The European Commission Directorate General for Informatics (IDABC) organises its Open Source Software Event 2008 on 20 October in Málaga, in the Spanish Region of Andalucía. It is organised with the regions of Andalucía and Extremadura in parallel with the Open Source World Conference. It is the fifth edition of this event and it is estimated a total participation beyond 6,000 attendees.

The event will be the official launch of the Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations, actively supporting the sharing of OSS-based eGovernment applications and experiences across Europe.

The OSOR.eu platform, and in particular the OSOR.eu Repository and the OSOR.eu Forge are aimed to support and encourage the re-use of publicly-financed Open Source Software developments that are of particular use for public administrations in Europe.

The day’s sessions are dedicated to presenting:

• The OSOR Project, the platform and services.
•  A small panel of users of the OSOR and interactions with other European Commission OS related projects.

One separate session is dedicated to a workshop on public procurement and open source software; this workshop aims at presenting and discussing the OSOR Guideline on public procurement and FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).

You can register to the event (free of charge) until the 12/09/2008.