Open Source at the European Commission
summary
European Commission publishes an Open Source Strategy (Oct 2020) with a 10‑point action plan and spins up an OSPO to promote and guide reuse, representation and governance. It makes inner source as default after finding only 10 visible repos out of 1,500 projects in its Git infrastructure, drops onerous “commission decision” paperwork while keeping IP checks, and creates Innovation Labs to test candidates for the app store. EU outreach includes an ISA² study on funding, an inventory of public OSS, back‑bounties for Moodle Element Simbra and two hackathons.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Open Source Strategy
- 2:16Action Plan
- 2:34Open Source Program Office
- 3:10Mission
- 3:55Inner Source as Default
- 5:58Internal Open Source
- 7:10Commission Decision
- 9:04Open Source Innovation Labs
- 10:37Open Source Funding
- 13:12European Open Source Inventory
- 15:08Back Bounty
- 16:08Hackathons
- 18:45Questions
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