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SUMMARY:Flipping Open Source's Evidence Gap in Public Procurement - Lukas 
 Kahwe Smith
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DESCRIPTION:Europe has decided open source is strategic to its digital sov
 ereignty. The CRA\, NIS2\, DORA\, the AI Act and the 2026 Cloud and AI Dev
 elopment Act all lean on it\, and the Commission's revised Open Source Str
 ategy names software catalogues directly. Yet in procurement\, open source
  still loses — not on merit\, but on paperwork. A proprietary vendor arr
 ives with a pre-packaged evidence apparatus: one sales contact\, reference
  lists\, compliance and accessibility documentation. The equivalent open s
 ource project arrives with a repository\, a README and other scattered res
 ources. Buyers who would choose it cannot easily establish what exists\, w
 hat meets their criteria\, or who can deliver — so decisions collapse to
  price.\n\nThis talk presents the instrument to flip that asymmetry: a dec
 entralised evidence layer built on publiccode.yml — the standard already
  mandatory in Italy\, live on Germany's openCode.de\, and required by the 
 EU Open Source Catalogue (640+ projects). Evidence of supply chains\, upst
 ream contributions and real-world use becomes verifiable and queryable: no
  central gatekeeper\, no imposed scores. What the evidence means stays wit
 h buyers and their jurisdictions.\n\nThe result is something no fragmented
  proprietary landscape can offer: one queryable\, openly contributed evide
 nce commons. You will leave knowing what already runs today\, what is miss
 ing\, and how to engage — as a vendor\, a public buyer\, or a catalogue 
 operator — without waiting for Brussels to finish.
LOCATION:Digital Sovereignty\, public sector and OSPO
URL:https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/7TPLYU
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