WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.680 So, I'm going to present my proposal for a Euroshark. Of course, inspired, we had last year 00:12.680 --> 00:20.240 here, the discussions about a Eurostack at Boston, and it then had a very strange career. 00:20.240 --> 00:26.640 It ended up in the German coalition treaty by surprise, but not only the Eurostack, but also 00:26.720 --> 00:31.760 the German-Landstack, and both of them were like empty boxes, no one really knew what was 00:31.760 --> 00:39.200 exactly inside. The Eurostack discussions inspired us very much, and they took a bit of a twist 00:39.200 --> 00:45.840 of by European, which personally, I have my difficulties to endorse and more for open markets 00:45.840 --> 00:53.280 and global collaboration. And even by American, I cannot take the seriously, sorry about that. 00:53.360 --> 01:00.640 So, what's the Euroshark? First of all, yeah, I made a nice logo, and it's a friendly word play 01:00.640 --> 01:07.680 on the Eurostack. I didn't want to piggyback on the various proposals that we have, and it's 01:08.720 --> 01:14.320 a kind of workshop idea of let's create some plans for what we can do in order to promote open 01:14.320 --> 01:21.520 source and create some capacity in open source, because previously there were some discussions here 01:21.600 --> 01:26.960 about different organizational models, and how to reorganize the community. That's very nice. 01:26.960 --> 01:33.600 Last year, on the of emailing list, I think I had some interesting experience. I was 01:34.480 --> 01:39.600 I scribbled often some plans, and I was scribbling some plans for the Fedivers. I'm not so 01:40.640 --> 01:45.680 so much into this community, but I wrote a plan, and then I got very nice feedback from people 01:45.680 --> 01:50.560 who were working on alternative social media, and they give me lots of getting lots of input. 01:50.640 --> 01:55.760 And I think there's a need now independent of the organizational setting where it takes place 01:55.760 --> 02:03.200 to think about plans for what shall we do, and when we get the funding, and what can we present 02:03.200 --> 02:11.840 as an inspirational idea as a project in order to get some funding? Yeah, it's a word play on the 02:11.840 --> 02:20.560 Euro stack, of course, but friendly. And it's also the word shack is a tribute to this world of 02:20.560 --> 02:28.000 legendary investor world where we have the garage and the shacks where people just do their stuff. 02:29.200 --> 02:33.200 In essence, what should come out of it is like a collection of plans, 02:33.920 --> 02:39.680 where you can have whatever your organizational settings, I've prepared here something for you. 02:39.760 --> 02:43.760 This is a project you can do into in your new setting. 02:45.360 --> 02:52.640 And I must admit, so far I worked very much on the curation element of all of this, 02:52.640 --> 02:59.680 which means like the basic ideology, so to speak, like the questions that always get asked, 02:59.680 --> 03:05.440 and I thought it's better like to answer them before we get into the discussions over again, 03:06.000 --> 03:09.920 which means the decisions I've taken, how to describe things, 03:09.920 --> 03:12.400 while we don't want to do Airbus projects, etc. 03:13.520 --> 03:19.360 Need to get written down to be a base for discussion with you can disagree, of course. 03:20.560 --> 03:26.240 The objective is also lots of discussion last year, digital sovereignty, 03:26.240 --> 03:31.920 maybe it's better to talk about agency, yeah, which is here we have a definition that's nice to 03:31.920 --> 03:36.960 start with something concrete, the ability of individuals, organizations and public authorities 03:36.960 --> 03:42.080 to actively shape, manage and control their use of digital technologies and services. 03:43.120 --> 03:49.840 The older ones of us remember for software freedoms, but that's very much specific to free software. 03:49.840 --> 03:56.240 We can take this more generally to a digital ecosystem and then we have digital sovereignty. 03:56.320 --> 04:04.480 We can also frame digital sovereignty in a broader picture of, yeah, you know, territorial sovereignty, 04:04.480 --> 04:10.400 it's still current with Greenland, energetic sovereignty, Russia, I'm just mentioning, 04:11.520 --> 04:18.000 and of course technological, or digital sovereignty, our ability to grow to control the software 04:18.000 --> 04:25.440 and the hardware that we have. So just to put it together there's a fundamental spirit and there's 04:25.520 --> 04:32.160 the frugal manifest that I've taken as inspiration. It's a bit similar to, yeah, with the 04:32.160 --> 04:38.560 open knowledge context, came with like the tech we want. So puts a framing where one also talks 04:38.560 --> 04:49.760 about like creative use, about ecological effects of coding smart, doing more with less 04:50.640 --> 04:57.280 and applying open source principles. What's important for me is also open-class practices. 04:57.280 --> 05:02.720 Because in the end, we have like this open source where a government contractor provides source code 05:02.720 --> 05:09.280 and in the end it's released as open source, but we're not using actually the benefit of open source 05:09.360 --> 05:19.440 collaboration, like using GitHub, like development in the open and so on. And I thought it was 05:19.440 --> 05:27.040 an attractive about ideology. I thought it was also very helpful to write it up, to explain 05:27.040 --> 05:32.880 to others what constitutes an important element of open source communities, how we collaborate 05:33.360 --> 05:38.480 together. And this was important for me, global focus. This shouldn't be something 05:39.680 --> 05:47.680 where you just have, yeah, the way we just say by European and we don't even care if it's 05:47.680 --> 05:53.600 open source or not, but more like our focus should be like to strengthen the global collaboration 05:53.600 --> 05:59.200 and ecosystem and make sure that it's open so it can be exchange, the interesting business model 05:59.200 --> 06:07.600 scan flourish and build this Euroshark. The Euroshark, both, is on the one hand like this set of 06:07.600 --> 06:13.040 plants that are about to be developed, but at the same time also like the creative workshop 06:13.040 --> 06:18.880 and the creative process for making this happen, the idea is to define these blueprints 06:18.880 --> 06:25.520 for scalable open and it is important scalable open projects. However, and at that point with 06:25.600 --> 06:32.720 scalable there should be a backstop. Like we make a project proposal, but in a way it already exists. 