Speakers
Description
Hosted by senior journalist Markus Feilner, the panel of prominent open source
players will discuss the ongoing topic of openwashing and what we can or
should do about it - from cloud to AI and public administration.
Especially in these three fields the term "opensource" has become a valuable
asset, but more and more companies feel urged to call their solutions "Open
Source". Despite the great success e.g. in public tenders, many company owners
are actually still afraid of publishing source code, not all are following the
basic rules, not everybody understands what open source actually means.
Evasion strategies abound.
On the other hand, companies need to make money, even (!) with open source.
How can that be accomplished in the different communities of cloud, public
administration and the world of wikipedia and knowledgemanagement? How can the
barely two years old center for digital sovereignty (ZenDiS) help the OSS
community and companies? Hint: The ZenDiS was recently invited by the United
nations and has received world-wide acknowledements.
We are very proud to have Holger Dyroff (COO ownCloud), Richard Heigl (CEO HalloWelt/BlueSpice Mediawiki, OSS Alternative to Atlassian Confluence), Leonhard Kugler, Director of Open CoDE at ZenDis and Cornelius Schumacher (KDE Board) on stage.
Biography
Markus Feilner is senior Linux/FLOSS expert, journalist, coach and analyst. After years as IT consultant and team lead documentation at SuSE, he spent a decade as deputy editor-in-chief for Linux-Magazine and Heise iX , both leading German tech magazines. Since the year 2000 his Regensburg company Feilner IT is specialized on OSS and the OSI layers 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Description
Openwashing, i.e. labeling proprietary software, clouds, AI as "opensource" has become one of the major threats to Libre/Open Source Software. We will discuss what is going on, why and what we can do.
