 Our next announcement is something that I'm also very excited to talk about and is very specific to this region, to Ireland, and to the greater Europe. When we look around the world today, we're seeing how important collaborative innovation in open source really is. The idea that anybody anywhere, no matter where they're from, no matter who they are, can participate both in the development and can use open source code to build anything they want is really important. At the same time, we see different regions around the world saying, hey, we wanna have our own digital community. We wanna have our own big digital economy and we wanna create new jobs and we wanna spur innovation regionally because of either the special circumstances of our region or because people here understand each other and able to collaborate more quickly. And so you kinda have this balance where open source is this free, organic global innovation engine and we kept asking yourself at the Linux Foundation, how do we do both global work and address the needs of different regions? And today we're announcing a new structure at the Linux Foundation, our Linux Foundation Europe entity. This is a organization based in Europe of European incorporation that will allow European organizations to participate regionally here and have reciprocity with the Linux Foundation globally around the world. In other words, you're gonna be able to collaborate locally and cooperate globally at the same time. Here to introduce Linux Foundation Europe is our Executive Director of FENOS and new lead of LF Europe. We chose him because of his outrageous Italian accent, Gabriele Calumbreau. Come on, please. Thank you, Jim, thank you so much. Hi everyone. As Jim said, you can probably hear my Italian accent. I'm Gabriele Calumbreau. Nice to meet you. And today, we're gonna focus on how the Linux Foundation can help the European community. And I'm really excited to have the chance to focus myself and the Linux Foundation more into the challenges and opportunities that Europe has. I wanna start with a little bit of history. That maybe helps you understand me a little better and the focus that we'll have for Linux Foundation Europe. Yeah, I was young. That's actually where it all started. 15 years ago here in Dublin. Yeah. That's where I actually started getting into open source. I was just fresh out of college and I was going for my Apache Software Foundation address. I was trying to become a committer. I was really excited. You can totally see the excitement, a lot more hair on my head. But that's really what I started feeling sort of the romantic nature of open source, the passion that drove me to continue in this career. And then I moved to Holland. I started developing SDKs, developer tools in the open, and I got hired for it. I got, you know, working for a company called Alfresco out of Europe, an open source content management company who's just setting. They were sending me all over the world and I clearly was enjoying, not entirely sure what I was doing there, but I was definitely enjoying the idea of being properly compensated for working in the open. It's just the freedom of, you know, not only being able to work in the open, but also being fairly compensated for it. Something that candidly, the open source community is still grappling with 15 years later, sustainability. And then I moved to the U.S. And as Jim said, I started running Phoenix, the FinTech Open Source Foundation. Without doing too much of a shameless plug, what I've learned there is that bringing all the different constituents of the industry, including regulators, including policymakers, there is an advantage for each one to participate in the open source collaborative process. So why am I telling you that? It's because I firmly believe that these three natures of open source can coexist. You know, I grew up in Europe in a flourishing open source decade and I still have major passion for open source. But that, it's not a dualism or a dichotomy with, you know, fostering lively ecosystems around open source projects that can ensure sustainability and proper compensation to individual developers. And of course, as Jim hinted to, especially here in Europe, the collective value of open source, the social innovation, you know, the U is a leader in many of these topics. And so, as Jim said, today we're announcing Linus Foundation Europe. We have 15 plus members. I want to actually send a shout out to our members. I know many of you are here in the room. It's personally a major pleasure to be able to focus on Europe, an area that has, I think, a major potential for innovation and leadership through open source. As Jim said, Tagline is collaborate locally, we want to make sure that we enable collaborations that can start here, but then go to a global scale. You might wondering, isn't the Linus Foundation already in Europe? Well, clearly, we're here. But even further, more than a third of our members are from Europe. Actually, pretty even split across regions. We have more than 10 staff and we have several projects that are very Europe strong. We have a five-hour open hardware initiative that is based out of Switzerland. LF Energy or S-Climate, they're very strong European representation. And Finus itself, my foundation, is half and half very much divided