I will join a panel about Open Source strategic issues in Rome on october 28th, aiming at bringing back to my home country some significant experiences and lessons learned in many years of Free Software and Open Source Software (FOSS) activity in France.

I do believe that Italy has an economic structure that could really benefit from a vigorous adoption of FOSS, as it is in this very moment happening in other countries that are not so far, like France and Spain.

Yet, the public sector has an essential role to play in converting this high potential into a concrete reality, and I will be happy to learn whether things are finally changing back home.

There have been many disparate experiments worldwide in building higher education diplomas offering some form of specialization in Free and Open Source Software over the last years.

We are many to believe that it is time to bring all academics having worked in this area together to build together a Free and Open Source Software curriculum schema for higher education in IT. It will be a long lasting effort, and the first significant step will be the FOSS Curriculum event in Paris, in the framework of the Open World Forum.

The following call for comments and contribution details the scope of this action.

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