SFScon18 - Alexander Sander - EU Policy workshop

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In this Workshop you will learn how the European Union works. You will get an insight into EU politics, the so called Brussels bubble, where EU legislative proposals come from and how they will be handled. To make it more tangible we will use the current Copyright Reform Package and its impact on Free software as an example.

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SFScon18 - Alexander Sander - EU Policy workshop

The document discusses data migration and cleaning using human inference technology. It notes that traditional data migration tools have limitations and cannot interpret data. Human inference technology leverages the power of knowledge to clean and standardize data during migration. Examples are provided of how human inference can identify incorrect addresses, standardize capitalization, and resolve other data quality issues. The consequences of not properly cleaning data during migration are also listed.

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The document discusses the economic agglomeration and clustering of knowledge workers, universities, and innovative companies in the Frankfurt-Rhine-Main region of Germany, specifically Frankfurt, Mannheim, and Stuttgart. It notes that Frankfurt focuses on finance and commerce, Mannheim on production, and Stuttgart on engineering. The region benefits from the clustering of industries, universities, and opportunities that drive innovation and economic growth. Close proximity and collaboration between organizations in the Frankfurt-Rhine-Neckar-Stuttgart region have created a strong innovative environment and economy.

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This document discusses Eurostars, a European program that funds collaborative research projects led by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It notes that Tekes, a Finnish public funding agency, supports Finnish organizations that participate in Eurostars and other joint European programs. Eurostars projects typically involve 2-3 countries and 3-4 participants, last around 29 months, and have average costs of 1.4 million Euros. To be eligible for Finnish funding, projects must demonstrate qualities like competence, passion, international competitiveness, and strong teamwork between participating organizations in Finland and abroad.

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The document provides a list of over 30 links to online educational resources for teaching mathematics and numeracy skills. Many of the links are to the BBC schools and bitesize websites, Topmarks, and ICT games, all of which provide interactive games and activities related to numbers, counting, place value, and basic math skills. The document recommends downloading the iWisoft Flash program to access some of the material.

SFSCON23 - Rufai Omowunmi Balogun - SMODEX – a Python package for understandi...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

The complexity of agricultural droughts requires a consistent, reliable, and systematic method for monitoring and reporting. Amongst the various indices used to monitor this phenomenon, the soil moisture anomaly has been proven to be a more reliable predictor. However, the datasets required for computing this index are often large and computationally demanding. To address this challenge, we have developed SMODEX, a Python package that enables scalable, fast, and open-source standard-compliant computation and visualization of soil moisture anomalies. SMODEX simplifies the computation and visualization of time-series for soil moisture and soil moisture anomalies from high-dimensional climate datasets. It allows for quick and easy parallelization of the computation on a daily, weekly, and monthly timescale. Additionally, SMODEX implements a straightforward workflow for automating the use of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles in producing and sharing outputs by leveraging the open source STAC API. The package is extendible and provides information on how to contribute to the project, test suites, test coverage, and a use case for the South Tyrol region, all provided in the package repository. In the future, additional agricultural drought indices and indicators would be included to serve to even larger community of researchers, policy makers, and individual users.

SFSCON23 - Roberto Innocenti - From the design to reality is here the Communi...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

The Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook designed around GNU/Linux will be showed at NOI Techpark. We had presented here its motherboard design in 2018. We will updates regarding last developments for u-boot AMD video drivers, re-design of heat pipes, and CE test certification process. We will give future availability milestones of this notebook and details regarding the GNU/Linux distributions or other OS that could runs on it.

SFSCON23 - Martin Rabanser - Real-time aeroplane tracking and the Open Data Hub

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

RMBtec proposes using the Open Data Hub as the real-time data backbone for a start-up creating an aircraft tracking application. The Open Data Hub offers data providers visibility, infrastructure to publish data, documentation, analytics and support. It describes how aircraft position data captured by sensors could be preprocessed and sent to the Open Data Hub via MQTT, then streamed in real-time and stored in a data mart via transformers. The Open Data Hub provides an alternative to cloud services and has capabilities that could support publishing and consuming aircraft tracking data.

The transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 has fueled the need for a secure and decentralized cloud storage solution for digital assets. Web 2.0 was characterized by centralized platforms where user data was under the control of companies. In contrast, Web 3.0 aims to empower individuals and foster a decentralized web that supports and benefits the Free Software and Open Data Communities. Blockchain technologies facilitate seamless collaboration and interoperability among diverse stakeholders in the Free Software and Open Data communities. Developers can establish open and transparent ecosystems where data can be shared, verified, and integrated across multiple platforms. Beez, with its own blockchain infrastructure, offers a secure and transparent platform for digital asset exchanges, bolstering transaction integrity and trust. By distributing data across a network of nodes, Beez ensures security and mitigates the risk of single points of failure. Users retain control over their data, safeguard their privacy, and can take advantage of the incentive mechanisms offered by blockchain networks. During our presentation, we will explore the role of AI within Beez's ecosystem, facilitating accelerated data processing, correlation, and intelligent automation. AI unlocks valuable insights from blockchain data, and we will touch upon the use of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to enhance programming performance. The integration of Blockchain and AI technologies holds great potential for advancing the safety and efficiency of the Open Data ecosystem. By combining decentralized data storage, trust-building mechanisms, and intelligent data processing, Beez is paving the way for a more secure, transparent, and user-centric digital landscape.

SFSCON23 - Lucas Lasota - The Future of Connectivity, Open Internet and Human...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

We are becoming more and more dependent on the Internet for our work, education, communication, personal relations and entertainment. Our digital devices conquered an unprecedented level of importance in our life. However, we are facing a loss of control over our smartphones, tablets and other devices for internet connection. It's time to resolve monopolies and re-establish democratic control over the technology we most depend upon. This talk will present the challenges end-users are facing to get more control over their devices and how Free Software is key for a consumer re-empowerement. The talk will present real-life examples of policy demands against gatekeepers on digital markets, such as the struggle for Router Freedom in the last years and how Device Neutrality can serve as an important instrument for pushing forward end-user-oriented digital policies.

SFSCON23 - Giovanni Giannotta - Intelligent Decision Support System for trace...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

MOSH and MOAH are the abbreviation of two groups of chemical compounds found in mineral oils. “MOSH” stands for Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons. MOAH stands for Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Both of them are under European deeply evaluation because there are two food contaminants. According to the current state of scientific knowledge, there is no sufficient toxicological evidence to prove a health risk to humans from saturated mineral oil fractions (MOSH). Meanwhile, MOAH are suspected to be carcinogenic (especially PAH-like compounds with 3-7 ring systems), therefore their levels in food should be reduced according to the ALARA-principle (as low as reasonably achievable). Gruppo FOS with CNR ( MOSH and MOAH are the abbreviation of two groups of chemical compounds found in mineral oils. “MOSH” stands for Mineral Oil Saturated Hydrocarbons. MOAH stands for Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Both of them are under European deeply evaluation because there are two food contaminants. According to the current state of scientific knowledge, there is no sufficient toxicological evidence to prove a health risk to humans from saturated mineral oil fractions (MOSH). Meanwhile, MOAH are suspected to be carcinogenic (especially PAH-like compounds with 3-7 ring systems), therefore their levels in food should be reduced according to the ALARA-principle (as low as reasonably achievable). Gruppo FOS with CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Santagata 1907 and Enginius are searching the system for finding and trace their presence in the virgin and extra virgin olive oils by using open fingerprints methods, open hardware and open source blockchain and AI technologies.

