OBOOE second international meeting - Brussels Feb 22, 2008

Participants

Participation is open to representatives of european OSS business organisation or related institution, with a special focus on SME. Please Nicolas BOSSUT prior to registration to present your organisation and get more information about Obooe.

Meeting agenda

• Presentation of each organization by participants (membership, activities, focus, model, …), including the challenges and opportunities faced by their organizations and members – 15 minute each.
• Models of existing Federation of SME (Zea will prepare a draft summary of existing international business federation models, organization, scope and investigate funding scheme).
• Open discussion about models and alternatives.
• ... additional topics suggested by participants (please send it to Nicolas BOSSUT)
• Networking between participants.

When ?

Date : Fri Feb 22, 2008

Time : 13.30 - 17.30

Where ?

Workshop location

The workshop will be held in Brussels, Fondation universitaire / Universitaire Stichting (11, Rue d'Egmont / Egmonstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium)

Transports

• From the Airport: Take the train to Gare Centrale/ Centraal Station
• From Gare du Midi/Zuid Station or Gare Centrale/Centraal Station: Take Metro 2 (Simonis) to Porte de Namur/Naamse Poort or Trône/Troon

Timetables are available on the web site of the SNCB or by phone (+32/2/555.25.25).

Map

Accomodation

They are plenty hotels in Brussels. The European Commission published a list of the well-know business hotels.

Contact person ?

Nicolas BOSSUT - Zea Partners - nicolas (at) zeapartners.org - +32(0)473/515.500

Who ?

Please send a mail to Nicolas BOSSUT if you want participate to this meeting.

• British Computer Society, United Kingdom

Paul ADAMS

• COSS (Center for Open Source Solutions), Finland

Henri BERGIUS

• ESLE (Basque Open source Business Association), Spain

Daniel ARMENDÀRIZ

Philippe DOMINGEZ

• ESLIC (Canarian Open source Business Association), Spain

Gonzalo ALLER

• ESLM (Madrid Open source Business Association), Spain

Ismaël OLEA

• FossPlanet.ru, Russia

Alexander BOKOVOY

• FNILL (French Open Source Industry Federation), France

Benjamin JEAN

• FUNDECYT, Spain

César GÒMEZ MARTÌN

Jésùs RODRIGUEZ

• Grupo Ikusnet, Spain

Txema LAULLOU

• LIVE Linux Verband, Germany

Elma GEESE

• Model Driven Development, Spain

Antonio CARRASCO

• Open Ireland, Ireland

Patrick O'CONNOR

• Zea Partners, Belgium

Xavier HEYMANS

Nicolas BOSSUT

• Zope Foundation, The Netherlands

Martijn FAASSEN