OW2con'23 Program
Please discover OW2con'23 main program below and view the program of the parallel Breakout Sessions
COMMUNITY & GOVERNANCE
OPENING KEYNOTES
OPEN DATA
AWARDS CEREMONY
ROUND TABLE
CLOUD & SECURITY
NEW MEMBERS
FINANCING OPEN SOURCE
OW2 CUSTOMER CASES
STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGIES
DIGITAL COMMONS
Main stage
Wednesday, 14
09:30
☕ Welcome coffee
10:00
Deleted User, Pierre-Yves Gibello
Event opening
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Pierre-Yves Gibello
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Pierre-Yves Gibello is OW2 CEO since 2022. He has been involved in IT for 30 years, including 25 in open-source: R&D engineer at Bull (now Atos) then french Inria research center, OSS projects contributor, teacher at Polytech engineer school, expert for french public innovation agency OSEO, entrepreneur and board member at OW2 for 10 years, then initiator of a research/industry partnership between french UGA university and Linagora, he finally joined OW2 in 2019 as a research engineer.
10:10
Philippe Latombe, Member of French Parliament
Keynote by Philippe Latombe
Philippe Latombe, Member of French Parliament
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Philippe Latombe, Député de la Vendée, a French Atlantic border area, is attached to the main values behind Open Source Software. Member of the Law Commission, he is particularly involved in issues relating to digital law and pleads for a balance between technological developments and the protection of individual rights. He was the rapporteur for the parliamentary mission “Building and promoting national and European digital sovereignty” and also plans to implement a Digital Charter both at national and European levels.
10:40
Keynote by Dr Wolfgang Gehring
Dr. Wolfgang Gehring
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Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within the Mercedes-Benz AG and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.
11:10
Jean-Luc Dorel, Programme Officer, European Commission
Keynote by Jean-Luc Dorel
Jean-Luc Dorel, Programme Officer, European Commission
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Jean-Luc works for DG CONNECT since 2005. Since 2016 he is working on Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, an initiative from the European Commission. Before he was project officer in e-infrastructure unit for 9 years notably in charge of GÉANT. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Cisco. Jean-Luc has a Doctorate in Computer Science.
11:40
Michiel Leenaars, Dir. of Strategy, NLNet
Technology is everywhere, and is reshaping how we live, work, (get) entertain(ed), learn and create. But not all technology is equal, nor beneficial. As societies we have the choice to let ourselves be dragged around by the maelstrom of venture capital and its continuous flood of (wannabe) big tech and unicorns that like to move fast and break things or to use the potential of digital commons to empower everyone.
NLnet Foundation is one of the most active grantmakers in the field of the open internet and of technology commons. NLnet is a public benefit organisation that was instrumental in taking the internet out of the United States and bringing it to Europe in the eighties, making it one of the oldest grant making philanthropies in the space of digital commons in the world altogether. Together with a growing coalition of partners, and supported by donations from individuals, foundations, public sector organisations, companies and institutions like the European Commission, it has been a strong advocate for building a free and open technology stack from top to bottom. NLnet has been an active proponent of the European Next Generation Internet initiative, in particular through the various NGI Zero programmes.
In this talk, Michiel Leenaars (director of strategy at NLnet) will take a quick recap of history and give a high level overview of the digital commons landscape from the point of view of a small and flat country partially below sea level. He will also give an update on the hundreds of recent and ongoing efforts funded by NLnet creating advanced FOSS building blocks from open hardware e-ink screens and mobile networks to social media tools, from video conferencing tools to compartementalised operating systems and secure digital payment methods.
Michiel Leenaars, Dir. of Strategy, NLNet
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Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at NLnet. He is responsible for defining and initating short term and long term policies and managing strategic activities within the NLnet foundation, and acts as its spokesperson to the press and society. He currently also leads NGIZero, a family of research programmes including NGI0 Entrust and NGI0 Core, part of the Next Generation Internet initiative. He joined the management team of NLnet in 2007. He has a background in Physics at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at Tilburg University.
