Charles-H. Schulz

Charles-H. is a French technologist and a Free Software and Open Standards advocate. A long-time contributor to free and open source projects and co-founder of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice, he is considered a renowned expert promoting the adoption of the OpenDocument Format standard. A former director of the OASIS Consortium, he has engaged in various digital public policy debates at the European level. After 6 years working in national security and cybersecurity for the French government, Charles is now in charge of the strategy and partnerships for Vates, a French open source virtualization software vendor.

Talk at SFSCON

• Edition 2024
  Let’s all get over the CRA!

  how I stopped worrying about the consequences of the CRA for Open Source innovation in Europe and moved to something else
• Edition 2023
  Why open digital infrastructure matters

  hardware & software infrastructure for Europe
• Edition 2022
  Infrastructure should not be about monoculture

  Because monoculture is just as bad as monopoly
• Edition 2021
  Securing containers through open source virtualization

  You can have your cake and eat it too
• Edition 2020
  Regulation is good – Developing software is even better!

  The importance for strategic IT infrastructure development in Europe
• Edition 2015
  Government IT

  Information security and free software in France
• Edition 2012
  SMART Office

  Comp(l)eting the Office + Outlook story on Windows

Workshop at SFSCON

• Edition 2013
  Migration to Libre Office in the public sector

  The Document Foundation's Value Proposition