[Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 11:50:55 PDT 2023


Thanks for setting that up, can we add it to the website ad an event or
news item? That way it can be shared on social media and email lists.

The missing voice on this discussion (and osgeo in general) is the small
and medium business owners.

A whole bunch of the concern is the impact on small and medium business
owners. We have not yet heard from our service providers and sponsors on
this subject.

As a North American I have concern(s) and care - but am not sure how to
support this process.

Jody

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 3:39 AM Angelos Tzotsos via Board <
board at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are planning to make a community meeting about the EU CRA, so we can
> discuss our action plan forward.
>
> The meeting is planned for Tuesday 22 Aug 13:00 UTC in our Jitsi room:
> https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 7/22/23 00:20, Adam Steer via Discuss wrote:
> > Hi OSGeo
> >
> > The European Union's proposed Cyber Resilience Act has just come to the
> > attention of many non-EU folks as a potential dampener on open source
> > geospatial software development and usage. A summary from GitHub is here
> > (thanks Marco Bernasocchi for pointing it out):
> >
> >
> https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/
> >
> >   It's being discussed in the OSGeo board, and some responses from other
> > open source organisations have already been made, for example:
> >
> https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/open-letter-european-commission-cyber-resilience-act
> >
> > It would be great to hear your thoughts on the impact of the proposed
> > legislation on open source geospatial software development across the
> > globe  - so we can form an appropriate community response as soon as
> > possible. What are your thoughts?
> >
> > Yes, we're late in gettung our attention on to this. Hopefully not too
> > late.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Adam Steer
> > OSGeo director
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss mailing list
> > Discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> President
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>
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