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OSOR.EU - the site devoted to the re-use, sharing and collaborative development of eGovernment applications for European public administrations - has been officially launched at the Open Source World Conference in Malaga, Spain, on 20 October 2008.
Mr. Francisco García Morán, the Director General for Informatics of the European Commission, highlighted in his keynote presentation that the OSOR.EU platform is only one, albeit very important result of a long process led by the IDABC programme of the European Commission.
Through various programmes and projects, the European Commission has been providing the basic foundations and structure of an Open Source ecosystem to support public administrations in their usage of Open Source Software (OSS). The Commission provides key elements, such as legal basis (EUPL licence) and a site devoted to sharing and collaborative development of OSS, as well as an open and flexible platform to be used by public administrations around Europe (OSOR.EU).
Mr. Morán stressed that while the Commission can provide the infrastructure, it needs all the help from the Communities to make the dream of the newborn OSOR.EU come true. OSOR.EU needs the contributions of the OSS community to be fed with projects.
OSOR also had the pleasure to have Ms. Ana Mejías Lopez – the Director General of Innovation and Public Administration of the Junte de Anadalucia – as keynote speaker.
A draft version of the OSOR Guidelines on public procurement and OSS was presented by Mr. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh and discussed during the event. The related study is open for feedback from the public until 5 November 2008.
The event also included the presentation of a number of success stories hosted by the OSOR.EU platform, as well as a presentation about Qualipso, a research project led by the Directorate-General Information and Media of the European Commission.
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