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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Hoj,</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">v Franciji se stvari premikajo glede FOSS in dostopnostjo znanosti – zanimivi časi :)</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Mogoče bi lahko ponucal kdaj kot inspiracijo za našo nacionalno strategijo kdaj.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">lp,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Matija</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">---------- Nuntius praecox ----------</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">In rem: Breaking news: Software and Software Heritage in the new National Plan for Open Science in France</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Die: 8. 07. 21 et hora 10:03</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Scripsit: Roberto Di Cosmo <roberto@dicosmo.org></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Dear all,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> I am delighted to share great breaking news: yesterday afternoon the</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">French Ministry of Research unveiled the second multi-annual National Plan</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">for Open Science in France, that squarely puts software on a par with</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">publications and data in the Open Science framework, announcing a number of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">measures designed to open research software and better recognize software</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">development in research.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><br /></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">The official document is available online from the website of the French</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Ministry of Research</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><https://cache.media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/file/science_ouverte/20/9/MEN_brochure_PNSO_web_1415209.pdf></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><br /></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Since this is currently only available in French (an English version will</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">be available in the next days/weeks from the Ministry of Resarch dedicated</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">page</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid159131/le-plan-national-pour-la-science-ouverte-2021-2024-vers-une-generalisation-de-la-science-ouverte-en-france.html>),</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">here are some highlights of the measures that you might find the most</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">interesting:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> - a clear recommendation to make research software available under an</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> open source licence, unless there are clear strong reasons not to do so;</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> quoting from the text itself (quick and dirty translation):</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> - "*Making software source code available, with the possibility of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> modifying it, reusing it and disseminating it, is essential to allow the</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> reproducibility of scientific results and support the sharing</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">and creation</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> of knowledge, in a logic of Open Science*." ...</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> - "*Hence, the distribution of software as free software, that is to</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> say published under one of the licenses recognized by the Free Software</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, will be privileged, in</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> compliance with legal* *constraints*."</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> - the creation of a high level expert group dedicated to research</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> software in the National Committee for Open Science</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> - the objective to provide better recognition of software development in</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> career evaluation for researchers and engineers</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> - a renewed and strengthened official support of Software Heritage, with</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> a recommendation to archive in it *all research software [1] *</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><br /></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">This is the result of a long, steady effort to raise awareness of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">these issues, in collaboration with many dedicated people and</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">organisations, like it was the case for the Paris Call on Software Source</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">code <https://en.unesco.org/foss/paris-call-software-source-code></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">(published in February 2019, with contributions from some of the members of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">this list).</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">And to the best of my knowledge, it is the first time that such an organic,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">clearly designed strategy for (open source) software in research is laid</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">out in an official government document: I hope this may serve as a</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">reference for similar initiatives in other countries, and will be more than</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">happy to help if/when such initiatives get started.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">All the best</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Roberto</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">[1] updated, actionable instructions are now available at</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">https://www.softwareheritage.org/howto-archive-and-reference-your-code/ (for</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">french researchers, an updated and streamlined metadata deposit workflow</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">with HAL is coming soon)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Computer Science Professor</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"> (on leave at Inria from IRIF/Université de Paris)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Director</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Software Heritage E-mail : roberto@dicosmo.org</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">INRIA Web : http://www.dicosmo.org</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Bureau C328 Twitter : http://twitter.com/rdicosmo</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">2, Rue Simone Iff Tel : +33 1 80 49 44 42</p>
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