09:00 - Open Source Governance: what's hot?

Duration: 60 minutes

Speakers: Bruno Cornec (Linux Distinguished Technologist, HP) / Richard Fontana (Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, Hewlett-Packard) / Hugo Roy (Board member, FSFE) / Mike Milinkovich (Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation) / Benjamin Jean (CEO, Inno3)

The goal of this round table is to share the latest news in the area of Open Source Governance. Topics covered will include:

• Status on SPDX, LSB
• licenses (e.g: analysis, new comers, usage example)
• tools (e.g: license analysis, software evaluation, reference web sites),
• best governance practices (e.g: customer return of experience, distribution adoption of tags, portability)

Audience is made of everybody in charge of stuying the introduction of best industry practices on Open Source management in their organization, companies looking for license adoption, developers wanting to improve their understanding of legal aspects on their work, users looking for tools suited to help them dealing with license.

By sharing industry best practices coming from experienced representatives, this round table aims at improving licenses understanding by the Open Source community, and the knowledge of the various tools and standards that can be used today to strengthen an Open Source Policy.

10:00 - Fixing "the biggest lie on the web"

Duration: 30 minutes

Speakers: Hugo Roy (Board member, FSFE)

Terms of service and privacy policies govern our rights online. Unfortunately, they are often overlooked: most users of online services will “agree to the terms and conditions” without reading them. In this talk, we will see the reasons why terms of service are currently broken and how they can subjugate users into giving up their rights, with a proposal to fix this problem.

11:00 - legal aspects of cloud

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers: Philippe Laurent (Lawyer, MVVP) / Michel Jaccard (Founder, Id est avocats) / Olivier Iteanu (Founder, SELARL Iteanu Avocats) / Allison Randal

It is no secret that the Cloud raises important legal issues, which we would like to explore from a FOSS perspective during this round table. Amongst others, the following questions will be discussed:

• What are the key issues as regards the data protection rules and their application to cloud services? Does the fact that cloud services are based on free/open source technology have an influence as regards privacy compliance?
• “Privacy by design” is a new data protection law tendency, which could soon become a standard after the adoption of the awaited new EU regulation, and which implies to take privacy into consideration throughout the engineering process. How free/open source development would fit in such context?
• The property, security, accessibility, reversibility… of data are key concerns in a Cloud framework. How are they dealt with within the “traditional” cloud contacts? Is the free/open source characteristic an argument or an element that is taken into consideration when drafting cloud contracts?
• Cloud computing is switching the software distribution paradigms and the corresponding licensing practices as well. How does it influence Software IP (contracting and enforcement)? How does it influence FOSS licensing?

11:40 - Procurement of open source

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers: Gijs Hillenius / Bjorn Lundell (Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Skovde)

Björn Lundell and Gijs Hillenius will elaborate insights on how to use standards in public procurement and how to avoid lock-in when building open ICT systems. They will share examples of good and bad practices about ICT procurement, and specifically elaborate on how open standards could help avoid lock-in situations.