OSOR.eu Open Source Observatory and Reposotory OSOR eid/esignature/pki community workshop Szabolcs Székács European Commission Marco Battistoni Unysis EUROPEAN COMMISSION 13 November 2008 Directorate-General for Informatics
Agenda Aim of the workshop Current tools on OSOR to support communities Future goals Your advices Ideas of the OSOR team Why is your project NOT yet on OSOR? Short presentation of OSOR and its services 2
Aim of the workshop Facilitate the formulating of a community around open source eid/ esignature and PKI solutions which can be interesting for the public administrations. Promote OSOR as a repository and development environment for your project Learn what we do right and what is still missing to better support your community 3
OSOR.eu tools to support communities Static pages on OSOR.eu 1st communities: GIS, Eurostat Link to projects Pages with comments on OSOR.eu Public feedback on OSOR.eu Procurement Guidelines for Open Source Software EUPL community Projects in OSOR.Forge Discussion on GIS spatial data licensing OSOR.eu user group Wider audience: epractice raise awareness of OSOR in this public administration exchange platform 4
OSOR.eu aims in the mid term Provide support and moderation in EUPL community Provide more forums for activating static community pages Further implement federation with National Forges, including searches Improve taxonomy/ search features for non-expert publics 5
Further suggestions your advice? Issue management tool (JIRA) Configuration tools Continuous integration servers? More workshops is this type what the community needs? 6
Further ideas from OSOR.eu team More support from the community do some of you intend to support this community? How? Video tutorials with the help of external services - ie: Youtube Partnership with research projects : Qualipso code quality metric tools, Other needs? Enhance forge.osor project-site building guidelines for making project pages templates Further stress tests for forge.osor Fine-tuning of taxonomy 7
OSOR: Platform and services 8
What is OSOR? OSOR is a central meeting place a website where public administrations can freely share their open source IT solutions and experiences in order to be able to offer better egovernment services to citizens. There are a myriad of code sharing platforms already Why set up yet another platform? Why is it needed? OSOR is especially built for Public Administrations only projects which were specially built for PAs around Europe are hosted In contrast with national forges already active, OSOR provides a European level visibility for projects - not competing with national forges but supporting them. 9
OSOR services Website or Information Platform Website with good practice in the use of libre software by public administrations where you can find: News Case studies Events Newsletters other... 10
OSOR forge services Forge/Collaborative environment: support collaborative development, encourage and facilitate reuse (libre software for public administrations) Repository of software Development platform Facilities for collaboration 11
How Can I contribute in OSOR? There are 2 ways of Participating in OSOR Your project is hosted directly in OSOR Your project can be hosted in a Federated Repository. 12
Hosted in OSOR Your project is physically hosted in OSOR You need to be a registered user You need to be compliant with the 10 Principles You need to Fill out the Project Form 13
In brief (10 Principles) The project must be an Open Source project The platform is reserved for software and projects that are publicly financed Software or documentation that will be uploaded on the OSOR.eu must be made available for free and under a recognised Open Source licence 14
Federated Forges OSOR 15
Who is already Federated with OSOR? Adullact with 401 projects Forxa de Mancomun with 101 projects Morfeo-Forge with 53 projects La forja de Guadalinex with 31 projects CNIPA with 18 projects 16
Just few words about the Architecture 17
Virtualisation Technique Architecture based in virtualization techniques Services separated in virtual machines Improved security. Simplified administration. Recovery of faulted virtual nodes, migration between physical computers. 18
Housing and networking facilities Physical requirements Data-centre with physical security requirements against intrusion, natural disasters, etc. Full rack hosting (42U). Electrical availability: two separate electrical circuits. Security Firewalling provided by housing service. Two redundant, high availability, managed firewalls. Performance / Traffic Connection to two major carriers well connected in Europe Sustained rate 10 Mbps, with peak rates. Availability: >99.9 % 19
Achievements 1 month after the official launch Sextante Interfaçage age AgréGée 49 projects already hosted on OSOR 1100 national projects visible and searchable through OSOR 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 3311 3212 Number of unique visitors 2819 5665 4110 6965 6621 12590 2351 13310 July August September October 1st week of Nov year 2008 More and more visitors: Forge OSOR 1. (10,700) WollMux 2. (1,600) SEXTANTE 3. (1,500) Interfaçage age AgréGée 4. (159) OSOR Downloading of projects 20
What do you gain by using OSOR? Benefits for users Benefits for contributors Saving time and money by reusing egov applications Get legal and practical guidelines on using OSS in your administrations Identification of communities in their specific domains and exchange of experiences Get OSS related content - news, events, case studies on one central site Gaining visibility for your project on a European level Can focus on your project instead of solving technical problems (hosting, maintenance, project webpage, forums, wikis to interact with your users) Can use OSOR services to develop in collaboration 21
Thank YOU! Please check the website: Osor Website: http://www.osor.eu Forge: http://forge.osor.eu OSOR Software: http://forge.osor.eu/projects/osor/ 22
Your ideas from presentations Why is your project not YET on OSOR.eu? To be edited on the fly during workshop To be edited on the fly during answers 23