[PublicPolicy] The future of EU Open Source policymaking - survey and workshop on 5 November

Tue Sep 29 18:37:56 UTC 2020

Hello,

Here comes a long email!

*tl;dr: The European Commission needs input for its Open Source impact
study which will guide their policies, investments and regulations in the
coming years. Please share the survey in your networks!*

OpenForum Europe and Fraunhofer ISI  are conducting  the study on the
impact of Open Source Software and Hardware
<http://www.openforumeurope.org/open-source-impact-study/> for the European
Commission. The project aims to provide solid evidence for shaping European
Open Source policies for the years to come.

We have now reached a crucial segment of our research - the stakeholder
survey. We invite you to fill it out and share the link to the survey with
your network (especially in the private sector). *We have included some
templates to simplify sharing at the end of this email.*

The survey takes around 15 minutes to complete and we wait for the
responses until 16 October.

The insights from the stakeholder survey are important to complement the
findings from the literature, the analysis of the available data and
several case studies. We think that you have a great network of
organisations and individuals that we see as crucial for this research. We
would more than appreciate you sharing it with your partners - the more
answers we have, the more reliable and close to reality our research is and
thus the recommendations suited for positively influencing future
policymaking.

To make it easier for you, we include some useful material you can use to
share the news in your newsletter or Twitter. Please let us know if you
have any questions or suggestions regarding disseminating the survey.

TAKE ME TO THE SURVEY <https://inno.limequery.com/436575>

We invite all types of stakeholders (SMEs, large companies, non-profits,
individual developers and others) to fill the survey and share their
experience with Open Source. Are you involved in or responsible for open
source projects in your organization? Do you develop Open Source solutions
yourself? Maybe you are a part of a scientific team implementing Open
Source Hardware into their research? Or using Open Source components in
your other projects?

We ask you to fill the survey within a month, so the deadline is 16
October. We know about your time constraints. The survey should take only
about 15 minutes to fill out, so we hope it won’t be too much effort for
you and could bring great benefits for the Open Source landscape.

Thank you!

SAVE THE DATE: 5 November

On 5 November we will share first insights from our research during our
event where we will share first insights from our research. A key theme for
this conference  will be ‘Open Source as digital infrastructure’. We will
share more information soon, but we invite you to mark your calendars.

Best,

Astor Nummelin Carlberg

In case of questions, you can also contact our project leader:

Prof. Dr. Knut Blind

Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research

Tel.: +49 (0)30-314-76638

E-Mail: knut.blind at isi.fraunhofer.de

About the study:The objective of the study launched by the European
Commission is to investigate in detail the economic impact of Open Source
Software and Hardware on the European economy. It will identify strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of Open Source in relevant ICT
policies (e.g. cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digitizing the
European industry, the connected car, HPC, Big Data, Distributed ledger
technologies, etc.). Finally, the study should propose a list of policy
options that can maximize the benefit of Open Source in support of a
competitive EU software and hardware industry and a sustainable
transformation of the EU economy. The project team: Fraunhofer ISI
(represented by Knut Blind), OpenForum Europe, Mirko Boehm and Andrew Katz.
You can read more about the project on our website at
http://www.openforumeurope.org/open-source-impact-study/.

Templates you can use to share information about this survey:

Twitter

   1.

   You can just retweet us to spread the message: (link to the tweet)

SURVEY: the impact of Open Source. Are you a developer, a company or an
organisation using or developing Open Source solutions? Fill out the
stakeholder survey, a part of the study we conduct for the @EU_Commission.
Takes 15min: https://inno.limequery.com/436575

   1.

   While publishing your own content about the survey, please do not forget
   to add the link to the survey <https://inno.limequery.com/436575> and to
   tag us with @OpenForumEurope <https://twitter.com/OpenForumEurope>.

Newsletter

We invite you to fill out the stakeholder survey that will influence the
future of Open Source policymaking - click here
<https://inno.limequery.com/436575>. It is a part of the study on the
impact of Open Source conducted for the European Commission by OpenForum
Europe and Fraunhofer ISI, you can read more about the initiative here
<http://www.openforumeurope.org/open-source-impact-study/>.

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*Astor Nummelin Carlberg*
Policy Director
OpenForum Europe
tel +32 (0)2 486 41 52
mob +32 (0)497 69 08 53
web http://www.openforumeurope.org
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