06:34.000 --> 06:42.240 So everything, everything that goes into it leads to, yeah, I'm perfect in time, just yourself 06:42.240 --> 06:50.480 of the time that's nice. So we have the backstop of something that already exists in a way so we don't 06:50.480 --> 06:56.560 have to, we don't have a risk. This is very important in the political field because say when 06:56.560 --> 07:02.640 you come with something like, okay, Europe should get its own search engine, then sounds like, 07:02.640 --> 07:10.880 okay, the French have a crazy idea to combat Google and yeah, this cost land 300 million, 07:10.880 --> 07:16.080 but they will not succeed and politicians they don't like to invest in projects that will not 07:16.160 --> 07:23.680 succeed. I think an open source ecosystem gives us already a very nice environment where money 07:23.680 --> 07:33.760 that gets funded for such ideas will lead to, yeah, a growing of the technology stack and so 07:33.760 --> 07:40.240 even if the project as such fails, you will have a contribution to the overall thing and it 07:40.240 --> 07:47.360 will be something good. So that's important for me to prevent like this here because and this 07:47.360 --> 07:53.360 also something I address with the Eurocheck when you're into EU policy discussions. In the EU 07:53.360 --> 07:59.840 treaties we have the objective of competitiveness and competitiveness as an ideology basically is 07:59.840 --> 08:07.440 we side with the strong party, we support the strong party and so we strengthen our own strengths 08:07.600 --> 08:13.360 and this in my view has led to the shortcoming in the digital field because we always said, 08:13.360 --> 08:19.440 oh, it doesn't make any sense to compete with Microsoft, etc. So in Europe, yes, there are some 08:19.440 --> 08:24.560 small media enterprises that have interesting solutions but they cannot compete with the market share 08:24.560 --> 08:32.240 that they have and the capital, etc. So let's ignore this European companies and competitors. 08:32.320 --> 08:38.160 So this whole idea of competitiveness which is so enshrined into the European policy making 08:38.160 --> 08:44.880 in a way discouraged, supporting of challenges and investing in challenges even if they don't 08:44.880 --> 08:52.160 succeed in the market just for levelling the play field for creating competition because there is 08:52.160 --> 08:57.200 a very distinct difference between competitiveness and competition. Competition, 08:58.160 --> 09:03.040 new compete with each other, it's what businesses actually don't like and competitiveness means 09:03.040 --> 09:08.400 we are the market leaders we're strong in it and like yeah of course also in the political 09:08.400 --> 09:14.160 sphere there's always like this tendency side with the strong party. If you're doing politics 09:14.160 --> 09:18.800 regardless of your party you always have to follow the the more powerful people in your party 09:18.800 --> 09:25.920 if you want to make a policy career. So this is a big of often, often say political twist that we 09:26.000 --> 09:32.480 have to challenge when we want to change the funding infrastructure for open source and last but 09:32.480 --> 09:38.960 not least the question is if we make plans what to focus on, what to work on and I put out 09:40.640 --> 09:47.520 I think three general components, one is the digital market act was created with like 09:47.520 --> 09:53.600 the notion of very large companies gatekeepers and these gatekeepers in the area of 09:53.600 --> 09:59.600 poor platform services are regulated. So what does poor platform services mean you find a definition 09:59.600 --> 10:04.480 in the digital market act it's something like search engines it's something like operating systems 10:04.480 --> 10:11.200 very foundational things a payment services this is poor platform service okay I will very quickly 10:11.200 --> 10:19.040 close down and then we also have class one and two of important products with digital elements 10:19.120 --> 10:25.280 very similar in the CRA this is something we can use and I guess we also need to do something 10:25.280 --> 10:32.960 about like the basic work desktop for instance office productivity software people office 10:32.960 --> 10:39.200 etc yeah operating systems communications and collaborations video telephony solutions 10:39.200 --> 10:46.000 security solutions basic AI and data analysis and cloud infrastructure and specialized applications 10:46.000 --> 10:52.320 so just to give you an example what these kinds of plans could be I have two examples one is 10:52.320 --> 10:57.840 like let's have a European gaming console yeah and think how to build this with open source 10:58.240 --> 11:02.960 and then we can think about the components so this doesn't mean like we pay a lot of money for 11:02.960 --> 11:09.680 for for Linux graphics but this will involve in the course of creating this gaming console 11:09.760 --> 11:16.320 we can also say backstop we already have steam OS so there's something that already exists 11:16.320 --> 11:22.560 and that goes into this direction the other point HPC desktop you know what HPC is HPC means 11:22.560 --> 11:30.080 basically supercomputers all supercomputers are Linux machines and they are these projects with 11:30.080 --> 11:37.360 400 million euros spent on a supercomputer so in this context we can also say we need client equipment 11:37.440 --> 11:43.280 and that would be an HPC desktop computer and if you have like these big funding instruments 11:43.280 --> 11:51.680 with I don't know 2 billion on supercomputers for for Madrid and for Paris then it will be easy 11:51.680 --> 12:00.000 why not get us 10 million in this umbrella for making a Linux desktop specifically for researchers 12:00.000 --> 12:05.840 and this is what we will work on these plans I will get out of the basic document and everything 12:05.840 --> 12:14.720 on the website but this is yeah sorry more or less the preview sorry yeah if I took too much time that was