WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.160 So, good afternoon. I'm going to talk about building public private open source ecosystems, focusing 00:14.160 --> 00:23.080 in GFOS's effort to bring together industry academic collaboration. So, I'm Aleksandr 00:23.160 --> 00:31.000 Aleksandr, I'll leave you some of the director of GFOS. I'm also a newcomer to FOS them. GFOS is a 00:31.000 --> 00:36.520 non-for-profit organization. It was built by the majority of Greek universities and research centers, 00:37.240 --> 00:46.120 having a purpose to connect the dots within Greece's open source ecosystem. We've got holistic 00:46.200 --> 00:53.800 definition of what open source and openness is about, not only technologies, but also hardware, 00:53.800 --> 01:00.120 open data and governance. 01:04.840 --> 01:15.320 The flags can move. Anyway, let me start by giving some important context. We see strategic 01:15.400 --> 01:25.640 the strategic importance of open source technologies raising, especially with the context of digital 01:25.640 --> 01:33.960 autonomy and digital sovereignty. And this is not just plain talk. We see history happening 01:33.960 --> 01:41.960 in both sides of that landing. We see recent developments in China and in the U.S. 01:41.960 --> 01:52.440 More than a bit before, our communities need stable sources of funding. This is a big opportunity 01:52.440 --> 02:02.280 to connect the pandemic innovation with what industry needs. We've got pretty good evidence 02:03.160 --> 02:14.040 from the recent Harvard study, which says that companies and enterprises would have to spend 02:14.040 --> 02:22.440 three and a half more times if they are not using open source. But things are not good, 02:22.440 --> 02:28.200 both in the private and the public sector. In Greece, I don't know how many of you are familiar with 02:29.160 --> 02:35.720 what's happening, what we face, big challenges in both private and the public sector. In the public sector, 02:35.720 --> 02:46.200 in Greece, we see, yes, I know it. Sorry for this. 03:05.720 --> 03:14.200 So we see very low penetration of open source solutions. The decision makers and the stakeholders within 03:14.200 --> 03:21.400 the Greek public administration are very keen towards adopting private, private or solutions due 03:21.400 --> 03:29.320 to perceive lower risk. And all the procurement frameworks are very much in favor of 03:29.320 --> 03:40.040 established ventures. The situation, the private sector is not better. We see widespread adoption 03:40.040 --> 03:52.600 but opportunistic use of open source. The tragedy of common is very much in the case in Greece. 03:53.240 --> 04:00.040 There's very little or no contribution back to projects and lack of structural collaboration 04:00.040 --> 04:06.600 between stakeholders and these entails into missing innovations for collaborations. 04:06.600 --> 04:12.600 So what we are proposing, we are proposing a new collaboration framework. We open up our membership 04:12.680 --> 04:20.520 base, currently involving only research institutions and universities. So we open up with a 04:20.520 --> 04:29.320 tired corporate membership based on the revenue of its companies. We've got a special provision 04:29.320 --> 04:37.320 for startups to join us for free for two years and a balance voting system. In other 04:37.320 --> 04:48.840 notes to compromise and alter the original scope of G4s with as academic and research institutions 04:48.840 --> 04:58.600 as shareholders and we deserve two seats in the membership in the board for the private sector. 04:58.600 --> 05:04.840 So what is our value proposition to companies with which we will collaborate, they will have 05:04.840 --> 05:12.600 direct access to academic expertise. Our representatives in academic institutions have a sabbatical 05:12.600 --> 05:20.840 and why not spend this sabbatical and the R&D department of companies that will collaborate 05:20.840 --> 05:31.400 with G4s, we will assist them in policy guidance and we will have joint collaboration efforts 05:31.400 --> 05:36.840 in research projects both in European and national context. 05:41.240 --> 05:49.400 Talent development, we are very active in the context of Google summer of codes and we are very 05:49.400 --> 05:56.680 keen to design a tailored program according to specific needs of companies. It will be something 05:56.760 --> 06:06.600 like Greek summer of code. We are working with specialists in order to create specific 06:07.240 --> 06:16.280 lessons for university course work in integration and we are designing projector songs and why not 06:16.280 --> 06:26.360 let this lessons. So how all this is connected or can be connected with 06:26.360 --> 06:39.880 the EU policy landscape. I think that there is a pseudo dilemma between having as an open 06:39.960 --> 06:52.360 resource community to choose between focusing on European companies and European 06:55.800 --> 07:06.600 champions on the one hand and on the other hand sticking with the global value of the open source 07:07.480 --> 07:14.280 This is a false dilemma. We can have them both. We can strongly invest in core European 07:14.280 --> 07:22.840 open source project that consists of the common infrastructure for example post-gressual 07:23.480 --> 07:31.560 Drupal matrix next clouds among others. Of course, and create a strategy, a solid strategy 07:31.560 --> 07:38.440 at both the national and local and European level for digital public goods with dedicated 07:38.440 --> 07:48.920 if you are fighting. So we can combine the merits of both worlds. Of course, a radical procurement 07:49.000 --> 08:00.520 reform, open by default, a procurement for public, software and why not have my data re why not 08:00.520 --> 08:09.320 mandate my data re open source alternatives evaluation. Let's don't stick on the defensive 08:09.400 --> 08:20.040 and get an offensive. Why not raise the ambition of our community and preference for local 08:20.040 --> 08:31.240 open source vendors service provider. We will try and create a small ecosystem of vendors of 08:31.240 --> 08:38.680 SMEs, of which SMEs that can cooperate with the European counterpart and become 08:39.720 --> 08:49.400 at a small scale at the beginning open source vendors. Thank you very much and I'm open for any questions. 08:55.400 --> 08:58.840 Thank you very much Alexander. I think we will take one question and then we have to wrap up and 08:58.920 --> 09:05.640 get through the next panel, but to the next speaker. If I can already ask Florian Borvac and 09:05.720 --> 09:13.800 Fredrik is deviant and move up on stage and then I'm not sure who had their end up first. 09:13.800 --> 09:40.280 Yes, we are at an informal consultation right now at the stage of an internal informal 09:41.240 --> 09:48.600 we will open up the consultation but we have good prospects. Let's see what happens. 09:53.560 --> 09:56.600 Thank you very much.