between Wall Street and Canary Wharf and the rest of Europe. So, why are we launching today LF Europe? Well, there's a couple of reasons. The first and foremost reason is that Europe is unique in terms of the sort of cross-border landscape, in terms of it's the only region in the world where there is a supranational entity that really aligns goals and defines a collaboration framework that is sort of a cross-borders. And so we realize that there was a need to support this type of collaboration. And as I said, Europe is a leader in not just the EU, but Europe at large, is a leader in promoting open source and really in some policies that are sort of becoming standard-setting across the world. Think about GDPR. And so it's important to be able to nurture what starts here to go hopefully and look on a global scale, which brings me to my last point, which is, you know, having grown up in Europe, I know that not only there is a huge grassroots community of open source contributors, but as I said, there are local priorities and local challenges they want to be able to address in Europe to them bring them global. So what is exactly the next foundation in Europe? As Jim said, it's an entity, a nonprofit entity incorporated in Belgium, provides local asset ownership, so it allows to start projects in Europe, in the European territory. That means that we can collaborate on open source, open hardware, open data on projects that are either specific to a problem to Europe. Think about the regulation, or there are, you know, where there is a very strong representation from European members. Despite, as you've seen from our logos, already inaugural members are from Europe and are a great representation of not just tech companies, but vertical industries, nonprofits, policy organizations. Anyone, any organization can join Linux Foundation in Europe. As Jim said, we want to collaborate locally but innovate globally. And so in terms of, of course, if you become a member of LF Europe, which is free for existing Linux Foundation members, you can start a project in Europe. You can join what we'll be forming soon, our advisory board. Now, when we reached out with this value proposition earlier in summer, and, you know, as an Italian, I know that not much moves in summer, but, you know, the response from our members has been overwhelming. This really addressed real demand from our members. You know, don't take it from me. Let me invite a few of our valued LF Europe members to tell you why they joined Linux Foundation in Europe. So, Sachiko, can I... Sorry, I lost the... Okay. Sachiko Muto, chairman of Open Forum Europe. Welcome. And then Rob Oshana, VP of Software Engineering and R&D from NXP Semiconductors. Welcome, Rob. And then we have Vasu Chandrasekara, who is vice president at CIFAC together as AP. Welcome, Vasu. And then last but not least, Phil Rob, who is head of software technology. Welcome, Phil. And I guess I'll take my seat. So, folks, thank you for being here. Hopefully you're enjoying the event already. Hopefully you have a shorter trip than me, because I'm pretty jet-lagged. A couple of questions. Very quickly, I'll start with you, Phil, if that's okay. Okay. We have a very simple question for all the panelists. Why did you become a Linux Foundation Europe inaugural member? Well, for Ericsson, we've been growing our open-source activity for quite a while now. And we continue to do that, and we've had a variety of opportunities to collaborate with a handful of other European entities on a given open-source project. And we really didn't know where to home it. You know, particularly when you want to try to engage with academia. Often there are grants associated with the academia to work in research on something interesting and open-source. That becomes rather difficult when you say, okay, let's send all of that over to the U.S. to do when all of the participants that are really founding it that are really getting together are in Europe. And that's been a struggle for us. So we're looking forward to this entity solving that problem. Very compelling. Such a go. I'll move to you. Same question. Same question. Yeah, so for OFE, you know, this notion of digital sovereignty is big on the agenda in Brussels. And we believe that open-source offers a way to enhance digital sovereignty by giving the user more control over their digital assets and sort of at the same time allowing them to benefit from international open collaboration. And so from our perspective, the establishment of LF Europe is really valuable because when we communicate with policymakers and public sector officials in Brussels and also in other European member states, we encounter a lot of misconception about open source and just a lack of knowledge, really. And so for us to be able to point to LF Europe membership and to show that major European players like Ericsson, like SAP and others, that they engage with open source and that they derive benefit from that type of collaboration, that can open a lot of doors for us and also gives a lot of credibility to our message. So we're happy to support and look forward to sort of seeing what comes out of this. We're happy to have you on board. Vasu, I'll move to you. Same question. Yeah, so why did SAP become an inaugural member? Well, you know, the expectation is quite