QualiPSo Boosting innovation and growth by fostering Open Source M. Melideo, Engineering Ing. Inf. S.p.A. 17-18/11/2009 FOSSA Conference
Jun 17, 2015
QualiPSo Boosting innovation and growth by fostering
Open Source
M. Melideo, Engineering Ing. Inf. S.p.A.
17-18/11/2009
FOSSA Conference
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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 service 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 & governements
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
– A unique alliance to help industries and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness in today’s and tomorrow’s global environment by providing the way to use trusted low-cost, flexible open source software to develop innovative and reliable information systems.
– 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
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Approach overview
INSURE
Industry
PRODUCE
Community
TRUST
Legal
Quality Interoperability
Business
Organisation Life Cycle Maturity
Factory
USE
Telco eGov Enterprise
Paris
Sao Paulo
Roma Madrid
Guangzhou
Berlin
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QualiPSo Competence Centers
• QualiPSo CCs form a Network (federative model) sharing the same ethics, methods and tools
• 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 model and be self-sustainable
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QualiPSo Factory
• Provides the base services for Competence Centers
• Opens a migration path to the QualiPSo factory • For an innovative framework
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