Less than 2 weeks until RIPE. Below is the agenda for the Open Source WG Session. The session will be on Thursday afternoon, just after lunch. Hope to see you all in Rotterdam. Open Source WG Chairs A. Administrative Matters - finalize agenda - approval of minutes from previous WG meeting(s) - review of action list B. NGI-Zero: EU-funded framework for supporting FLOSS projects Niall O'Reilly, Tolerant Networks Ltd This presentation will alert participants to the EU Commission's New Generation Internet (NGI), to NGI funding opportunities, and to project support available from the NGI-Zero coalition led by the NLnet Foundation. Tolerant Networks Ltd is a partner in NGI-Zero. C. From Peering Manager features to standalone library Guillaume Mazoyer, Peering Manager Lead Developer During the process of writing the integration code for Peering Manager and IX-API, an opportunity arose to extract the relevant features from the main code base and create a separate library. As a result, pyixapi was born, providing a user-friendly and straightforward interface for interacting with IX-API endpoints. D. BIRD 2 - Overview and Future Outlook Ondřej Zajíček, CZ.NIC Five years ago, we released BIRD 2, the major overhaul of BIRD Internet Routing Daemon. I will recapitulate recent BIRD development, present new interesting features, and discuss the future outlook of BIRD development, including the upcoming multithreaded BIRD 3. E. Update from Route Server Support Foundation Niels Raijer, Chairman RSSF Why RSSF is there, the technological advances in OpenBGPD and rpki-client and a surprising way in which we received some funding. F. Lightning Talks These are short updates on different relevant OpenSource projects. They should be 5 mins (preferably) with a maximum of 10 mins(if space allows). No formal submission required ahead of RIPE, but please send a short message to opensource-wg-chairs@ripe.net by noon on Tuesday during the RIPE if you want to present an update. Selection of talks are done on Tuesday afternoon.