battlefield for many new entrants. What does the range of possible options look like? What roles might interoperability and/or Open Source play? The Open Cloud Summit will debate all these points. Are APIs, image fand storage formats, languages, export tools and messaging formats the key to the Open Cloud? We should certainly have a better idea of this at the end of this Think Tank.
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'All Change Please': This Open Source Marketing Think Tank will debate how Open Source is forcing profound change on vendors, customers and their interrelationships. On the customer side, it will also explore how the open model involves business practice transformation and adaptation to constant change. |
In addition, the OWF 2010 will also partner with the Open Source Think Tank (OSTT) 2010 Paris Edition, which will be held September 28 and 29 in conjunction with the Open World Forum.
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