OSOR.eu: The Open Source Observatory and Repository «Bringing the European public sector together»

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1 OSOR.eu: The Open Source Observatory and Repository «Bringing the European public sector together» RMLL2009, Nantes 07/07/09

2 About Strateqo Consortium Contractor of IDABC In charge of OSOR.eu stakeholder involvment, community development and definition of user needs Organisation of the IDABC OSS event 2009: at the Open World Forum - Paris

3 About IDABC IDABC stands for: Interoperable Delivery of pan-european egovernment Services to Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens IDABC is a program of the European Commission

4 IDABC Activities on OSS IDABC is funding and/or implementing: Projects to create awareness and promote knowledge on OSS in public administrations Projects producing practical advice for public administrations Projects building applications using OSS and being distributed under the EUPL Projects in support of collaboration between member states administrations and their partners

5 Introducing OSOR.eu OSOR is an acronym standing for Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations: Continuation and extension of the previous IDABC Open Source Observatory (OSO) The "Observatory" in the OSOR is aimed at promoting the spread of good practice in the use of OSS by public administrations. The "Repository" has been set up by IDABC as a new action: to support the collaborative development of OSS applications and solutions specifically targeting public sector requirements and their deployment; to encourage the re-use of publicly-financed Open Source Software (OSS) developments.

6 What is OSOR.eu The objectives are cooperation and sharing The instrument is a platform to actively support the sharing of OSS-based egovernment applications and experiences across Europe The strategy is to connect EU services and Member State administrations and animate an OSOR.eu community

7 OSOR.eu Main Services Information platform -Website delivering news around OSS -Providing guidance on legal, technical, organisational issues around OSS and collaboration Registry and Repository Facilities for download/uploading and search/retrieval of public sector software Providing visibility for and connect to other European collaboration platforms (-> building a network) Platform for collaboration Supporting collaborative cross-border projects (hosting communities) EUPL: European Union Public License Legal instrument for the EC and the EU public sector

8 OSS projects at OSOR.eu Own IDABC's OSS projects: elink: middleware for secure transactions between administrations and their communication partners CircaBC: tool for the online collaboration of working groups IPM Interactive Policy Making: web-based tool for the construction, programming and evaluation of online questionnaires eprocurement demonstrator: to help software editors and contracting authorities in Europe to develop eprocurement systems in line with the EU legislative framework

9 OSS projects at OSOR.eu Other European Commission projects Ergonomics JavaScript widget toolkit Business Cycle Clock Eurostat XBRL Reference Architecture Flexible Platform for Internet Services SDMX Framework Eurostat SDMX Converter and other EC funded projects in programs like FP6, FP7, etc.

10 OSS projects at OSOR.eu Our star projects WollMux (City of Munich, DE): downloads OpenOffice.org plugin Sextante (University of Extremadura, ES): downloads A set of extensions for gvsig with spatial data analysis capabilities More than 80 registered projects today

11 The OSOR.eu network of repositories A unique federated network of EU repositories: 1670 projects searchable at OSOR.eu

12 OSOR.eu communities Communities focused on specific areas: DEMETRA+ eid/esignature/pki EUPL FLOSS in Austrian courts GIS/SDI Humanitarian FOSS Municipalities OSS and Statistics PloneGov Citizens Portal Local Government Ireland OpenOffice.org in Public. Author. SIGnergias XMPPMessaging

13 Introducing the EUPL EUPL is an acronym for European Union Public Licence The first European OSS licence. Created on the initiative of the European Commission. The first OSS license with the same official value in most European languages. v1.0 approved by the European Commission on January 9 th 2007 in three linguistic versions. By a second Decision, in 9 th January 2008, the European Commission validated the v1.0 in 22 EU official languages. By a third one validated v1.1 in 9 th January 2009 OSI certifies v1.1 on March 4 th 2009.

14 Why the EUPL? Yet another OS license? Not really; EUPL satisfies: the specificity of Community and European Member State's law regarding copyright principles the specificity of Community and Member State's law regarding warranty and liability issues the specificity of Community and Member State's law regarding applicable law and jurisdiction the requirement to obtain a text legally valid in all the official languages of the European Union.

15 Why the EUPL? Yet another OS license? Not really: EUPL is compatible! General Public licence (GPL) v. 2 Open Software licence (OSL) v. 2.1, v. 3.0 Common Public licence v. 1.0 Eclipse Public licence v. 1.0 Cecill v. 2.0 IDABC's aim is to offer a license secure for public sector users and publishers and friendly for developers. IDABC's is actively in touch with the FLOSS community. EUPL project is alive and subject to enhancements. Users are supported at the OSOR.eu EUPL community.

16 OSOR.eu Software Infrastructure Operating System Debian GNU/Linux Information Platform runs on Plone v3 Collaborative Development Environment (CDE) runs with Gforge IDABC requirement: COTS OSS

17 OSOR.eu Hardware Infrastructure

18 Hardware Characteristics Standard technologies: Intel x86-64 compatible, 2 or more cores, 2 Ghz or better. Memory: 2 to 8 Gb, depending on node. Storage: Minimum RAID-1, with compatible controllers. Always redundant power supply. Gigabit Ethernet network. Nodes for processing (virtual machine hosters): Better CPU (4 cores) and memory (8 Gb). Nodes for storage (disk servers or backup server): Storage space: 4 Tb capacity, 2 Tb available with RAID-1. Upgradeable to 8 Tb total / 4 Tb available. Gigabit network. GE interfaces, Managed GE switches.

19 OSOR.eu and business OSOR.eu is not business, but it's business aware: authorship traceability open and transparent development is being tracked by our forge's tools, so is auditable who is who and who really does the real work dissemination OSOR.eu is attracting a lot of eyeballs so, the same happens for the OSOR.eu hosted projects trust projects under OSOR.eu umbrella are seen as more trustable than others outside business opportunity generator developement in open community, outside the «software editor» practice, could lead to new business opportunities, in new countries, with new partners and with new features

20 OSOR.eu on epractice epractice community: «Open Source Software for egovernment» An IDABC sister project of OSOR.eu. Aims to share practices and workers on IT for Public Administration (not only OSS). Complements the IDABC strategy.

21 OSOR.eu and SEMIC SEMIC.eu «Semantic Interoperability Centre, Europe» An IDABC sister project of OSOR.eu. A participatory platform and a service by the European Commission that supports the sharing of assets of semantic interoperability to be used in public administrations and egovernment. Complements the IDABC strategy.

22 Benefits of OSOR.eu Your project in OSOR.eu: registered and catalogued project linking to your site downloadable from our repository, taking advance of our big HD space and bandwidth hosting your full development cycle with our CDE Reuse software search and adopt choosing from more than 1600 applications Information from/for the public sector IDABC studies, guidelines and recommendations on OSS case studies of successful adoption news on OSS in Public Administration events in Europe Participate! use, create and support your own communities ask! suggest! fix!

23 OSOR.eu: latest services Project template Description of project Metrics Virtual forge A view of only your projects Same principles as on OSOR.eu Customisation (provide your CSS)

24 OSOR.eu Calling!! Do you own an OSS project in a public administration? Do you own an OSS project specifically developped for a public administration? Your software is closed but want to open it? We want to hear from you!! Join us to build Europe! Be part of the Information Society!

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