https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/a4b282f0-5568-405e-abf1-97990222d6a4 The Swiss Parliament passed a new law in March 2023 that requires federal government agencies to publish all government software under an open source license. The new "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfillment of Official Tasks" (EMBAG, Article 9 "Open Source Software" https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/fga/2023/787/de) went into effect on January 1, 2024. It is the result of 12 years of lobbying by the Swiss Parliamentary Group for Digital Sustainability to ensure that the law not only allows governments to publish open source code, but actually makes it the default process (https://www.ti8m.com/en/blog/open-source-gesetz-schweiz). The presentation will outline the history of the legislative process and present the current open source activities of Swiss government agencies, also in the context of the ongoing political debate on digital sovereignty (https://www.inside-it.ch/lasst-uns-die-digitale-souveraenitaet-nicht-verschlafen). The subsequent discussion will focus on what the Swiss government should do next to successfully implement the law. Suggestions such as establishing an Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) like the EU and launching a national Open Source development platform like OpenCoDE in Germany are on the table. More input is needed since Switzerland lacks a strong open source culture compared to other European countries. Speakers: Matthias Stürmer, Rika Koch, Track: Legal and Policy Issues devroom, Room: UA2.220 (Guillissen), When: Saturday 3 February 2024, 17:40–18:10 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Presentation (slides), Article by Matthias Stürmer: Open Source by default (slides), Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “The new Swiss Open Source Law: "Public Money Public Code" by default” by Matthias Stürmer, Rika Koch, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/ua2220/fosdem-2024-3401-the-new-swiss-open-source-law-public-money-public-code-by-default.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:01:31 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/a4b282f0-5568-405e-abf1-97990222d6a4 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.