SFSCON23 - Elena Maines - Embracing CI/CD workflows for building ETL pipelines

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

Up-to date measurements of surface meteorological variables are essential to monitor weather conditions, their spatio-temporal variability and the potential effects on a wide range of sectors and applications. Moreover, when included in continuous records of long historical observations spanning several decades, they become essential for assessing long-term climate variability and change locally and on a regional level. Automated pipelines capable of retrieving and processing near-real time meteorological data satisfy the primary prerequisites towards the development and advancement of effective and operational climate services. With a public and operational near real-time monitoring web platform in mind, we present automated pipelines to collect and process up-to-date daily temperature and precipitation records for Trentino South Tyrol (Italy) and surrounding areas, and to derive their spatially interpolated fields at sub-km scale. Our pipelines are composed by multiple steps including data download, sanity checks, reconstruction of missing daily records, integration into the historical archive, spatial interpolation and publication onto online FAIR catalogues as (openEO) “datacubes”. The different APIs, data formats and structure across the various data sources, and the need to merge the data onto harmonized meteorological layers, make this a typical case of the so-called Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) pipelines, and, in order to follow the principles of data reproducibility and Open Science, we embraced open-source automated workflow management through GitLab’s Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities. CI/CD workflows greatly help the management of the relatively complex graphs of tasks required for our climate application, ensuring seamless orchestration with thorough flow monitoring, application logs, transactions rollbacks, and exception handling in general. Native pipeline-oriented software development also fosters a clean separation of roles among the tasks, and a more modular architecture. This effectively reduces barriers to collaborative development and paves the way for robust operational climate services for researchers and decision makers in the face of the changing climate.

SFSCON23 - Christian Busse - Free Software and Open Science

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

The Open Science movement aims to increase the transparency, reproducibility and inclusiveness of academic research. One of its central goals is therefore to make research outputs broadly available, e.g., manuscripts (Open Access) or research data (Open Data). While software/code created in the course of scientific research is a key artifact of scientific research that is clear distinct from the latter two, it has until recently not received the same attention as manuscripts or data, although it follows its own set of paradigms. In this talk I will present an overview on how the core concepts of Free Software and the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reuseable) Principles intersect, what this means for managing code as research output and recent initiatives on the European level that will provide support for these issues.

SFSCON23 - Charles H. Schulz - Why open digital infrastructure matters

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

Software freedom can be defined in many ways but in legal terms it is squarely defined by a set of approved FSF and OSI software licenses. Yet everyone realizes that beyond these licenses the goal of software freedom and digital sovereignty cannot be achieved without the ability to master and create hardware components and systems - and beyond that, to rely on open digital infrastructure (servers, datacenters, and resources) . This talk will present the challenges around these topics and what we, collectively in Europe already do and can do to ensure our independence and our freedoms.

SFSCON23 - Andrea Vianello - Achieving FAIRness with EDP-portal

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

This document discusses efforts to make environmental data from the Environmental Data Platform (EDP) more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) compliant. It describes the components of EDP including data repositories, a metadata catalog, web portal, and tools. It outlines work done to improve metadata quality for humans and interoperability for machines through signposting. This includes adding DOIs, citations, and linked data/linkset JSON files. The document emphasizes that maintaining high quality metadata requires significant ongoing effort.

SFSCON23 - Thomas Aichner - How IoT and AI are revolutionizing Mass Customiza...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

The document discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are revolutionizing mass customization. Traditional mass customization allows customers to customize products online through selection of options. AI enables more intuitive customization by learning customer preferences and offering dynamic, individual recommendations. IoT connects devices to customize the usage experience based on a person's context and needs. The integration of these technologies has the potential to transform mass customization by enabling mood-based and natural language processing for customization as well as products designed through AI with minimal user input.

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SFSCON23 - Mirko Boehm - European regulators cast their eyes on maturing OSS ...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

As open source software becomes the foundation to build digital products, to run the backbones of ICT infrastructure and to ensure digital sovereignty and cyber resilience, both the technology as well as the communities that develop it inevitably move into the focus of regulators. The European Union is advancing a number of policy initiatives that regulate liability, cyber security, data handling and AI applications in digital products, among others. This is a challenge for the still quite decentralised and globally operating open source community. How could the open source community participate in legislative processes, and what may be the potential impacts of the upcoming regulation on the open source development process and community dynamics?

