Alexander Sander

The organizers of the Legal and Policy DevRoom discuss together the issues they've seen over the last year in FOSS, and consider what we can learn from the presentations on the track this year, and look forward together about the future of FOSS policy.

Other people: Tom Marble Bradley M. Kuhn Karen Sandler

Introduction and Welcome to the Legal and Policy Issues Devroom

Other people: Tom Marble Matthias Kirschner Bradley M. Kuhn Karen Sandler

The organizers of the Legal and Policy DevRoom for FOSDEM 2022 discuss together the issues they've seen over the last year in FOSS, and consider what we can learn from the presentations on the track this year, and look forward together about the future of FOSS policy.

The organizers of the Legal and Policy DevRoom for FOSDEM 2022 discuss together the issues they've seen over the last year in FOSS, and consider what we can learn from the presentations on the track this year, and look forward together about the future of FOSS policy.

Other people: Bradley M. Kuhn Karen Sandler Max Mehl

The Corona crisis has made it clear to us which developments in digitisation we have missed in recent years. Administrations, but also many employers, were not prepared for this. Often, they simply chose some “obvious” solution in order to remain or become workable. Only a few considered the effects and consequences, for example in terms of data protection and privacy, as well as future dependencies on single vendors. In schools, video conferencing solutions that did not comply with data protection regulations were used, some administrations were not able to work at all and many processes are still not digitised. At the same time, there are also positive examples. Free software has become more and more of a topic and more and more administrations have understood the advantages it brings. I would like to take a look at the developments of the past year and give an outlook on how we can better face future crises through the use of Free Software and what role governments, public bodies and administrations and the principle of “Public Money? Public Code! play in this.

What role did Free Software play during the crisis

The Corona crisis has made it clear to us which developments in digitisation we have missed in recent years. Administrations, but also many employers, were not prepared for this. Often, they simply chose some “obvious” solution in order to remain or become workable. Only a few considered the effects and consequences, for example in terms of data protection and privacy, as well as future dependencies on single vendors. In schools, video conferencing solutions that did not comply with data protection regulations were used, some administrations were not able to work at all and many processes are still not digitised.
At the same time, there are also positive examples. Free software has become more and more of a topic and more and more administrations have understood the advantages it brings.
I would like to take a look at the developments of the past year and give an outlook on how we can better face future crises through the use of Free Software and what role governments, public bodies and administrations and the principle of “Public Money? Public Code! play in this.

Immer mehr Verwaltungen folgen dem Prinzip „Public Money? Public Code!“ und setzen auf Freie Software. Im letzten Jahr wurde jedoch deutlich, dass noch ein langer Weg vor uns liegt. In dem Vortrag werden die jüngsten Entwicklungen beleuchtet und ein Ausblick für die Zeit nach der Bundestagswahl gewagt.

Vielen Verwaltungen in Deutschland wurden durch die Corona-Krise verdeutlicht, welche Entwicklungen sie in den letzten Jahren verpasst hatten. Auf die Schnelle versuchte man die fehlenden Lösungen zu beschaffen, ohne dabei an künftige Probleme wie Abhängikgeiten von einzelnen Anbietern, Datenschutzprobleme oder explodierende Kosten zu denken. Andere Verwaltungen wiederum haben nachhaltige Lösungen gesucht und auf Freie Software gesetzt. In dem Vortrag wird untersucht, welche Rolle das Prinzip Public Money? Public Code! während des letzten Jahres spielte und welchen Herausforderungen wir in den nächsten Jahren gegenüberstehen.

The organizers of the Legal and Policy DevRoom for FOSDEM 2021 discuss together the issues they've seen over the last year in FOSS, and consider what we can learn from the presentations on the track this year, and look forward together about the future of FOSS policy.

The organizers of the Legal and Policy DevRoom for FOSDEM 2021 discuss together the issues they've seen over the last year in FOSS, and consider what we can learn from the presentations on the track this year, and look forward together about the future of FOSS policy.

Other people: Bradley M. Kuhn Karen Sandler Richard Fontana Max Mehl

On October 21st 2021, the European Commission approved the new Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023 of the Commission. We will interview Evangelos Tsavalopoulos on this.

In the interview we will ask the most important questions about this strategy.

Other people: Evangelos TSAVALOPOULOS

Global problems need global solutions!

In a time when humanity needs to work together to find solutions for a crisis, we cannot afford to reinvent the wheel again and again. Global problems need global solutions! It is Free Software that enables global cooperation for code development. Any proprietary solution will inevitably lead to countless isolated solutions and waste energy and time which we as humanity cannot afford in such a critical situation.

Free Software licences allow sharing of code in any jurisdiction. Solutions developed in one country can be reused and adapted in another one. International development agencies and humanitarian movements can help to contain the spread of COVID-19 in any country around the world with the availability of Free Software solutions.

Already before this crisis hundreds of organisations and tens of thousands of people demanded that publicly financed software developed for the public sector must be made publicly available under Free Software licences. It is now even more important than ever before to tackle this crisis.

Do you want to promote Free Software as well? Then the campaign framework of “Public Money? Public Code!” might be the right choice for you; no matter if you want to do it as an individual or as a group; no matter if you have a small or large time budget.

Warum wird durch Steuergelder finanzierte Software nicht als Freie Software veröffentlicht? Mit Hilfe der Kampagne Public Money? Public Code! wollen wir die rechtlichen Grundlagen schaffen, die es erfordern, dass mit öffentlichen Geldern für öffentliche Verwaltungen entwickelte Software unter einer Freie-Software- und Open-Source Lizenz veröffentlicht wird. Wenn es sich um öffentliche Gelder handelt, sollte auch der Code öffentlich sein! In dem Talk wird unsere Kampagne vorgestellt und aufgezeigt, warum es sich lohnt, diese zu unterstützen.