Programme

Working with the Community: OSS in Public Administrations
Thursday 23 June 2005, Karlsruhe (Germany)

Please note:  All Speakers to be confirmed, this programme is subject to change

Morning Session: Pooling Resources

10.30          Managing the Transition of the public sector from FOSS user to FOSS Actor: The

                  Hephaïstos Project

                 Patrick Sinz, Adullact, France

11.15         Collaborative development in the public sector - the Belgian experience

                 Oliver Schneider, Expert, Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Informatisation de l'Etat, Belgium

11.45          Coffee Break

12.00          Public Administrations Partnering with Free Software Developers 
                  Rishab Ghosh, Merit, The Netherlands

12.30          Discussion & Conclusion

13.00          Lunch Break

Afternoon Session: Licensing Open Source Software

14.00          Open Source Licensing of software developed by The European Commission - the
                  CIRCA solution
                  Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Unisys, Belgium
                  Jean-Paul Triaille, Lontings & Partners, Belgium

14.45              Towards an OSS License for Europe

                   Till Jaeger, Jaschinski Biere Brexl Rechtsanwälte; Institut for Legal Questions on Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS), Munich, Germany

15.15           Discussion & Conclusion

16.00           Coffee Break

Open Forum*: OSS as economic factor

16.20           The Impact of Open Source Software on Competition on Software Markets – A study sponsored

                   by the German Federal Ministry of Economics

                   Jens Mundhenke, Kiel Institute for World Economics, Germany

17.00           Get Together

*also open to other visitors of the Linuxtag 2005