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Okay, now it's a five-plus-one. Welcome everyone to this

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deaf room. Open source. You policy something. You know the

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table better than I do. My name is Sebastian

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Wrightle. I am the director of EU Government Affairs for

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Appell and together with my colleagues, I am

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organizing this deaf room. Very happy that you all came.

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We're going to start with the presentation open source as a

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cultural movement by Stefano. You can look up probably the

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rest of the schedule, but I just want to give you a couple of

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words of not wisdom probably, but of what motivated

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this block in this deaf room. So a lot of people ask

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the question of how do we increase or improve

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Europe's competitiveness in the world? And I just thought that

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at first maybe it would be important to mention for the more

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technical minded. So I used to work in policy in the European

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Parliament for 10 years until the last summer. I'm a

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computer scientist. I used to go to these conferences to look

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at technical talks. And I think it's important for the

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more technically minded to understand that when we talk about

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competitiveness, it's not only about creating jobs and all

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of that. That is behind it, but it is about connecting with

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the narratives that we talk about in politics and that we

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need to motivate interest for open source in policy

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making and in that field. So yeah, in order for us to be

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understood and for the idea to be understood why open

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source is so important. We need to connect to these narratives

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that the politicians speak and this session is about that.

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We do understand that technology is built on the basis of open

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source, but that's something that we have to keep telling

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that the politicians and policymakers over and over again,

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because that is something that you don't understand if you're not

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very technical. Remember the XKCD picture with the

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blocks that make up a project or that make up our

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infrastructure and with sometimes the individual

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matches that hold up entire parts or the entire structure.

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So getting that idea into the minds of politicians is

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what we hear about. Not a lot of people know that

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technology is built that way and that in particular open

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source is the reason that all of our infrastructure keeps

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running. So that's what we're trying to explain.

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And one narrative that currently is around and that you've

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probably heard of is that of the euro stack. It's also been

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talked about in some of the previous talks.

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So yeah, let's connect to the narratives in policy

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making and in politics through the narratives that they

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understand. Even though we want to achieve something for open

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source here, we want to achieve something for society and

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seeing as I work for a business association, we want to

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achieve something for European businesses as well.

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Because that's after all the opportunity that we have not

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only implement the cool technology that we want to

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implement but also to create wealth and then

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income for people not only from this community but to

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also try to include more people to that overall

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wealth. So yeah, I think those were my introductory words.

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I will be around here all day long, probably. Let me know

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if you have any questions. And with that, I will hand over to

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Stefano. Thank you.

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Thank you.