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Follow UsPARIS, FRANCE: The Open World Forum, the leading global forum for Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) worldwide, aims to bring together all the key players in the open software ecosystem.
The Open World Forum 2009 will feature a number of different tracks where community and technical leaders, CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, legal experts, investors, political leaders, and other senior executives can get involved in group activities, brainstorming sessions, panels, discussions and networking/social events.
"The Open World Forum will enable decision-makers from the worldwide FLOSS ecosystem to openly share their concerns, issues and experiences, while collaboratively developing initiatives to ensure that open software is a key driver in the digital recovery," commented Jean-Noël de Galzain, chairman of the program committee for the Open World Forum 2009 and CEO of Wallix.
The Open World Forum 2009 will feature:
* The FLOSS Communities Summit: organized in partnership with Apache, Eclipse, the Linux Foundation, OSA and OW2, to enable key FLOSS communities worldwide to foster synergies and ensure sustainability
* The FLOSS Politics Summit: designed to highlight the advances made and the opportunities for open software in the wider geo-strategic context. It will be complemented by the annual IDABC Open Source conference, on Open Source interoperability and government initiatives in Europe
* An open innovation forum and emerging technologies radar: bringing together R&D centers, competitiveness clusters, start-ups and investors. This will also deliver the worldwide FLOSS Innovation Awards
* A conference on ’FLOSS: at the heart of the Internet of the future‘: being jointly organized with Google and the Mozilla Foundation.
The Open World Forum will also play host to a large number of related seminars and workshops, bringing together Open Source experts, architects, developers, IT Directors, decision-makers and investors from every continent.
“We are very excited to be taking part in this global FLOSS event,” comments Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “It provides a great opportunity for us to share ideas and initiatives for making Open Source a decisive lever to foster innovation and competitiveness for the economic recovery.”