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Promote free and open source software development to not be ignored by public funding anymore.
Europes IST funding
Consorship: EU IST censored the OSPRO session, but the session #513 is still reachable with a direct link: Censored Session: Go there and subscribe to it to express your displease!
The European funding has a volume of 1900 million Euros!
Research institutes get 100%, companies 50% and free/open source gets 0%: Let's change this!
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Universities get 100% sponsoring
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Companies get 50% sponsoring
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Free/Open Source gets 0% sponsoring
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Free/Open Source is currently the greatest revolution in IT
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It has a multi billion Euro economical impact with its benefit and follow up services. This is probably more than the influence of the research institutions mentioned above.
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Its development is in huge parts done in 'spare time' and most of the time for free.
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The output of Free/Open Source often outperforms university and company results
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Free/Open Source is ignored by EU (or better it is actively discriminated): Free/Open source attendees to The Hague need to pay a 350 Euro fee (400 these days):
This without any consideration of the fact that their work is done in spare time and for free. Free/Open source groups can't ask for sponsoring without being members of a company or a research institute.
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The IST project spends public money, our money (my taxes, my 350/400 Euro fee)
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The IST responsible sleep away the biggest IT movement but claim to work for the future of European economy.
You can express your disappointment about this by subscribing to session #513. The more we are the louder our voice will be!
You can also discuss your view on the mailing list OSPro Forum and on our OSPro Wiki Page.
Contact: info@edis.name
What can you do?
Please subscribe to the censored IST session #513 as soon as possible!
Decentral organizations
Decentral organizations as described by Malone are nowadays a matter of fact, but are ignored by official organizations like IST EU which are responsible to efficiently manage public money.
The dawn of the e-lance economy (Malone) The Elance Economy The Elance Economy slide show
by Marcel Ruff