This document discusses open source organizations and projects. It outlines four types of open source organizations: single vendor projects, developer communities, user communities, and competence centers. It provides examples of each type, including Linux Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Kuali Foundation, and Swiss Open Systems User Group. The document also describes activities of competence centers such as organizing events, consulting, publishing studies, and coordinating development initiatives.

1. Open Source Organizations
and Projects
Dr. Matthias Stürmer, /ch/open and Ernst & Young
NATO Advanced Research Workshop „Creating Awareness for
Using OpenSource Systems in the Public Sector in Afghanistan“
September 15th – 17th, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan

2. Short Bio of Matthias Stürmer
 Studied business administration and computer science at University of
Bern until 2005, topic of licenciate thesis was open source community
building
 Finished doctoral dissertation at the Chair of Strategic Management
and Innovation at ETH Zürich in 2009 focused on open source
communities and firm involvement
 Worked at Swiss software company Liip creating agile Internet solutions
based on open source technologies
 Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young since 2010 specialised on open
source, open government, and social media
Dr. Matthias Stürmer  Matthias Stürmer is
Senior Advisor
 Member of the board of Swiss Open System User Group /ch/open
Ernst & Young
 Secretary of Parliamentarian Group for Digital Sustainability
Belpstrasse 23
3001 Bern  Head of working group Office Interoperability of the OSB Aliance
Switzerland  Responsible of www.opensource.ch
matthias.stuermer@ch.ey.com  Co-founder of open data initiative opendata.ch
Work: +41 58 286 61 97  Since 2011 member of the city parliament of Bern.
Mobile: +41 58 289 61 97
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3. Agenda
Open Source Organizations and Projects
1. Four types of open source organizations
2. Some examples of open source organizations
3. Activities of open source competence centers
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4. Four types of open source organizations
A.Single vendor open source projects
 One company owns copyright, dual licensing possible
 For example MySQL (owner is Oracle)
Copyright
Owner
Contributor Contributor
OSS
Project
User User User
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5. Four types of open source organizations
B.Developer community
 Developing firms and individuals own copyright of open source software
 For example Apache Foundation or Linux Foundation
Copyright
Owner
Owner Owner
OSS
Project
User User User
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6. Four types of open source organizations
C.User community
 Software users own copyright of open source software
 For example Apache Foundation
Vendor Vendor Vendor
OSS
Project
Owner Owner Owner
Copyright
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7. Four types of open source organizations
D.Competence center
 Intermediary organization that promotes open source software
 For example /ch/open or Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA)
OSS
Project
User Vendor
OSS Competence OSS
Project Center Project
Vendor User
OSS
Project
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8. Overview of open source organizations
Single vendor Developer User community Competence
open source community centers
project
Goals Sell enterprise Follow business model Share development Promote open source in
edition (dual and/or personal costs, solve user general, coordinate
licensing) interest problems initiatives
Leaders Initiating Developing companies Software users Board of directors of
developing and individual the organization
company programmers
Scope Global Global Global or regional Regional or local
Examples MySQL by Oracle, Linux Foundation, Kuali Foundation for Open Source Business
Openbravo ERP by Apache Foundation, universities, PillarOne Alliance, Swiss Open
Openbravo, Mozilla Foundation, for insurance companies, Systems User Group,
Magnolia CMS by TYPO3 Association GENIVI for car CENATIC, ADULLACT
Magnolia manufacturers
Activities Manage open Manage open source Manage open source Manage initiatives such
source project project by creating project by defining as awards, directories,
roadmap common requirements lobbying, information
and awarding contracts platforms, working
groups etc.
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9. Agenda
Open Source Organizations and Projects
1. Four types of open source organizations
2. Some examples of open source organizations
3. Activities of open source competence centers
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10. Single vendor open source projects
Copyright
Owner
Contributor Contributor
OSS
Project
User User User
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11. Copyright
Owner
Openbravo ERP Contributor
OSS
Project
Contributor
User User User
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12. Copyright
Owner
Magnolia CMS Contributor
OSS
Project
Contributor
User User User
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13. Developer communities
Copyright
Owner
Owner Owner
OSS
Project
User User User
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14. Copyright
Owner
Linux Foundation www.linuxfoundation.org
