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Mirko Boehm

Open Source

Free and Open Source Software contributor. Founder and partner, Endocode (now Hoverture). Director, Linux System Definition, Open Invention Network. KDE contributor since 1997 (including several years on the KDE e.V. board). Visiting lecturer and researcher at the Technical University of Berlin. Qt-certified specialist and trainer. Openforum Academy fellow. Berlin, Germany.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Continuous Compliance - The Introduction, with OpenChain and Quartermaster

Malcolm Bain, Andrew Katz and I presented a workshop at FOSS Backstage 2018 (also the first FOSS Backstage event) in Berlin in June 2018. We presented an introduction to OpenChain and a few use cases, and a introduction and demonstration of Quartermaster.

Mirko Boehm

Last updated on Feb 2, 2023

Open Source und Smart Services - Chancen durch Standards und Normen

The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology holds a workshop series on “Open Source and Smart Services”. I was invited to present the findings of our paper “Standard Setting Organisations and Open Source Communities - Partners or Competitors?

Mirko Boehm

Last updated on May 16, 2019

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Recent Posts

Video conferencing at scale - A practical guide

We are video conferencing day-in day-out now. Small conversations via video call are a regular part of remote work. In times of restricted travel and polluted air, this is excellent. It also works pretty well for two or three people. With 6, it gets difficult to manage who speaks. Above ten, things get tricky both from a technical as well as a social perspective. We have all been in this call where there was an echo that blew everybodies ear’s off, except for that one person that did not hear it (it was him). I have collected a few technical tips and practises over time that may help make video conferences easier and more enjoyable.

Mirko Boehm

Last updated on Mar 25, 2020 9 min read

OpenForum Academy Workshop - Exploring Modern Dimensions of Openness

The OpenForum Academy held its second 2019 workshop in Brussels this week. OpenForum Academy is a European-based independent think tank which explains the merits of openness in computing to policy makers, industry and communities across Europe. This workshop series aims at being a forum for practitioners, academics and policy makers to collaborate on various topics of openness and freedom. It is organized by OpenForum Europe, enabling it to bridge between the abstract academic world and policy discussions at the European Commissions. We set out to explore focus topics to answer current challenges to openness that the academy will develop insights and recommendations for. These topics will shape the work of OpenForum Academy for the near future.

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Last updated on Sep 17, 2019 5 min read

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Featured Publications

Knut Blind, Mirko Boehm

November, 2019 Publications Office of the European Union

The Relationship Between Open Source Software and Standard Setting

Standards and open source development are both processes widely adopted in the ICT industry to develop innovative technologies and drive their adoption in the market. Innovators and policy makers assume that a closer collaboration between standards and open source software development would be mutually beneficial. The interaction between the two is however not yet fully understood, especially with regard to how the intellectual property regimes applied by these organisations influence their ability and motivation to cooperate. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the interaction between standard development organisations (SDOs) and open source software (OSS) communities. The analysis is based on 20 case studies, a survey of stakeholders involved in SDOs and OSS communities, an expert workshop, and a comprehensive review of the literature. In the analysis, we differentiate according to the governance of SDOs and OSS communities, but also considering the involved stakeholders and subject matter. We discuss the preconditions, forms and impacts of collaboration, before we eventually focus on the complementarity of the different Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regimes. Finally, we derive policy recommendations addressing SDOs, OSS communities and policy makers.

Recent Publications

Mirko Boehm (2019). The emergence of governance norms in volunteer-driven open source communities. Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society.

PDF Cite Project

Mirko Boehm, Davis Eisape (2019). Normungs- und Standardisierungsorganisationen und Open Source Communities – Partner oder Wettbewerber. Normen und Standards für die digitale Transformation, Mangelsdorf/Weiler (Editors), de Gruyter Oldenburg.

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Projects

The Relationship Between Open Source Software and Standard Setting

The Joint Research Center of the European Commission commission a study on The Interaction between Open Source Software and FRAND licensing in Standardisation. The study is performed by Knut Blind and me.

shelldoc

Execute Unix shell commands in Markdown documentation as tests.

The FLOSSary

A glossary af Free and Open Source Software related terminology

Teaching

I teach the course Open Source and Intellectual Property in the Digital Society at the Chair of Innovation Economics of the Technical University of Berlin. The course is open to students with an economics, computer science or engineering background. It is thought in English.

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