He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as The Commons Conservancy (chair), OpenDoc Society (vice-chair), SCION Foundation (Board of Advisors), SIDN Fund (Board of Advisors), and Petities.nl foundation (treasurer). He is co-founder and board member of Technology Commons Trust. In 2022 he was awarded the NLUUG Lifetime Achievement Award.
12:00
🍽 Lunch break
13:30
Open Food Facts, the free food products database, celebrated its 10 years in 2022, with a brand new app, more than 2.5 millions products in its database, 200+ more reuses of the data, and first plan participation in impacting projects like the Nutri-Score and the Eco-Score. In this talk we will discuss running and developing this Open Data Common: what are the challenges at stake; how the project weaves together public at large, food manufacturers, re-using applications, scientists, public agencies, private foundations and the community of contributors; how we try hard to be as open and transparent as possible.
Alex Garel
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Alex is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.
13:50
Nicolas Vivant, City of Echirolles
For several years now, the city of Échirolles has been engaged in an original and innovative digital transformation. A proactive and structured approach to serve the inhabitants, based on free software and open data.
Nicolas Vivant, City of Echirolles
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After 20 years in the private sector, Nicolas Vivant held various IT management positions in local authorities in the Grenoble region. Since 2009, he has specialized in the digital transformation of public services based on free software.
14:10
Alexis Kauffmann, Ministry of Education
"Supporting the development of digital commons" is a strong axis of the new Digital Strategy for Education 2023-2027 of the French Ministry of National Education, which uses a lot of open source software but also contributes to it.
Sovereign and sustainable, the Forge of Digital Commons is one of the projects of this strategy.
France has nearly a million teachers. Among them, there are teachers developing Open Source softwares but there are also more and more teachers using text format (markdown, LaTeX...) to create and share educational content. Yesterday all these projects were scattered over multiple forges including Microsoft's GitHub which is difficult to trust in the long term. Hhosted and managed by the ministry, the "Forge of Digital Educational Commons" project aims to pool all these projects on a dedicated GitLab instance and invite the school community to participate.
Alexis Kauffmann, Ministry of Education
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Math teacher, founder of Framasoft, Open Education project manager at the French Ministry of Education.
14:30
https://onyxia.sh is a project developed by the French public service that aims at providing a state-of-the-art working environment for data teams.
It makes it possible to build sovereign dataciense oriented cloud, and break free from hyperscaler services (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud,Microsoft Azure, ect.) Onyxia enables to pool computing resources without relying on big tech closed-source software.
Joseph Garrone, DINUM
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https://github.com/garronej
Full-time open sourcer in the French public service, I'm in charge of pushing for wider use of free and open-source software in the French administrations.
I am the lead developer of https://onyxia.sh https://keycloakify.dev, https://denoify.land, and many other open source projects.
14:50
The Open Data Hub is a cross-border Open Source digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes in developing digital solutions based on real data. It collects data from different data providers and shares the data through one platform to easily collect, combine and visualise data from different sources.
The presentation consists of a general introduction about what the Open Data Hub is, the team behind it and how it can help developers and organisations to solve the "cold start" problem with a collection from mobility data such as e-charging stations or bike sharing stations to tourism data such as accommodations or events.
Simon Dalvai, NOI Techpark
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Simon Dalvai is a Software Architect at NOI Techpark and works on the Mobility API of the Open Data Hub, an Open Source cross-border digital platform that helps start-ups, companies and research institutes to develop digital solutions based on real data. His passions are Free Software, Open Data and creating Open Source mobile games with Godot Engine and libGDX.
15:10
Julien Paris
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As a developer I only work on open sourced projects. As a profesional I co-founded multi, a digital cooperative. As a citizen I believe open data should be the standard. As a human being I like dogs.
15:30
☕ Coffee break
16:00
XWiki is a FOSS knowledge management solution, and a direct alternative to the Confluence, the wiki part of the Atlassian software suite, along with Jira or Bitbucket. XWiki and Confluence share similarities in their approach, including an extension mechanism and the possibility to write macros in wiki pages, which enables users to create dynamic contents.
Today, following changes in Atlassian's policy when it comes to handling on-premise licenses [1], companies are looking to migrate away from Confluence to limit lock-in and to take back ownership on their data. However, migrating from such complex systems comes with its own set of challenges, both when it comes to the financing of migration tools and the implementation of technical alternatives to functionalities in proprietary software.
