QualiPSoBoosting innovation and growth by fostering

Open Source

Matteo Melideo, Engineering S.p.A.

28th Oct. 2010

IPA Forum 2010 - Tokio

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Open Source in the economy

• Economies are evolving from product orientation to service orientation

• Open Source is a chance for industries to foster growth and increase competitiveness

• Open Source is one of the top IT issues by Gartner• Open Source as the engine of the Service Economy

– For the service providers to keep the services cost as lower as possible

– For the service consumer (citizens) to have more competition– For the Software Industry to have more resources for innovation– For Public Administration to release resources to boost and

support local employment

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The open source paradox

A chance for enterprises & governments

A chance for IT industries in Europe & emerging countries

Legal issues? Business models? Interoperability? Know how? Quality? Maturity? Industrialization? Support?

Large perspectives… … but still uncertainties

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QualiPSo Project

– It is a unique global alliance that facilitates the use of trusted low-cost, flexible open source software within industries and governments, fuelling innovation and competitiveness.

– The largest open Source project funded by the European Commission under its sixth framework program (FP6), as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) initiative

– 18 founding members, across Europe, Brazil and China

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The mission

It is all about TRUST!Trust cannot be claimed without being

proved!!!

To define and implement technologies, procedures and policies to leverage the Open Source Software development current practices

to sound, well recognized and established industrial operations.

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The challenges

• Dismiss the popular myths against OSS that prevent the industrial commitment

• Prove the quality of the OSS for the industry

From rebellion TO industrial practices keeping the freshness and enthusiasm of OSS

tradition

Approach overview

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Procedures

Industry

Technologies

CommunityLegal

QualityInteroperability

Business

OrganisationLife Cycle Maturity

Factory

Policies

TelcoeGov Enterprise

Tokio

Sao Paulo

RomaMadrid

Guangzhou

Berlin

...

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QualiPSo Competence Centers

• QualiPSo CCs form a Network (federative model) sharing the same ethics, methods and tools

– Factory Services; Labelling Services; Consultancy Services; Education and Training Services

• Act locally and cooperate globally• Provide expertise and a common

set of services to Open Source users, producers or consumers on a variety of topics related to quality

• Each CC has its own legal & business model and is self-sustainable

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Competence Centres: what's new...

• A common set of services based on the QualiPSo results– Factory Services; Labelling Services; Consultancy Services; Education and Training

Services• A Network of Competence Centres

– Interconnecting Industry, Academia, P.A., Community• Needed by Industry• Direct inputs from P.A.• Support of Communities

– Federation vs. Centralised Organisation– Act locally and cooperate globally

• Dealing with Diversity– Different Legal frameworks

• Consortium, Company, Cooperative, Association, etc.– Different Business Models

• For profit or not for profit– Different Access to market

• Generalist or specialised to specific market e.g. P.A., education, healthcare, etc.

• To provide expertise and services to FLOSS users – Services, tools and methods on topics from legal advice to benchmarks

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VISIT AND CONTACT US!www.qualipso.org

• Project Acronym: QualiPSo• Project Title: Quality Platform for Open Source Software• Project instrument: Integrated Project• Contract Number: 034763• Consortium: 18 organisations from 9 countries (3

continents) • Thematic area: Open development Platforms for

software and services • Duration: 48 months (important results from every year)• Budget: 17.3 MEuro (Funding 10.4 MEuro)