Open Source & EU Policy
CRA overview for everyone, including projects and smaller organisations
<p>This talk is for a broad audience, including projects and smaller organisations that don't have compliance and policy staff. The primary goal is to give people information so that they can check if they have CRA obligations, and what compliance work might be required. It will also show what projects can do voluntarily to make compliance work easier for others that want to use their software.</p>
<p>The secondary goal of this session is to enable more people to participate or provide feedback. Eclipse Foundation and other entities of the FOSS ecosystem are creating educational materials and compliance tools. To ensure that such tools are useful for the entire ecosystem, feedback is needed from all types of projects and organisations. Do the current information resources meet your needs? What more would be useful?</p>
Additional information
| Live Stream | https://live.fosdem.org/watch/ua2118 |
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| Type | devroom |
| Language | English |
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<p>A Blueprint for Trusted European Digital Services</p> <p>The European Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework (Version 1.2.1, Oct. 2025) is a critical blueprint for defining, assessing, and ensuring the sovereignty of cloud services used within the European Union. Born from initiatives like Gaia-X, CIGREF's Trusted Cloud Referential, and EU legislation (NIS2, DORA), this framework supplements security requirements with sovereignty-specific safeguards to reduce dependency on non-EU actors ...
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