The *upcoming 10 & 11 of May in Brussels* will be the first
international workshop of FLOSSWorld with participation from all
consortium partners (17 in all), additional participants from their
countries, and most likely, observers from the organisations listed as
having provided letters of support to the FLOSSWorld project. Registered
FLOSSWorld Observers will also participate, and a limited number of
places may be available to the general public. For this workshop
participation from EU governments, universities, business associations
and the European Commission have been be solicited.
The main topics are:
*Study of human capacity building / skills development in open source
developer communities*
*Study of inter-regional differences in software projects*
*Study of government usage/attitudes to open source and open
standards/interoperability*
You are cordially invited to address local issues relating to these
themes in discussing the regional workshop findings. Additional topics
may be raised by the working groups, including that of gender and the
role of women in open source communities. Workshops will last two days,
and will involve between 50-70 persons using presentations, round tables
and plenary debate talks.
*International Workshop Free registration at:
**http://www.flossworld.org/conf2/*