Owner Owner
OSS
Project
User User User
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15. Copyright
Owner
Mozilla Foundation www.mozilla.org
Owner Owner
OSS
Project
User User User
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16. User communities
Vendor Vendor Vendor
OSS
Project
Owner Owner Owner
Copyright
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17. Vendor Vendor Vendor
OSS
Kuali Foundation www.kuali.org
Project
Owner Owner Owner
Copyright
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18. Vendor Vendor Vendor
OSS
GENIVI Alliance www.genivi.org
Project
Owner Owner Owner
Copyright
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19. Vendor Vendor Vendor
OSS
PillarOne Risk Management www.pillarone.org
Project
Owner Owner Owner
Copyright
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20. Vendor Vendor Vendor
OSS
OpenJustitia www.openjustitia.ch
Project
Owner Owner Owner
Copyright
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21. Vendor Vendor Vendor
OSS
HISP www.hisp.org
Project
Owner Owner Owner
Copyright
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22. Competence centers
OSS
Project
User Vendor
OSS Competence OSS
Project Center Project
Vendor User
OSS
Project
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23. OSS
Project
User Vendor
CENATIC in Spain www.cenatic.es OSS
Project
Competence
Center
OSS
Project
Vendor User
OSS
Project
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24. OSS
Project
User Vendor
ADULLACT in France OSS
Project
Competence
Center
OSS
Project
Vendor User
OSS
Project
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25. OSS
Project
User Vendor
OSS Watch in UK OSS
Project
Competence
Center
OSS
Project
Vendor User
OSS
Project
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26. OSS
Project
User Vendor
Swiss Open Systems User Group OSS
Project
Competence
Center
OSS
Project
Vendor User
OSS
Project
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27. List of open source competence centres
 http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/oss-competence-centres
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28. Agenda
Open Source Organizations and Projects
1. Four types of open source organizations
2. Some examples of open source organizations
3. Activities of open source competence centers
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29. Activities of open source competence centers
 Organization of conferences and workshops
 Consulting for administrations, businesses
 Studies and publications of open source success stories
 Coordination of development activities of user communities
 Creation of directories of open source firms and credentials
 Management of information platforms about open source
 Advocacy in government organizations and politics
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30. Coordination of development initiatives
About the project
 Project to improve OOXML support in
LibreOffice/OpenOffice
 Coordination through new Open Source
Business Alliance (OSBA) Working Group
„Office Interoperability“
 Public tender and more information
available on OSBA website
 SUSE and Lanedo awarded with
implementation
Public institutions
 City of Freiburg i.B. Work packages within the specification
 City of München 1. Formatting of frames and images in .docx
 City of Jena 2. Formatting of tables in .docx
 Swiss Federal Court 3. Formatting of lists in .docx
 Federal Strategy Unit for IT (ISB) 4. Formatting of comments in .docx and .xlsx
 Another Swiss federal agency 5. Embedding of fonts in OOXML and ODF
 Canton of Vaud
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31. Swiss open source study 2012
 Analysis of diffusion of open source: Who uses which open source
technologies, why, with which benefit, why not etc.?
 By Swiss Open Systems User Group /ch/open and SwissICT
 202 participants (firms, instutitions), publication in October 2012
 Additionally reports, case studies, best practices etc.
Wichtigste Vorteile von Open Source
Unterstützung von offenen Standards und Schnittstellen 48 35 36 23 15
Kosteneinsparungen (keine Lizenzkosten, höhere Verhandlungsstärke) 51 31 22 24 15
Unabhängigkeit der Lieferanten (Senkung Vendor Lock-In) 37 41 22 26 16
Breite Community für Wissensaustausch (Lernmöglichkeiten) 20 30 29 21 31
1. Priorität
Einfachere Anpassungen an eigene Bedürfnisse (Zugang zum Quellcode) 13 17 23 25 23 2. Priorität
3. Priorität
Förderung von Innovation und Wettbewerb in der IT-Branche 15 16 25 22 19
4. Priorität
Erhöhte Stabilität (breite Testbasis) 2 5 11 15 20
5. Priorität
Erhöhte Sicherheit (Transparenz des Quellcodes) 7 6 12 13 13
Attraktiver IT-Arbeitsplatz (Motivation für Mitarbeitende) 4 10 6 5 13
Regionale Wertschöpfung durch lokale Open Source Anbieter 22 3 9 13
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180

32. Local open source roundtables
 Local networking among
government agencies and
open source companies
 Catalog of services and
supported open source
products
 Photograph: Meeting of
11 open source providers
in Bern with city IT
management department
on August 29, 2012
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33. Discussion
 Questions, comments, ideas, wishes?
Dr. Matthias Stürmer
Senior Advisor Ernst & Young
matthias.stuermer@ch.ey.com
Work: +41 58 286 61 97
Mobile: +41 58 289 61 97
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