European Companies

Twinning between Europe and Asia

FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam organizes dedicated matchmaking and twinning for your FOSS-company, which brings you together with selected small to medium-sized IT-enterprises (SMEs) from Vietnam. Your developers/FOSS experts have the opportunity to collaborate on joint software projects, thereby boosting the sharing of technological know-how, the exchange of best practices and development of joint business.

  • For more information on twinning and matchmaking opportunities, see here.
  • For a list of potential twinning partners in Europe and Vietnam see the list of registered companies.

Results and Resources of past twinning events

For a record of past matchmaking and twinning events, see the two sections on:

You will find on these section a wealth of information on results, agenda and profiles of participating companies as well as additional material such as:

  • Information and training on multicultural project management, By Barabra Cimpa (here)
  • An introduction of the Hanoi Linux User Group (HLUG) and discussion about the relationship between communities and companies in the FOSS world in Europe and Vietnam, by David Tremblay, LUG (here)
  • A presentation by David Axmark, CoFounder of MySQLon How-MySQL-got started and potential cooperation in Vietnam (here)
  • A presentation by Mr. Le Hong Ha, Vice President of the Vietnam Association for Information Processing on the topic of "What is the situation/environment of/for Vietnamese SMEs working in the field of IT especially FOSS (challenges, constraints, problems etc.)". (here).

Also make sure to download the High Level Training Material of FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam covering key issues such as "Open Source Regulations, Licensing and Business Models, Open Source Development & European Best Practice as well as design of Training activities".