We present you 'A Concise Introduction to Free and Open Source Software', the latest OpenForum Academy publication explaining the basics of FOSS and why it is about more than sharing the code and licensing. We divided the paper into five parts that we will send to you each Thursday in August.
This comprehensive paper is written by our OFA fellow Andrew Updegrove, legal expert on standard-setting and open source who is also the author of well-received fiction books where he imagines cyber-disasters and dives into the future of technology.
You can read the introductory chapter on our website by clicking the link below.
Some OFE updates:
→ On 9th of July we partnered up with OW2 as an Associate Organisation. We are glad to join OW2, an independent, global, open-source software community, promoting the development of open-source middleware, business applications and cloud computing platforms. Take a look OW2 and other Associate Organizations here.
→ We welcomed a new colleague on board. Paula Grzegorzewska is our new Policy Analyst, you can reach her at paula@openforumeurope.org.
→OpenForum Academy also welcomed new Fellows:
Ardy Siegert - owner of Ardytectuur, senior IT expert on open source and open standards Arjan Widlak - director of Kafkabrigade and owner of United Knowledge Dirk-Willem van Gulik- owner of Webweaving, co-founder/initial president of Apache Ian Brown - cybersecurity expert, research fellow at Research ICT Africa Knut Blind - professor for innovation economics at TU Berlin specialized in standardisation Roberto di Cosmo - director of Software Heritage and IRILL
Also, you can plan ahead and sign up for our events in September:
26.09 | EU FOSS Policy Meeting
OFE and FSFE invite you for the follow-up event to our successful pre-FOSDEM event in February. Read more or register for the event
For now, we wish you a pleasant summer and see you next week with the first part of Andrew's paper "OSS: The basics" where he explores what free and open software actually is and what it isn't.
