Workshop documentation: an overview of past IDABC workshops with documents and presentations

IDABC Workshop on the EUPL in Brussels

Upon invitation of the IDABC Programme, legal experts and OSS practitioners from across Europe have met on 25 January 2008 in Brussels to discuss their experiences with the EUPL. The Licence was created by the European Commission to release software as Open Source and is already available in all official EU languages on the EUPL web page.

IDABC event 2007

The IDABC event 2007 was hosted by the Free Software World Conference in Badajoz (Spain). The requirements for the Open Source Observatory and Repository were at the centre of presentations and discussions. A major agenda point was the presentation of the European Union Public License v1.0.

IDABC OSS Workshop (2006)

On invitation of the Czech Ministry for Informatics the IDABC OSS Workshop 2006 took place in Prague in parallel to the Linuxworld Exhibition and Conference. Presentations and discussions focused on organisational, legal and technical aspects of cross-border collaboration.

IDABC OSS event at LinuxTag 2005

In June 2005 the annual LinuxTag fair and conference hosted again an IDABC OSS event. A first draft version of the software licence entitled European Union Public Licence (EUPL) was presented and discussed with the participants.

Workshop on OSS Competence in the Public Sector (June 23, 2004)

In June 2004, IDABC organised a one-day workshop in Karlsruhe, Germany on OSS Competence in the Public Sector. This workshop brought together 62 representatives from public sector bodies that provide assistance and advice on the deployment of open source software in public administrations and allowed them to share their experiences, good practices and applications.

OSS symposium (2001)

In February 2001, IDA organised an OSS symposium which allowed representatives of European public administrations to share experiences and to discuss with the private sector on the benefits and disadvantages of OSS in the public sector.