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OSPOlogy.live Workshop

Join the first in-person Workshop to help organizations effectively implement Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) based on specific region needs in Europe. October's Ospology.live is hosted by OSPO at Ericsson and co-organized with TODO, OpenChain, SPDX, CHAOSS and OpenSSF projects.

 
GNU Hackers Meeting

The GNU Hackers' Meetings or or “GHMs” are a venue to discuss technical topics related to GNU and free software. The event atmosphere is friendly and informal. Anybody is welcome to register and attend, including newcomers.

 
Akademy

Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE, one of the largest Free Software communities in the world. It is a free, non-commercial event organized by the KDE Community.

 
Open Source Summit Europe

The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, and includes a collection of events centred around open source.

 
The sixth LEOS community webinar

Interested to find out the latest LEOS developments? Don’t’ miss the upcoming LEOS (#Legislation Editing #OpenSoftware) webinar! We will present updates and milestones achieved such as new features, a new code repository and our bug bounty experience. We have inspiring speakers, such as Martine Deprez, Director of Secretariat-General Decision-making & Collegiality (SG.B), European Commission who will do the welcome. Joining us, we also have our colleagues from European Commission Open Source Programme Office (EC OSPO), Gijs Hillenius and Miguel Diez Blanco to talk about code.europa.eu.

 
OW2con'22

OW2con’22 is a two day technical conference happening on 8-9 June 2022, providing an opportunity to network with peers and the international free software community as a whole. The central theme of OW2con this year is: "Reliable and Predictable Open Source Software".

 
OSOR webinar – Public Procurement of Open Source Software

Join us on 23 May for an OSOR community event focusing on the update of the Guidelines on public procurement of Open Source Software and presentations. Three guest speakers will present the challenges faced by public administrations when procuring OSS, pratical examples from municipalities and the most common legal and licensing requirements and practices.

 
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Open Belgium 2022

On 29 April 2022, the annual Open Belgium event will gather industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders and be organised in a hybrid manner. The programme will include plenary sessions, keynotes, and workshops focused on open knowledge and open data.

 
FOSS Backstage 2022

FOSS Backstage is an exciting conference dedicated to everything related to FOSS governance and open collaboration. The fourth edition of FOSS Backstage will consist of one fully virtual day followed by one in person day taking place here in Berlin. The in person day in Berlin will be live streamed for those attending virtually, and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.

 
Webinar on open data best practices in Europe

What can you learn from the top performers of the Open Data Maturity assessment 2021? Find out during the upcoming webinar on 17 March. The event will host 3 European countries that showed impressive growth in open data maturity score: Estonia, Slovenia & Ukraine.

 
FOSS Backstage 2022

FOSS Backstage is an exciting conference dedicated to everything related to FOSS governance and open collaboration. The fourth edition of FOSS Backstage will consist of one fully virtual day followed by one in person day taking place here in Berlin.

 
Boost your public administration with the BDTI

The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is provided by the European Commission as part of the Digital Europe programme. It allows public administrations to focus on gathering knowledge, insight and value from their data, instead of setting up and maintaining a complex experimental environment. If you are a public sector entity or agency, discover how we can help you find new ways to draw data-driven insights for strategic decision making.

 
Webinar: Presentation of the European Union Public Licence

The BlueHats are organising a webinar on 25 February 2022, starting at 11:00 where Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz will present the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). This webinar will be held in French and open to French governmental public agents.

 
The fifth LEOS Community webinar

Interested in a sneak preview of what the future of LEOS may hold? At the webinar you will get first-hand from Prof. Palminari (University of Bologna) the concrete learnings resulting from a recent study on ‘Drafting legislation in the era of AI and digitisation’.

 
EU Open Source Policy Summit 2022

On 4 February 2022, a physical and online event ‘EU Open Source Policy summit 2022' will be organised by OpenForum Europe, a non-for-profit think tank specialised on open source. This event will bring together global technology and policy leaders to discuss how open source collaboration and competition are being rethought to solve complex global challenges.

 
DevConf.cz 2022

On 28 and 29 January, the 14th annual DevConf.CZ will take place virtually. Sponsored by Red Hat, this community conference brings togehter developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. OSS communities will have the opportunity to synchronise and share open source projects together.

 
EU Open Data Days: registration opens soon

The first-ever EU Open Data Days will take place on 23-25 November 2021. This unique online event will serve as a knowledge hub, bringing the benefits of open data to the EU public sector, and through it to people and businesses. Registration opens at the end of July.