SFSCON23 - Marco Pavanelli - Monitoring the fleet of Sasa with free software

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

SFSCON23 - Marco Cortella - KNOWAGE and AICS for 2030 agenda SDG goals monito...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

AICS is the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation that started operating in 2016 with the ambition of aligning Italy with the main European and international partners in the commitment to development. KNOWAGE Labs are developing for AICS a platform that is probably unique in the world and will allow both the Agency and the public to access all the major indicators on the UN Sustainable Development Goals provided by international sources (World Bank, WTO, ILO..) and easily compare them. The solution will allow analysis to start from 3 different touch points: the infographic of SDG goals, the advanced search criteria, and the virtual assistant. Then, a customized dashboard will be provided to the user, allowing to further expand the analysis by interacting with charts, maps, tables, etc. This talk will show the state of art of the solution, highlighting objectives and expected results of the project, but also the new developments of KNOWAGE related to AI.

SFSCON23 - Lina Ceballos - Interoperable Europe Act - A real game changer

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

Interoperability is a core element of the ongoing digitalisation of Europe. With the Interoperable Europe Act, the EU is aiming to create a dedicated legal framework for interoperability and to enhance cross-border digital public services across the European Union. This talk will give an overview of the state of play of this proposed regulation in the ongoing EU legislative process, some of its flaws, and the important role that Free Software and its community can play in it.

SFSCON23 - Johannes Näder Linus Sehn - Let’s monitor implementation of Free S...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

How to sharpen the demand for public code across Europe and monitor progress with TEDective For six years, the Free Software Foundation Europe has been calling with a broad alliance for publicly funded software to be published as Free Software. This initiative has become a great success: Our demand "Public Money? Public Code!" has found its way into government strategy papers, party programs, as well as coalition treaties, and is being discussed in public administrations across Europe. At the same time, we see less progress than expected and vendor lock ins remain a crucial issue. Digital sovereignty is redefined bypassing Free Software. There is openwashing in publicly funded companies, and government projects in favour of Free Software remain empty words. Public statistics on the procurement of Free Software are largely unavailable. It is therefore no longer enough to promote the idea of "Public Money? Public Code!". We as the Free Software community should be even more vigilant than before – continuing to praise small steps in the right direction, but pointing out and criticising omissions and lack of implementation. We should become more like watchdogs. In the talk we will look at some examples of lack of implementation of Free Software policies. We will discuss how we, as civil society, can identify such shortcomings and how to deal with them. We will present our initiative TEDective – a free-software solution that makes European public procurement data explorable for non-experts, aiming to provide you with a powerful tool to keep an eye on real progress towards "Public Money? Public Code!" across Europe.

SFSCON23 - Gabriel Ku Wei Bin - Why Do We Need A Next Generation Internet

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

The Internet today forms the backbone of the digitisation of our society and economy. As connectivity increases, the boundaries between the real and digital world get increasingly blurred. However, there has been an erosion of trust in the Internet following revelations about the exploitation of personal data, large-scale cybersecurity and data breaches, and growing awareness of the proliferation and impacts of online disinformation. What can be done to improve the Internet as a platform for future generations? What initiatives are currently in place to build key technological blocks of an Internet that supports human-centric values, such as privacy, security, and inclusion, while reflecting the values and norms all citizens should enjoy in Europe? This talk will explore why the current state of the internet must be re-imagined and re-engineered in order to support healthy societies, the existing European Commission initiative to work towards doing so, and the role of Free Software in accomplishing these goals.

