Fossa Conference 2010 Where Open Source Meets Academia
10 Rue Pierre Semard, Grenoble, France.
The second edition of the fOSSa Conference – Free Open Source Software for Academia -, sponsored by HP Open Source Division and organized by INRIA, Engineering Group, Eclipse, IRILL, Fraunhofer Fokus, Plume, QualiPSo et l’EMSI Grenoble (Grenoble Ecole de Management), will take place in Grenoble, École de Management, from 8th to 10th November 2010. Read more »
The history of FOSS can be traced back to academic origins: distributing source code under a permissive license was the de facto rule in academia in the 70′s. Since then, FOSS became a wide spread paradigm throughout the software industry, and its alignment with academic goals tended to be forgotten.