EmacsConf 2023 is taking place fully online. With a collaborative developer community that has been active for four decades, this two-day conference (Saturday & Sunday) may be beneficial for those in the public sector who are interested in how FOSS development communities work. In addition to its longevity, the Emacs ecosystem has the characteristic of being almost exclusively non-commercial. It is thus also an example of the role of non-commercial contributors in FOSS development communities. For the above, one particular presentation worth highlighting is on Saturday night, 22:10 CET, Emacs…

Co-organized by OW2 and the Eclipse Foundation, the Open Research Webinar series provides a brief introduction to selected software research projects that are helping to shape the future of open source software and the IT industry. The webinars focus on international partners leveraging open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs. The next episode will take place online on November 7 at 4PM CET. Registration is free: https://opensourceinnovation.eu/ The agenda includes a presentation of Cryptpad, the open source end-to-end encrypted collaborative…

The City of Paris and BlueHats, invite you to participate in the first ever Lutece Translation Hackathon, lasting one week – commencing the 16th of October. As Lutece is already in use across various administration, the project team is looking to extend the possibility for more people to reuse it in their own language. This first Hackathon will focus on the core of Lutece, to create the vocabulary basis to then extend translation with the help of AI. As this project will focus on translation towards Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, German, and more, we especially believe…

Decidim's own festival is back in October this year in Barcelona. Co-organised with the city council and supported by various public administration, this edition will focus on "Democracy, Technology and Collective Intelligence". Asking the question of how Artificial intelligence is conceptualized as an abstract form of knowledge instead of a human originated process and challenging the assumptions that could cut off citizens from their right to discuss and question what this technology brings them, Decidim Fest just opened its call for proposals. In this conference, the Meta Decidim community…

The Free Silicon Conference is a yearly event taking place in Paris Sorbonne University. The event is dedicated to Free and Open Source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits. There, experts and enthusiasts are able to discuss various part of the strategy and process of creation of Free Silicon. The goal of the conference is simple, make the technology behind integrated circuits accessible to small businesses, startups, universities, and schools with its motto: "Education, sustainability and innovation by openness and collaboration!" The conference is done with the…

The United Nations Envoy on Technology and the Office of Information and Communications Technology are hosting an event titled "OSPOs for Good: Building & Designing Cooperative Digital Infrastructure" on 21 June. The event aims to address collaboration issues among institutional Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs). It will provide education, challenges, and networking opportunities to foster the development of OSPOs for Good. Through discussions, workshops, and interactive sessions, the event will promote this concept, explore infrastructure opportunities, and scale up initiatives…

On Friday 9 June 2023, the Dutch OSPO knowledge network, in collaboration with OSPO++ and the informal OSPO network of the European public services, is organizing a meeting at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in The Hague. During this meeting participants will reflect on the role of Open source software and the phenomenon of OSPOs in the transformation to digital community goods within the public sector. With the help of workshops they will explore the potential of more ( international ) cooperation & Codeswap. Part of the workshop will be dedicated to working together on a…