Building a FOSS Bridge between Vietnam and Europe

- Do you want to team up with a European FOSS-company for joint business?
- Do you want to develop joint software projects based on FOSS?
- Are you interested in constructing a common European-Vietnamese FOSS code?

The project has the main goal of strengthening Southeast Asian software industries and boosting cooperation with Europe through innovative collaboration on free and open source software (FOSS) and business development. This is achieved through three specific objectives:

• Enable intermediaries of the Vietnamese IT-sector to spread key knowledge on how to make business with free and open source software.
• Foster a Vietnamese software industry capable to provide localized FOSS applications and services to government and businesses – with SMEs serving as a national driver of technological innovation.
• Develop business partnerships between software players in Asia and Europe in order to grow mutual business and foster regional and international networking.

First FOSS Bridge workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov. 12-16, 2007

Objectives of the workshop

This first workshop has the aim to precise the areas of possible collaboration that have been identified during  the online matchmaking process and to set up detailed collaboration plans.

 At the end of the workshop, we will have a detailed list of groups of Vietnamese and European partners. For each of those groups, we will have a collaboration plan, with a detailed agenda, and mentioning precise objectives at every step of the collaboration plan.

First FOSS Bridge workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov. 12-16, 2007

Objectives of the workshop

This first workshop has the aim to precise the areas of possible collaboration that have been identified during  the online matchmaking process.

At the end of the workshop, we will have a detailed list of Vietnamese partner(s) for each European company. For each of those groups, we will have a collaboration concept, including steps and deadlines for this collaboration.