OpenPA

• SourceForge.net, the popular open source forge site, hosts over 260,000 projects developed by 2.7 million developers.
• On the social coding site GitHub, 498,000 people are hosting over 1.5 million projects. The vast majority of them fall under an open source license.
• Google’s open source Chrome web browser holds 8 to 10 percent market share of the web browser market since its release in September 2008 and is growing quickly.
• Android has surpassed BlackBerry in overall mobile operating system marke share and over the 2010 holiday season, grew faster than Apple iOS, according to Net Applications.
• The Firefox web browser developed by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation holds about 31 percent usage among web users.
• According to IDC, demand for Linux servers continues to grow and represented 17.5 percent of all server revenue, up 2.6 percent from last year.
• According to the December 2010 Netcraft web survey, the open source Apache web server holds 59.35 percent of the web server market share, followed by Microsoft with 22.22 percent, while open source Nginx and Lighttpd held 6.62 percent and .51 percent respectively with 240 million web servers queried.
• The Fedora Linux project sees over 2 million unique visitors to its site in a given month; over 150,000 downloads; and over 25,000 active contributors of code, documentation, translations and bug submissions per month.
• Red Hat, the world's largest open source company, ended its fiscal Q3 in November with over $236 million, up 21% from the prior year and is on track to reach over $1 billion in revenue in 2011. It would be the first open source-focused company to break the billion dollar barrier.

public administration is the rightholder of software built under its own requirements and with its own money

• do all contractors respect this statement?
• does all PA enforce this right?

Which tools learning for PA of tomorrow

• EII
• mobile development
• SOA
• HTML5
• Business analysis
• Collaboration & communication
• Archival & retrieval
• Security

OSS can help GDP and PA mission

Good examples

• in Europe licence money goes to foreign companies
• OSS can help reuse
• procuring OSS is easier for PA
• uses open standards
• steers citizen towards legal behaviour

• France (procurement requirements that implied OSS offering)
• Brazil
• China

buy/use

make

• 30 years of software
• obsolescence is becoming a problem
• integration is needed
• successful project need more power

Open source can be an answer

Design IT for PA

87 public body consortiated

> 1000 servers

hundreds IT procedures managed

specific law on OSS

• promotes open data
• openness of source code of PA development
• promotion of OSS in schools and SMBs

We got a law that talk about evaluation of products, openness in data format

no clear strategy on open source

some examples

niche market

• mosquito fight
• old age vacation program
• doctor choose/revoke
• gas station grant
• public digging
• e-Procurement & tender
• ...

it depends on the pieces you use to start "make"

few software start ALL from scratch

What about community?

Re-use between PA

ALL rights but moral one

How to exert the right?

good contract .. or asking for a specific OSS licence

but which one?

• PA as neutral sponsor that guarantee equity between partners
• private of all size (single contributor or company) can participate
• governance in PA's hands
• different PA could fund and so gain rights (gain access on board comittee based on funding)
• development based on public auction for features
• private can "branch" new feature to satisy market interest; PA can opt to include branch into mainstream
• public forge

• governance of the product
• automatic reusability and simpler maintenance procurement
• convergence of requirement and funds
• better testbed

Avdantages

• right to use the product in commercial context
• chance to evolve product aside PA's will
• visibility on capability

Evolved glasshouse

Legal aspects

[i'm no lawyer]

> 8100 municipalities

... and enable interoperability

110 provinces

20 regions

• PA2 has to ask PA1 for reuse
• take copy of the software (fork)
• to get support PA2 has better call the same original developer or ... cost rise
• no single maintainer
• if product require licence fee PA2 has to buy it

Reuse limits

PA software needs constant update due to change of central law or local legislation

Luca Gioppo

technical leader

XML

luca.gioppo@gmail.com

OSS for school

java

portals

SOA

PNL

open source

computer graphic

php

architecture

rpg

cms

EA

integration

EII

internet of things

Why this speech?

What do I have to teach you?

Why bother?

You study to become future managers?

An engineer has an ethic code

Public Administration must work for common good

PA business