1. EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND OSEPA PROJECT Software Freedom Day 1 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day INTERREG IVC Presentation of the Osepa-project Amsterdam, 14 th of September 2011 Jan Verlinden IT Manager

2. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 2 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day Outline The project The partners The output Experiences Sequel ? Event Best Practices in Public Administrations : http://epaopensource.schoten.be

3. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 3 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day The project Promote potential benefits of os Facilitating further adoption by public administrations Knowledge and expertise sharing Inter-regional cooperation

4. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 4 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day Target groups - stakeholders Public administrations' officials Policy makers Os software developers Os researchers Civil society

5. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 5 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day The partners Belgium Greece Great Britain Latvia Sweden Spain Italy Germany Romania Cyprus Czech Republic

6. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 6 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day The output A pan European Survey : The Netherlands : https://osepa.epigenesys.co.uk/index.php?sid=14663&lang =nl Belgium :https://osepa.epigenesys.co.uk/index.php?sid=15732&lan g=nl Set of guidelines to select the optimum software Good-practice guide of oss cases within pub admin A policy recommendation paper

7. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 7 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day Sequel ? Project ends December 2012 Sequel ? Preparation is labouring work Searching for partners

8. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 8 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day Experiences +++ : Surprising best practices Very motivated partners Inventing again the wheel - syndrome --- : A lot of paperwork … ;-( Difficult to prove the immediate advantage for own organisation

9. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 9 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day Event Best Practices : 18 th of October Website : http://epaopensource.schoten.behttp://epaopensource.schoten.be

10. MANAGING AUTHORITY OF EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION PROGRAMMES 10 Amsterdam Software Freedom Day Q & A Jan Verlinden jan.verlinden@schoten.be