Workshop agenda - Registration (We are sorry, but registration is no longer possible since the workshop is booked out) - Presentations (member or participant login required)

Nearly all Open Source licenses have a common set of license obligations that is to forward i) the license text, ii) a warranty disclaimer in favor of the original authors and iii) a list of copyright notices. In the good old days when software was developed by a small number of authors and there was only a small number of different licenses this was relatively easy to fulfill. These three documents could be handed over to the customer in print but could also easily be included into the software.

Today, however, there are software packages written by more than 10,000 contributors and including up to hundred and more different licenses. Even if someone underwent the enormous work to collect all this information manually, it would still include the risk that something was forgotten, and, unfortunately, even a single forgotten element of this information may already constitute a license infringement. Thus, the only solution is to use automated tools to extract this indispensable information from software. In addition, it is not sufficient to just use this tool once, but it must be integrated into a company's processes to provide continuous integration. Finally, even when all of this is achieved, the tool should still allow to supervise not only a single department of a company but all departments that require such tools in order to provide a synergistic effect. The latter clearly asks for a client server concept of such a tool and one of the best suitable tools for this purpose is FOSSology. Goal of the workshop is to make participants familiar with important features and relevant configurations of FOSSology and to learn how this tool can be integrated into everyday’s work.

An individually prepared FOSSology database on a dedicated server will be made available for every participant. In the morning of both workshop days  help desk sessions are offered, where participants can join in at any time for technical check-up and ensure proper access to server and database. The actual workshop sessions start at 1pm respectively on both days.

We are very pleased that Michael C. Jaeger, co-maintainer of the FOSSology project and co-lead of the Eclipse SW360 project, and Maximilian Huber, developer and supporter of the FOSSology and Eclipse SW360 projects accepted our invitation to contribute to the workshop as trainers and speakers.

Participants of the workshop should have basic knowledge of Open Source licensing. No particular experience with FOSSology is required.

This workshop is recommended for anybody, who is interested, be it by personal or by professional reasons, in learning the theory, the background and the practice of software scanning in order to obtain license compliance. This comprises but is not limited to software developers, project managers, Open Source officers, legal consultants, employees of purchase departments, etc.

Participants of the workshop should have basic knowledge of Open Source licensing. No particular experience with FOSSology is required.

Participants will get access to an individual FOSSology server instance that can be operated from any commonly used Web browser. To ensure that every participant can connect to the FOSSology server and database without any technical hassle during the workshop, help desks are offered in the mornings of the workshop days and we recommend to join in at least on the first day at any time between 10am and 12pm.

• Employees of regular OSADL members, associate OSADL members and academic OSADL members: free access (please select the check box "OSADL member" when registering)

• Regular workshop fee for non-members: EUR 1,200 per person. Please select the check box "Not an OSADL member" when registering. An invoice will be sent to the given address shortly after the registration. 

All given prices are net prices per person exclusive VAT.

For this workshop the number of participants is limited to 40. We are sorry, but registration is no longer possible since the workshop is already booked out. However, and in case there is enough interest, we also plan to repeat the online FOSSology workshop in the first quarter of 2022. In order to be able to estimate the interest in such a repetition of the workshop, we would appreciate if you could send us a short note by email in case you are interested.

When you register for participation at the event you agree that the personal data you enter in the registration form will be processed at OSADL (see OSADL privacy policy).

You may revoke this agreement at any time by email, mail or phone using the communication data provided at the OSADL imprint page but this will also cancel your registration.

The presentations of the workshop are available here: Workshop presentations (member or participant login required to display presentaitons)

• Carsten Emde: Carsten Emde has a long history of professional activities in the field of software development, system integration and training, particularly for embedded system software. Carsten is specialized on graphical user interface, robotics, real-time systems and on legal and business aspects of using Open Source software in industry. He has been managing OSADL since its foundation in 2005.
• Maximilian Huber: Maximilian Huber is developer and supporter of the FOSSology and Eclipse SW360 projects
• Michael C. Jaeger, Co-Maintainer of the FOSSology project and co-lead of the Eclipse SW360 project: Michael C. Jaeger is one of the maintainers for Linux Foundation's FOSSology and Eclipse SW360 projects, both available on Github and both in the area of OSS handling w.r.t. license compliance and component management. Michael works in several roles as project lead, software architect, trainer and consultant for distributed systems, server applications and their development with Open Source software.
• Caren Kresse: Caren Kresse holds a Master degree in Physics. Already during her studies she used and appreciated the large amount of Open Source software and she became acquainted with all aspects of Open Source communities. In particular, she specialized on legal aspects of conveying Open Source software and has been working on various aspects of Open Source license compliance with OSADL since 2018. Among others, she leads the OSADL Open Source Policy project and is deeply involved in the OSADL License Obligations Checklists project. Furthermore, she maintains the OSADL Docker Base Image.

The workshop language is English. The presentation material will be in English, too.

We would appreciate if workshop participants completed and submitted the workshop feedback questionnaire in order to better meet their requirements and consider their suggestions in future events: Feedback sheet. Thanks in advance.

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have further questions:
Andrea Ruf
officeªosadl.org
Phone.: +49 6221 98504 13