Preliminary agenda

Day 1 - Wednesday April 26, 2006
09:00 - 09:10

Welcome
Javier Velasco Mancebo
Government of Asturias, Spain

09:10 - 09:30

Presentation of FLOSSWorld
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, FLOSS leader, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands

09:30– 11:00

EU presentation Open Source Issues
Jesus Villasante

EU collaboration Unit
Thierry Devars, INCO

EU floss case study
Ignacio Sánchez Amor Vice-President of the Government of Extremadura, Spain

Questions / feedback

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15

Session 1: East Asia Regional Workshop results
Maoke Chen, China Education Research Network/Tsinghua University Beijing, China

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Discussion / feedback / recommendations

12:15-13:45

Lunch

13:45-14:45

Session 2: Southern Asia Regional Workshop results
Dr M. Sasikumar, R&D In-Charge (Mumbai)
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India

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Discussion / feedback / recommendations

14:45-15:45

Session 3: South Eastern Europe Regional Workshop results
Julia Velkova and Dragoslava Pefeva, Technical FLOSS Coordinators, Internet Society Bulgaria, Bulgaria

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Discussion / feedback / recommendations

15:45-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Session 4: Africa Regional Workshop results
Kim Tucker, OpenMentor Leader, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

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Discussion / feedback / recommendations

 

Day 2 - Thursday, April 27, 2006

09:30 - 10:30

Session 5: Latin America Regional Workshop results
NorbetoTorrera, Director USUARIA, Argentina

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Discussion / feedback / recommendations

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 11:00

Expert talk on human capacity building / skills development in open source developer communities
Martin Michlmay

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11:00 - 12:15

Discussion, comments and experience sharing with Experts on the FLOSSWorld Track 1 Discussion Questions (Human capacity building)

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:00

Expert talk on inter-regional differences in software projects
Javier Solá, Co-director WordForge project, Coordinator Khmer Software Initiative and FOSS localisation tools

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14:00 - 15:15

Discussion, comments and experience sharing with Experts on the FLOSSWorld Track 2 Discussion Questions (inter-regional differences in software projects)

15:15 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 15:45

Expert talk on government usage/attitudes to open source and open standards / interoperability
Ruediger Glott and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Patterns of FLOSS adoption in European local governments

15:45 - 16:00

Discussion, comments and experience sharing with Experts on the FLOSSWorld Track 3 Discussion Questions (government and FLOSS)

16:00 - 17:00

Round table discussion on FLOSSWorld and international collaboration in the area of FLOSS (Partners, external collaborators and observers)

17:00 - 17:15

Conclusions & Close of the meeting

 

Day 3 - Friday, April 28, 2006

Closed meeting for FLOSSWorld project partners

09:00 - 12:00

- Mangement Issues
- Financial Issues
- Activity management assessment
- All cognate activities and issues

12:00 - 13:00

- Issues / concerns regarding procedures
- Direct communication between non-EU partners and EC project officer

 

List of participants from FLOSSWorld Partners

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Coordinator
UNU-MERIT, NL

EJ Helsper
Researcher
University of Oxford , UK

Luis Casas
Managing Director
FUNDECYT, Government of Extremadura, ES

Gregorio Robles
Researcher
University of Rey Juan Carlos , ES

Norberto Torrera
Director USUARIA, Argentina

Federico Heinz
Director
Fundación Vía Libre, Argentina

Ivana Fastic-Pajk
CARNET, Croatia

Tomislav Medak
Director
Multimedia Institute MI2, Croatia

Julia Velkova
Technical FLOSS Coordinator
Internet Society Bulgaria , Bulgaria

Kim Tucker
OpenMentor Leader
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research , South Africa

Enver Ravat
Researcher
University of Western Cape , South Africa

Maoke Chen
China Education Research Network , China

Wenjun Shi
China Standard Software, Co., Ltd. China

S. Sasikumar, R&D In-Charge (Mumbai)
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India

Hans Liesenberg
Coordinator Information Advisory Commission
University of Campinas , Brasil

Renato da Silveira Martini
President
National Institute of Information Technolgy, Brasil

N.N.
MIMOS, Malaysia

Carlos González Calderón
FLOSS Specialist
Government of Catalon
ia , Spain