Training Material

The material used for the FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam Training on innovative business models and EU regulations is made available as open content (information on licenses see below) for trainers from Vietnamese intermediaries as well as to other interested parties.

Download below 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".

The Training Material (slides as PDF and ODT files) covers the following topics:

• Introduction to FOSS, Definition, History and Culture  
• Intellectual property and  FOSS-licenses, copyright 
• FOSS Communities 
• FOSS Usage Models 
• FOSS and Business Models 
• FOSS and Innovation strategies, open innovation 
• Barriers to open source adoption 
• Introducing open-source best-practices criteria 
• Interoperable Open-Source-Based Architecture, Open Standards 
• FOSS Forges
• Why and how to build from the source code 
• Open-source version control with Subversion 

The material in slide-format (PDF, odt) can be downloaded both in English and Vietnamese language.

• Download of Training PDF material (in English)
• Download of Training PDF material (in Vietnamese)
• Download of Training ODT material (in English)
• Download of Training ODT material (in Vietnamese)

This training content has been built by Christophe Ney and François Letellier, two European experts in the field of open source technical regulations who were in charge of the Training program (see trainers biographies) in cooperation with Vietnamese partners and participants.

You can also download the Training Materials CD rar file:

http://netnam.vn/foss-bridge/uploads/Main/TrainingMaterial.iso .

Note on material licensing

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Please note that this license requires attribution of all authors in future versions, and should include the following attribution: "Based on training material created by François Letellier and Christophe Ney for 'FOSS Bridge EU-Vietnam - Joint Business through Free and Open Source Software', an ASIA-Invest programme implemented by InWEnt - Capacity Building International of Germany, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) of France and the Institute of Information Technology of Vietnam (IOIT) with financial support by the European Commission and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ). Reference number of original training material: [TRM1702400700]. Under the license, the copyright holders do not endorse any future versions of the material or the use of the work."

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