The Register’s Liam Proven reports from Open Source Summit Europe 2026, where digital sovereignty dominated but the useful content was practical: plans, targets and metrics for putting open source to work in the public sector. Keynote speakers the Linux Foundation’s Nithya Ruff and RISE’s Johan Linaker stressed the issue is global, reaching ‘from Canada, to Sierra Leone, to Trinidad and Tobago’. Talks covered OSS supply-chain security and OpenSSF due-diligence catalogs such as CRABFOSC for EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance — reporting duties began in September ahead of the main requirements in December 2027 — plus the EU’s 2026 OSOR report covering Ukraine’s Diaa and Switzerland’s EMBAG law. Japan’s IPA presented a Japan-Type OSS Model after surveying hundreds of companies in seven countries and more than 30,000 GitHub repositories, finding many organisations talk about open source but few do it. Dr Dawn Foster covered Linux Foundation OSPO value metrics and CHAOSS guidance. Berlin’s sovereignty strategy, run with PwC, targets 70% of administrative-workstation software being open source by 2032, and SUSE’s Emiel Brok explained the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework’s SEAL scale.
Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work
The Register's Liam Proven reports from Open Source Summit Europe 2026, where digital sovereignty dominated but the useful content was practical: plans, targets and metrics for putting open source to work in the public sector. Keynote speakers the Linux Foundation's Nithya Ruff and RISE's Johan Linaker stressed the issue is global, reaching 'from Canada, to Sierra Leone, to Trinidad and Tobago'. Talks covered OSS supply-chain security and OpenSSF due-diligence catalogs such as CRABFOSC for EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance — reporting duties began in September ahead of the main requirements in December 2027 — plus the EU's 2026 OSOR report covering Ukraine's Diaa and Switzerland's EMBAG law. Japan's IPA presented a Japan-Type OSS Model after surveying hundreds of companies in seven countries and more than 30,000 GitHub repositories, finding many organisations talk about open source but few do it. Dr Dawn Foster covered Linux Foundation OSPO value metrics and CHAOSS guidance. Berlin's sovereignty strategy, run with PwC, targets 70% of administrative-workstation software being open source by 2032, and SUSE's Emiel Brok explained the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework's SEAL scale.
Source: The Register