Software is deeply involved in all aspects of the 21st century. It is important that this technology empowers rather than restricts citizens and public bodies, and Free Software is the key to secure the necessary digital and analogue freedoms. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been working for this cause for over 17 years.
This talk will provide a brief overview of the FSFE's previous and ongoing activities to foster software freedom in Europe on the levels of politics, legal work with enterprises, and general public awareness. The speaker will then turn the spotlight on the recently launched "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign which aims at ensuring that public administrations have full control over the software and the computer systems at the core of our state digital infrastructure.
The audience will learn why Free and Open Source Software is a crucial precondition to secure a healthy software market, individual civil rights, and our today's democracies.
Programme Manager, Free Software Foundation Europe
Max Mehl is Programme Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and coordinates initiatives in the areas of license compliance, policy, and public awareness. But he is also frequently to be found in the virtual server room of the FSFE. He sees Free Software as an important... Read More →
Simon Phipps serves on the Board of The Document Foundation as well as at OSI and The Open Rights Group. He is managing director of open community specialists Meshed Insights Ltd. Previously he was head of open source at Sun Microsystems and a co-founder of the Java business at I... Read More →
The Erlang language and system was designed around a set of requirements for telecom systems. They were distributed, massively concurrent systems which had to scale with demand, be capable of handling massive peak loads and never fail. The Erlang concurrency and error-handling model was developed around these requirements.
This talk will briefly describe the development of the language and the design of systems based on the Erlang. Erlang is now celebrating that it has been open source for 20 years and I will talk a bit about the problems we had in getting it open sourced and issues in maintaining it as open source software.
Robert Virding is one of the co-inventors of Erlang and a founding member of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab.He developed the original system design, wrote the current compiler and contributed many of the original libraries. While at the lab, he also worked on the implementation... Read More →
The city of Paris has developed a modular Open Source Java platform to deliver digital city tools. This Software is an opportunity for other cities or associations to freely reuse, contribute and provide on shelf services to their citizens.
8 years as Java JEE developer and 5 as digital project manager.Joined City of Paris and Lutece team in 2016. In charge of numerous digital services used by Parisians in their every day life.
KNOWAGE Business Developer, KNOWAGE Labs by Engineering Group
He's been working since He was 14 years old. Paolo has experienced different roles. He has had different kind of responsibilities, from zero to team leader. He’s been a member of the Administrative Board of the public institution “EDiSU of Pavia University” for 4 years. His... Read More →
