Track | the Future of Open Source Business Gijs Hillenius (Project Manager) & Miguel Diez Blanco (Project Lead), Open Source Programme Office, European Commission Mindtrek Conference 15th of November 2022. Tampere, Finland www.mindtrek.org

1. The European Commission’s open
source journey
what we do, internally and externally
Mindtrek 2022
European Commission Open
Source Programme Office

2. code.europa.eu
Step by step…

3. ++ It impacts not just the IT domain, but the
entire organisation
++ It links Commission policy goals to open
source, making clear that a strategy
encouraging open source is beneficial to the
EC and the EU
++ It establishes a programme office tasked
with removing organisational barriers and
commence a change management
programme to establish an internal working
culture based on the principles of open
source
Think Open
Diff
European Commission
Open Source Strategy
2020 - 2023
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/
informatics/open-source-software-
strategy_en

4. Action Plan
Action
1 Set Up Open Source Programme Office
2 Set and promote inner source as default
3 Enhance software repository
4 Revise software distribution practices
5 Enable and generate innovation with open source labs
6 Develop skills and recruit expertise
7 Increase outreach to communities
8 Integrate open source in internal IT Governance
9 Ensure security
10 Encourage and promote inner source

5. Action 2: Inner source as default

6. Action 3: Enhance our SW repositories

7. Migration of Legacy Projects
Roadmap
New Projects
Start with Gitlab
Bitbucket Bamboo Phase-out
Integrate Jira & Confluence
Migration Assessment +
Announcement
Step 0 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Gitlab PaaS
Gitlab PoC
2023
2022 2024
code.europa.eu
Open source projects: code.europa.eu
Beta

8. Action 4: Improve SW Distribution Practices

9. Action 5: Open Source Labs

10. OSPO network

11. Action 7: Outreach to communities
Bug Bounties Hackathons Studies
Inventory of critical
open source
software in Europe
Feasibility study for
a funding
mechanism for open
source software
Open Source
Solutions Catalogue

12. FOSSEPS - Objectives and Scope
European Public Services should
collectively treat open source as a
shared and valuable European asset
1. European Open Source
Applications Catalogue
2. Identify Europe’s most critical
open source software
3. Encourage European Public
Services to collaborate on
open source
1
2
3

13. FOSSEPS – 3 initiatives
Finding, fixing and
preventing critical
software
Building an EU Applications Catalogue
1
2
https://xkcd.com/2347/
3
European Public
Services OSPOs
working together on
open source matters

14. Thank you
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