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<title>European Free Software Policy Meeting 2017</title>
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<h1>European Free Software Policy Meeting 2017</h1>
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<p>Building on the experience from last year's <a href="/news/2016/news-20160205-01.html">successful
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pre-FOSDEM meeting</a>, the <a href="/index.html">Free
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Software Foundation Europe</a> and <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/">OpenForum Europe</a> recently
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continued the tradition of bringing together active Free Software groups
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a day before the FOSDEM event, in order to discuss public policy related
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actions at both the EU and the national levels. This year, the meeting
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focused on encouraging exchanges of views between individual citizens
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and decision-makers, by providing practical first-hand information on topics
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relating to Free Software in public policy.</p>
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<p>The session started with Sebastian Raible (parliamentary assistant to
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Julia Reda (a Member of the European Parliament)), who gave a <a href="http://raible.org/presentations/2017-02-03_FOSSA_Pre-FOSDEM-Meetup/#1">presentation
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about Free Software developments from the perspective of the European Parliament</a>. He explained
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the progress of the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eu-fossa/description">Free and Open Source Software Audit (or FOSSA) programme</a>, which
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was extended for another three years at the end of 2016, and explained
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that one of the main changes to the programme is that now it includes a
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new “bug bounty” incentive scheme, rewarding the discovery and reporting
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of new software bugs. Participants highlighted their concerns over the
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methodology of FOSSA, and the need to focus on its aim, namely, support
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for the security of the Free Software projects.</p>
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<p>Next, Pierre Damas (Head of Sector, Digital Services at the Directorate
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General of Information Technologies of the European Commission) shared
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with the group some of the <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/EC-Open-Source-Strategy-OFE-PRE-FOSDEM-1.pdf">Commission's plans</a> for
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updating its <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/european-commissions-open-source-strategy_en">Open Source Software Strategy</a>, identifying
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the key barriers and motivations for adopting it in practice. According
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to Pierre Damas, although within the Commission Free Software is technically now
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treated equally with its proprietary counterparts, there remains a lack
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of political will to back up the mainstream adoption of Free Software technologies
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within the EU institutions. According to him, the next step for the updated
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Open Source Strategy in the Commission is the "digital transformation" of
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areas such as "cloud", big data, and the "Internet of Things".</p>
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<a href="/graphics/2017-policy-meeting.jpg">
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<img src="/graphics/2017-policy-meeting.jpg" alt="Policy meeting" width="100%"/>
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</a>
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</div>
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<p>Jaana Sahk-Labi (from the Estonian Permanent Representation to the EU) <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/presentation-pre-FOSDEM-03022017-1.pdf">presented
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Estonia's national framework for supporting the implementation of Free Software</a>. Estonia is
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considered to be the leader in e-Government at the EU level, and is planning
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to highlight e-Government topics during its presidency of the Council of
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the EU, in the second half of 2017. One of the main challenges for the
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Estonian government in the upcoming presidency will be the right approach
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for future-proofing "no legacy" policies that continue after the term of
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Estonia's presidency has come to an end. Consequently, Estonia is preaching
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for a digital revolution in the EU institutions.</p>
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<p>Laurent Joubert (from the French government) <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PGO_FOSS-contribution-policy-43-1.pdf">presented
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the Open Source Contribution Policy Template</a> which has been drafted
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by numerous representatives from governments, non-governmental
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organisations, companies, international organisations and academic sector
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as a part of the <a href="https://paris-declaration.ogpsummit.org/topic/5820e48c2fd812b46ab9facc">Open
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Government Partnership</a>. The aim of this template is to provide an easily
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shareable and ready-to-use template for governments – as well as other
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public administrations - to set up a policy for code contributions made
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by civil servants, which have to be open by default. The ultimate goal of
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such a policy is to facilitate, share and reuse the code developed by and
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for public administrations.</p>
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<p>The speakers' presentations were followed by a round table discussion, engaging
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the participants in considering the possibility creating a dashboard, which
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would serve as a tool for advocacy groups to assess best practices and
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policies for supporting Free Software and Open Standards (OS) in Member States. Part
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of the discussion was dedicated to finding ways to evaluate the existing
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national or regional policies which support Free Software. A couple of identified
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indicators of "openness" were: the level of Free Software usage; and the fact of
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using global analytics of online procedures. In addition, certain other
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criteria will also need to be taken into account: transparency of how Free Software
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is adopted in the public sector; the implementation of the policy in practice; and
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product maturity. The participants agreed to start working on listing the
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parameters which would describe "best behaviour" on the part of government, with
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a view to developing concrete steps or actions to support governments to
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achieve this.</p>
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<p>The meeting was a stepping-stone, paving the way for a bigger collaboration
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on how to promote public policies supporting Free Software across Europe. We hope to continue
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the collaboration and to coordinate our actions in order to collectively
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make a difference on the policy level.</p>
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