simple. You know, we think the Linux Foundation in Europe will establish a much needed infrastructure in the European jurisdiction in all things considering open source. But yeah, let me maybe explain with a real world example, right? One where I was also personally involved in the making process. So two years back when the whole COVID crisis started, SAP was actually contacted by the German government to now create a solution with this idea of a contact tracing app on mobile phones, right? So yeah, we scrambled, we thought, how can we do this? And it became immediately clear, you know, we should open source such a solution, right? Not because of the collaboration and the innovation benefits that we get, but mostly, and the key argument here was full transparency because you need to have full trust of the public in such an application, right? And yeah, we went ahead and we created that application. It's today known as the Corona One app, but back then we just didn't have a paved road, if you will, of infrastructure on which we could actually travel on, right? So we had to create it as a standard open source project. And mind you, even if you would have suggested a neutral foundation, you know, the stakeholders, the key sponsors of the projects where was the German government, the health ministry, the Robert Koch Institute and so on. And if you would have proposed something outside the legal jurisdiction, just from a policy perspective, it would have not been accepted. So yeah, now with the Linux Foundation Europe, I think, and with many more of these kinds of opportunities for European public funded projects, yeah? I think now we will have a paved road and actually a highway for such projects, yeah? And that's why we welcome this move of the European Foundation. Thank you, Rosa. There's anything that the pandemic taught us is that we're definitely all connected. And so innovating globally sounds about right. By the way, don't tell my American friends, but Europe dealt with the COVID passes and the grim past way better. I still have this printed vaccine card like handwritten, so whatever. Last but not least, Rob, from the NXP perspective, what did you guys join? Yeah, I think from our perspective, it's all around increasing collaborative innovation. So at NXP, we're driving a lot more innovation these days. And we believe with this foundation, it's going to enable us to participate in more projects in the areas where we're focusing. That's specifically automotive, obviously, but also industrial, IOT, even edge processing, connectivity and security. So we believe this is going to enable us to drive more innovation in those key areas. So that's very important to us. And also, we have a lot of open source developers in Europe. We have large populations in Romania, Czech Republic, France, Germany. And I think this is a great message for them as well to have this dedicated foundation out here now. So I think it's a good message for the developers, and it's going to help us drive innovation. Thank you, Rob, and thank you to all of you guys. You're an amazing representation of the diverse set of membership they were bringing into LF Europe. Let me go a little bit more specific with each of you. Rob, I'll start back with you. Europe has a strong history in open source software. Of course, you guys do a lot of software as well, but as a major semiconductor manufacturer out of the Netherlands, you're a leader in the open hardware movement. You play a strong role in Risk 5, which is one of the projects here in Switzerland. How do you think the Linux Foundation in Europe can accelerate Risk 5 and more broadly the open hardware conversation with becoming more and more central to the open collaboration? Yeah, I think it's going to drive the ecosystem, especially the software ecosystem. It'll be an accelerant to that. I think when we started interacting with Risk 5 Foundation, I was on the board in the early days, and one of the things I was pushing for way back then was a software ecosystem. No real ISA is going to be successful without a strong software ecosystem around it. And under Callis's leadership and the Linux Foundation, they've come a long way in driving that software enablement, that software ecosystem. And so I think they're in an excellent place today. But I do think having a dedicated foundation out here will accelerate that on the software side. And also, even on the hardware side, there's open hardware implementations now coming out of organizations like Open Hardware Group, where they literally have an implementation of 32-bit Risk 5 cores that are available to everybody, developed by professional engineers with professional design tools. A more university-centric thing is a professionally developed implementation. I think that's going to will accelerate with this foundation's leadership going forward. No pressure. Thank you, Rob. That was really interesting. I do think there's a huge potential for open source to really bridge here. Vaso, I'll go back to you. Of course, you represent SAP. SAP is one of the probably not the largest software vendor in Europe. You guys have a long history with open source. What do you see? Which areas do you see having the most potential for the Linux Foundation in Europe to support regional collaboration? Well, as we said, bring it