1. 1 Cooperation in development of Open Source Software MSIS meeting in Oslo 18-20 May 2009 Rune Gløersen IT Director Statistics Norway

2. 2 Background Software developed by NSIs under commercial licensing terms –PC-Axis, Blaise etc Vulnerable to strategic changes in the NSIs Success becomes costly What should be considered when moving to OSS ?

3. 3 Cooperative development, adoption of CBMs and reuse of software Well defined Statistical Business Process Model Harmonised Information Architecture Service Oriented IT Architecture Cooperation within some defined frames

4. 4 Open Source Community Development and Maintenance Well defined Statistical Business Process Model Harmonised Information Architecture Service Oriented IT Architecture Cooperation within some defined frames

5. 5 Open Source Community Decide upon software development strategy and cooperation Establish organisation Decide upon type of F/OSS Licence Involvement of commercial companies End user administration Marketing Funding

6. 6 Open Source Community - responsibility Establish ownership/ partnership, sufficiently anchored within the participating organisations Establish organisation –Development team (roles) –Maintenance team (roles) –Ownership and commitment –Repository (Eurostat OSOR…)

7. 7 OSS Community Funding Partner(s) Consortium committee Development Team OSS Repository Interested parties End users Services Contributions Maintenance Team

8. 8 The 10 roles in OSS development teams Developers (Coders) Packagers (Install, integrate) Artists (Graphical interfaces) Documentation writers Testers (Beta,…) Translators Support technicians Marketing advocates Users…. Infrastructure providers (repositories etc)

9. 9 Legal aspects Decide upon type of F/OSS Licence –GPL, EUPL,… (Copyleft) –BSD, MIT, (derive as you like) –Dual License (OSS and commercial) –Differentiated licensing (GPL, LGPL) NSIs position fits well with the objectives for OSS Prepare for added value from commercial business –Contributors –Integrators –Value-added services

10. 10 Other aspects End user administration Marketing Should be self-financed

11. 11 Funding First time development must always get targeted funds You need a success to establish a commercial product A roaring success becomes increasingly costly If you succeed to gain momentum, OSS will start to pay off –Contributions