SFSCON23 - Edoardo Scepi - The Brand-New Version of IGis Maps

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

2023 saw the launch, after a long and well-structured revision and development process, all based on a fruitful collaboration between several departments of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, most of the township in South Tyrol, Informatica Alto Adige (SIAG - Technical partner) and the Consortium of Municipalities of the Province of Bolzano, of the new version of the integrated geographic data management system IGis Maps. In use for years in South Tyrol, has in the Consortium one of its most enthusiastic contributors and supporters. The very first version was released about eight years ago and its implementation was based on the idea of creating a multi-purpose GIS management system that could support different types of users, that was highly customizable, and, above all, that could be widely shared among the various management entities, both public and private, present within our territory. After years of use and ad-hoc developments, we can finally present the new version of the IGis Maps system, which incorporates all the technical and technological improvements we realized the system needed. It was not just a major update together with new functionalities combined inside the previous software structure, but a true re-engineering that led, among other things, to a new and more efficient user interface, a major advancement regarding the internal security, an optimization and improvement of the entire editing section as well as an optimization of the section regarding the automatic geo-processes. A mobile version is currently under development to better support any field activities, for which a very powerful option will be included, the possibility of creating special work sessions in off-line mode so as to be able to operate even in areas without a proper cellular line network coverage. Other very important peculiarities concern that the system is developed using a totally free software code and infrastructure, that a detailed documentation has been produced to ensure sustainability to any further future evolution, even in case of technical partner turnover, and finally, that by taking advantage of the high standards and levels of security access can be guaranteed to any type of user. From professional users, through dedicated access and qualifications or, using the ordinary SPID, to the private citizen. We will show examples of how different types of users and stakeholders now permanently use the system for the management of a variety of tasks related to their activities, and how it was possible to customize IGis Maps to create visualization and data management contexts that best meet their needs. We will also present a related project concerning the updating and the correction of the new technical basal cartography, built upon the new Basic Core specification, achieved through the automatic conversion implemented by the SIAG team starting from the previous National Core cartography. With the new IGis Maps it was possible to create an a

SFSCON23 - Davide Vernassa - Empowering Insights Unveiling the latest innova...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

KNOWAGE is the open source analytics and business intelligence suite made in Italy. KNOWAGE aims to provide company and organizations with analytical capabilities to exploit data to increase their efficiency and sustainability. Also thanks to the open source community support, the suite is constantly evolving combining the reliability of the most popular business intelligence solutions with the security and the transparency guaranteed by open source. This talk will show the last year advancements and new features towards a more mobile, accessible and user-friendly product, focusing on the newly rewritten dashboarding tool.

SFSCON23 - Alexander Sander - Free Software and AI in Europe

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

In this talk, I will present the latest developments in EU legislation and activities on AI and what role Free Software plays in this. The European Union's AI Act is the first comprehensive set of regulations for the artificial intelligence. Also Free Software plays a role in this regulation. I will shed light on the upcoming rules and evaluate what this means for Free Software, AI but also other upcoming regulations.

SFSCON23 - Ranindya Paramitha - Technical leverage analysis in the Python eco...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

[Context:] Technical leverage is the ratio between dependencies (other people's code) and own codes of a software package. It has been shown to be useful to characterize the Java ecosystem and there are also studies on the NPM ecosystem available. [Objective:] By using this metric we aim to analyze the Python ecosystem, how it evolves, and how secure it is, as a developer would perceive it when deciding to adopt or update (or not) a library. [Method:] We collect a dataset of the top 600 Python packages (corresponding to 21,205 versions) and used a number of innovative approaches for its analysis including the use of a two-part statistical model to deal with excess zeros, a mathematical closed formulation to estimate vulnerabilities that we confirm with bootstrapping on the actual dataset. [Results:] Small Python package versions have a median technical leverage of 6.9x their own code, while bigger package versions rely on dependencies code a tenth of their own (median leverage of 0.1). In terms of evolution, Python packages tend to have stable technical leverage through their evolution (once highly leveraged, always leveraged). On security, the chance of getting a safe package version when choosing a package is actually better than previous research has shown based on the ratio of safe package versions in the ecosystem. [Conclusions:] Python packages ship a lot of other people's code and tend to keep doing so. However, developers will have a good chance to choose a safe package version.

SFSCON23 - Jorge Melegati Moritz Mock Barbara Russo - Recommending security f...

South Tyrol Free Software Conference

Technical debt is a metaphor that describes not-quite-right code introduced for short-term needs. The effort to refactor it increases if it remains for a long in the software. When developers are aware of it and admit it in source code comments, the debt is called Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD). Thus, SATD indicates weak code that developers are aware of. The question is whether they are aware that this code may be vulnerable to attacks. This presentation will illustrate how artificial intelligence can be employed to recommend security fixes for vulnerabilities to developers.

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CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on Blockchain

Claudio Di Ciccio

Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus. Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16

Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptx

SitimaJohn

Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.