to the global scale. So maybe let me start with an observation. So in Europe, we have a lot of companies, small, medium-sized, large companies, which are actually regional, if not also global champions. But they have actually a strong tradition, rather in industry, that means manufacturing, automotive and so on, rather than historically coming from an IT or software perspective. And so in the last decades, we're seeing this digital transformation, and these companies are now becoming software companies as such themselves. And with that move, actually these companies need to become, because it's natural now, need to become more competent in managing open source itself. And I can actually confirm that from another perspective, because many of these companies are actually SAP's customers, because we actually provided the software during the past 50 years to run relevant parts of their businesses. And so we have a very trustful relationship with many of these customers. We have customer advisory boards and strategic councils and so on. And our open source program office, which we also created very early on, gets contacted by actually these customers and these companies on the questions of best practices of open source. Can you share your internal guidelines on how to contribute? Easy questions sometimes, but also very complex questions in how do we achieve investment security in an open source project. So overall, when you take a look at this type of thing, we here in this audience, we are like here's ahead with respect to open source and most of the companies are just that way to this trajectory. So I think one of the best ways and it connects also later is if I may take that analogy of a paved road, right? You got to enable these companies to actually with best practices with open source program office so that you not only create a road across Europe, but you make these companies post a road sign for their employees that here, this is the ramp up to the open source road, which also has a transatlantic bridge or a global bridge. And that in essence, because now you've got these companies they're enabled with open source, the open source idea and so on, and with open source becoming also more prevalent in the legislative and in the policy making process, you now have companies advocating for this type of digital commons. I think that's like the biggest lever that the Linux Foundation Europe can pull towards open source, right? Vasu, this is so interesting. I mean the idea of you not only collaborating with your customers, but really being an open source coach in a way for your customers, it's really fascinating. There are some altruistic motives behind this. No, absolutely. I think the Linux Foundation and the Tudor Group are doing a fantastic job in trying to further, I suppose, but having real, large companies promoting that, it does make wonders. It reminds me, we're actually, SAP is the co-founder of the European chapter of the Tudor Group, right? Shameless plug. You touched on digital commons, so let me move to Satchika. Open Forum Europe is the leading policy advocate for open collaboration, open source at Europe level. We're very thankful and supportive of your work. You guys released an amazing report last year in terms of the open source impact the policy level and covered several areas for the EU to further foster a commercial ecosystem and achieve its goals through open source. What do you think an entity like Linux Foundation Europe coming to the landscape can accelerate outcomes, measurable outcomes in this space? Easy question, no? Just trying to keep everything in my head there. Also, just coming in after Vasu there, because there are many things that you said that I definitely could echo and agree with. But if I take a slightly different perspective, I know, Gab, that you value research and I think that you're going to have research insight really guide your program for LF Europe. And I think this is also very valuable for us to be able to have research that's based on the European situation and to bring that to the people that we speak to. And you mentioned the study that we did for the European Commission. It was together with Fraunhofer. And indeed, the assignment there was to quantify the economic value that open source brings to Europe. And I think that's, of course, really valuable when you can point to a figure, which even though it was kind of a moderate estimate, still amounted to a big, a lot. There's some impressive numbers. Exactly, some impressive numbers. And so that opens the door a little bit to policy makers. Why should they be speaking to us? Why is this important? And especially when they saw that it contributes a lot already, but there is room to grow this and to benefit even further and so I think the research that you are going to do in other Europe and present, I think that kind of helps us with the next step, because policy makers, first you have to open the door, you want to show that you represent credible, important stakeholders. And then they say, and so what? What can we do to really reap the benefits? And then you need further insight to really show what the opportunities are, what the blockers are, et cetera, so that you can come with suggestions for sort of evidence-based policy making. And so the research are really