Open World Forum is only a few weeks away and once again The 451 Group will be represented at the event in Paris.

On the morning of September 30 I’ll be taking part in the Open Analysts summit: The 2010 barometer of Open Source, along with Roberto Galoppini, James Governor from Red Monk, Jeffrey Hammond from Forrester Research and Mathieu Poujol from Pierre Audouin Conseil.

“By attending this first ever Open Source Analysts Summit, you will be able to debate with the major analysts today about their vision of how Open Source is evolving in 2010, and their predictions for the future. This panel discussion will explore trends in the adoption of Open Source by both customers and vendors, as well as how business strategies and procurement policies fit into the picture.”

Then in the afternoon I’ll be taking part in the FLOSS Visions track, which includes a series of presentations on a variety of topics of interest to free and open source software. I’ll be presenting on the topic of regional variations in attitudes to open source adoption.

“The objective of this presentation is to discuss the different attitudes to FOSS adoption in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. It will include the results and a discussion of The 451 Group’s survey of 1,700 open source users and comparison of the results from different regions.”

Day one also includes a keynote on the state of open source in 2010, a roundtable on the challenges of open communities, and keynote presentations from Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation; Walter Bender, MIT Media Lab and SugarLabs Founder; Dominique Vernay, Chairman, Systematic; and Franz Meyer, COO EMEA, Red Hat.

Day two, October 1, begins with a keynote and roundtable discussion on the topic of open democracy before breaking in to a number of tracks covering software as a commons, interoperability between forges, marketing, the video industry, open cloud, diversity, the open innovation awards, and open technologies for the future.

The session on how corporations benefit from communities looks interesting, although it is entirely in French. Last year they had those headsets so you could pretend to be at the United Nations, so I may give that a go if they are available, or the session on best practices in the governance of open source also looks good.

The event concludes with the conclusion of the open BRIC summit, presented by Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, vice-president at Red Hat, and the presentation of the 2020 FLOSS roadmap from Jean-Pierre Laisne, chairman of OW2, and open source strategy director at Bull.