Open IT – Best practices to make it happen

Description

We will hear examples, to-do’s and NOT to do’s when creating and deploying open source in real life situation. We’ll also cover current threats to general purpose computing and talk about the importance of software freedom.

All watched over by machines of loving grace?

Karsten Gerloff, President, Free Software Foundation Europe

Computers are woven into the fabric of our daily lives. They are the machines we use to create knowledge, they let us talk and write to each other, they are the cars, trains and planes that we use to move around. Computers are so tremendously useful because they are general purpose machines. We routinely use them to create and do things that the people who built them never dreamed of. Yet we are in the middle of an intense battle for control of these computers. Corporations are busy turning general purpose computers into mere shopping devices. Instead of choosing our destiny, we only get to choose our masters. It doesn’t have to be this way. Are we heading for a world of corporate surveillance, where our choices will be bought and sold? Or are we going to create a world where we live in freedom and take charge of our lives?

How NOT to do open source – community manager’s view

Jarkko Moilanen, Community Enabler, OSSOIL

The public interface of the National Digital Library

Aki Lassila, Head of Development, National Library of Finland

A case study on how OSS based project thrives on agile style development and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach where previous commercial software based project failed.

Bios

Karsten Gerloff, President, Free Software Foundation Europe

Karsten Gerloff is the President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. FSFE’s mission as an independent not-for-profit organisation is promoting freedom in the information society through Free Software. Gerloff leads FSFE’s participation in community and policy processes at the European and global level, and is a frequent speaker at a wide variety of conferences and events. Karsten Gerloff has conducted extensive research on the economic and social effects of Free Software for the European Commission and other clients, and has led the development of training materials for Free Software entrepreneurs in Southern and Eastern Africa. http://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.en.html

Jarkko Moilanen, Community Enabler, OSSOIL & Founder/CTO, Want3D

Jarkko Moilanen is co-founder and CTO of Want3D Ltd. Want3D is a leading 3D printing service provider in Finland and a trusted partner in 3D printing and rapid prototyping training and coaching. Jarkko has a Master’s degree in political science from the University of  Tampere. Master’s thesis was interdisciplinary combining political and computer science, and discussed different forms of hacktivism and nature of political hackerdom. In 2010 he started as grad student in the same university. PhD research will address emerging trends and practices in peer production and hacker culture. http://want3d.fi

Session Host

Ilkka Lehtinen, Managing Director, COSS ry - The Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions

Ilkka has over 20 years experience on IT industry. Serving on public sector, being entrepreneur, serving on public company and smaller business. IT-services, development, deployment and sales has been his career. From late 90′s Ilkka has been a strong believer on open source and its phenomena. That is why he really enjoys his watchtower position on European open source business.