looking forward to seeing more of that. And then, you know, Vassa, you talked about this need to kind of, it's not just the regulatory need maybe to have a European entity, but also to overcome certain psychological barriers to reaching out to the international level might be a difficult first step for a public sector official in Sweden or whatever, when they think about a project to collaborate on, et cetera. So I think that's going to be very, very valuable. I couldn't agree more. I think the perception aspect is also important, that it can be oblivious to it. Last but not least, Phil, you are not only, of course, one of the largest manufacturers in Europe, but you also sit on the Linux Foundation Board. You guys are our inaugural Platinum member for the Linux Foundation in Europe. Can you share a bit more color about the value just really at the left level to expand its operation in Europe, both with your Herrickson Foundation, Haddon? Sure, sure. I think what I've seen within the Board over the past two or three years is clearly a pent-up demand for a European entity, be it sovereignty as one of the key issues or again just the regionalness of the efforts being done, not only in Telco and in the spaces where Herrickson has actively participated, but also in different industry segments, as Vasu said. So I see that pent-up demand and what that really means is that without this, there's been an inhibitor to growth. And so there's just an opportunity for more collaboration starting and being founded out of Europe that doesn't exist today. And Herrickson for quite a while has been involved with a small nonprofit working on a regional area that we know of others as well. And I can tell you that starting a nonprofit around open-source support is hard. It's really hard to do. And when you think about the Linux Foundation and what they've done, developing software and doing it in a collaborative, level-playing field way are the mantras of what most of the folks in this audience do. But there's a tremendous amount of support that becomes known and becomes really obvious once it's there, right? A small organization, a small nonprofit supporting some outfit, getting an event together is hard. Doing this is hard, getting everybody together. Having training is hard. Doing research is hard. These all take... And you talk about a highway or a freeway or a paved road from which to build. It just makes doing the software all that much easier. Having all of that infrastructure, be it statistics for the management to know how things are going, to the research, to the... You don't think about those things in the context often of writing software, but that's really the value of what a nonprofit like the Linux Foundation brings is the rest of that, and the rest of the people around. It's an inhibitor to doing that kind of growth in collaboration in Europe, and so I'm quite excited, both as a board member and as a member of Ericsson for watching this grow. That's amazing. I'm excited as well. Folks, I want to thank you so much for coming here and sort of sharing very different perspectives for Linux Foundation Europe. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. We are going to move to... Oops. Next slide. So where do we go from here? First of all, you've heard this morning the open wallet announcement. This is our first intent to form a project under LF Europe, but we will be, of course, working on projects that are Europe strong. I talked about creating an advisory board. My first and foremost priority is to listen and learn from the community. You know, of course, I grew up here. It's been a while that I don't live here, and so I want to make sure that we hear from you what are the priorities and the challenges that we should be focusing on. And sort of such a go hinted at it, but I want Linux Foundation Europe to be not only community-driven, but data-driven. And just so it happens that we have our VP of research, Hillary Carter, presenting some exciting results for our European research. Hillary, come on stage. Thank you, Gab. Good morning, Open Source Summit. I am absolutely delighted to be here. It's wonderful to be in Dublin and not only to connect with my Irish heritage, but to describe the important work that the Linux Foundation is doing to create data-driven insights that influence not only the launch of LF Europe, but that can benefit the entire Open Source landscape. So let's give you a little bit of background about how this all unfolded. About six months ago at LF Research, we realized that we needed a new framework through which to explore Open Source Dynamics, looking through a geographic lens. And so we launched a new series which we've called World of Open Source, looking at Open Source Dynamics at the global level, at the continental level, at the regional level, and maybe even the country level. And so all of our research projects that have a geographic aspect to it and provide insight at this regional level will be released under the World of Open Source banner. Our inaugural project was launched for Europe in Europe. At CloudNativeCon Europe in Valencia, Spain in May, we launched the World of Open Source Europe Spotlight 2022 Survey. We're extremely pleased to have worked with 15 European distribution partners who helped us widely distribute the survey across the European continent to ensure that we would get a robust sample size. I'm extremely grateful to all of our survey distribution partners who hail from academia, private enterprise, and the developer and Open Source contributor communities. Together, we had more than 1,000 people start the survey. 750 of which completed all of the questions specific to Open Source consumption. 670 made it all the way through the survey. So a real team effort and that enabled us to conduct some exciting analysis and we're extremely pleased with the results, how they influence our activities and programming in Europe. And it's something that we can all benefit from. So if you took the survey, if you're one of our distribution partners, I say a sincere thanks to all of you. So here is the culmination of our collective work. I'm so pleased today to be publishing World of Open Source 2022 Europe Spotlight. Please take out your phone, scan the QR code, download the report, and distribute it to everybody you know. I'd also like to say a very special thank you to our research partners, particularly the team at the Scott Logic, Colin Eberhard, Graham Odds, and Matt Dunderdale who co-authored this report and conducted 16 interviews with subject matter experts all across Europe excuse me enabling for a much richer perspective and these interviews validated many of the findings from the survey. So dig in, share widely and let us know what you think. I'm going to share a few findings today just a few. This happy face is here for a reason and our survey results reveal that once again Open Source is an environment that is a fun and enriching space to be in. It's also an environment our survey respondents feel is a place where they can learn new skills. And that's consistent with other research that we've done across the Linux foundation. Our research also shows that Open Source remains an apolitical key to fostering the digital commons. Not only enabling innovation that can take place in Europe but those innovations then go on to become de facto standards used throughout the world validating very much the opportunities that Gab described earlier. A majority of our survey respondents have policies that openly encourage consumption of Open Source technologies. However there is an imbalance with respect to upstream contribution and that does create some challenges with respect to the sustainability of Open Source communities. Upstream contribution is consistently a challenge that we need to work to help overcome. And finally our research revealed some industry specific challenges. Most notably that the public sector is not really realizing the value of Open Source. Only 29% of public sector respondents have policies that openly encourage Open Source contribution. And that was well below the survey mean of 46%. If you'd like to dig into the research findings a little bit more we have a dedicated session this afternoon. We'll be joining us at 2.20 in Wicklow meeting room 3. I'll be there. I'll be joined by Gab Colin Eberhard who led the research report and Sachiko Mudo from Open Form Europe who's done some excellent research as you heard previously. And we'll dig into the research findings and the methodology in greater detail this afternoon. So with that as I say in Irish Gaelic I'll see you throughout the week. Thank you very much for all of your support of Linux Foundation Research. Thank you so much Hillary. Yeah to what Rob was talking before when I started FinNOS I didn't have the luxury to have a research department to help me drive the strategy. So this is just unique for us as Linux Foundation. So let me wrap our vision is to engage with you as a community advocate for Europe's strong collaboration and bring them to a global scale. And if you are not convinced as to why you should care I think as I mentioned before there's a value whether you are an individual contributor the Linux Foundation is about open governance and is about potentially supercharge your project to make it on the global scale as I said we'd love to hear from you of influencing the direction and the focus of Linux Foundation Europe. But if you are a corporate contributor you have the opportunity to join worldwide technology leaders shaping the future of open source addressing your challenges whether it's industry specific, vertical or on a certain layer of the stack or even in a certain country or region and of course open source sustainability we all have a part to play there and then finally some of the research has really uncovered the opportunity on the public sector side of the house to really use open source as a high longevity tool to drive social goals, policy goals and really collective innovation our goal is going to be to make sure not only the why is understood but also the how through open governance we can make this valuable for each of the constituents of the industry but still thinking global from the outset and so oops with that a couple of QR codes there linuxfoundation.eu is our new website you can join you can host a project and of course in case you missed it make sure that you download our World of Open Source European Report would love to hear your feedback and you know areas of collaboration that it potentially sparks with that thank you so much and I really appreciate your time, thank you