In this talk, we will dive into some of the technical aspects that make a migration from complex proprietary tools difficult. We will also look into how we chose to build and finance the development of Open Source migration solutions to make the switch from Confluence to XWiki.
[1] https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/future-pricing/server-pricing/faqs
Clément Aubin
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I'm a passionate web developer working in Open Source for the past 10 years. My main interests relate to how knowledge can be represented efficiently within organization, and how to finance the development of Open Source solutions.
16:20
AICS is the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation that started operating in 2016 with the ambition of aligning Italy with the main European and international partners in the commitment to development. KNOWAGE Labs are developing for AICS a platform that is probably unique in the world and will allow both the Agency and the public to access all the major indicators on the UN Sustainable Development Goals provided by international sources (World Bank, WTO, ILO..) and easily compare them. The solution will allow analysis to start from 3 different touch points: the infographic of SDG goals, the advanced search criteria, and the virtual assistant. Then, a customized dashboard will be provided to the user, allowing to further expand the analysis by interacting with charts, maps, tables, etc. This talk will show the state of art of the solution, highlighting objectives and expected results of the project, but also the new developments of KNOWAGE related to AI.
Filippo Casetta
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Filippo Casetta is a Data Specialist and BI Consultant in Engineering Ingegneria Informatica. He specialized in the Business Intelligence projects with Knowage, dealing with all the aspects, from Data Modeling to Data Visualization. In particular, he focuses on Data Visualization, exploring new libraries and new opportunities.
During these years, he has worked in ambitious projects on healthcare sector for Italian public health authorities.
He got Master’s Degree in Data Science at University of Bologna with a thesis on the neural networks and deep learning.
16:40
Why Ubuntu server at Orange France? Community Opensource is more Friendly and a fertile ground for Agile DevOps and Cloud transition => Mandatory to deploy Community Opensources Solutions at Orange France As Community Open source calls Community Open source
=> needs to deploy Ubuntu server Benefits : optimise time to market on server Operating system => Building simplier and run faster
How to Share this value with inner source for the whole Orange Group Stream "Federation" at Orange : inner source as a pillar What to share ?
=> First step : hardening How to share ? => Setting up an internal community.
Interaction with Open source Ecosystem
Romain Georges
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Active member of the French FreeBSD (past) Redmine Contributor (past) Today
- Product Owner of Ubuntu Server at Orange France
- Co-Head of Software infrastructure products governance at Orange France
17:00
Christophe Maudoux, Gendarmerie Nationale
LemonLDAP::NG is a free open source full AAA WebSSO solution. It provides global Authentication (Single Sign-On), Authorization (access rules) and Accounting: (access logs).
In cloud environments or DevOps architectures, applications may require other applications API. It means that a web application may need to request some other web applications on behalf of the authenticated users. LemonLDAP::NG provides three ways to do this:
- the Ugly that consists in providing SSO cookie to all protected applications. It is an unsecured method because the SSO cookie can be caught and used everywhere, every time by everyone! NOT RECOMMENDED solution.
- the Bad with the SecureToken Handler. This approach is deprecated. Should be used for specific use cases only.
- and the Good one with the ServiceToken Handler. Since 2.0 version, LL::NG provides a better way to protect API by using limited scope tokens aka ServiceTokens.
I will explain the ServiceToken Handler mechanism and how to implement it during this presentation...
Christophe Maudoux, Gendarmerie Nationale
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Christophe Maudoux graduated from Cnam Networks and Systems Engineering track in 2019, is Part-time Professor at Cnam and ESIEE Paris. Huge LemonLDAP::NG instances administrator at STSISI (French Gendarmerie and Police IT System Department) since 2016, he works on WebSSO engineering and Identity and Access Management (IAM). He is part of the OW2 WebSSO project LemonLDAP::NG core team as maintainer and advanced Perl programmer. Since 2020, Christophe Maudoux has developed a research activity on security anomalies detection by means of machine learning algorithms at Cnam/Cedric Lab.
17:20
Konrad Wawruch, 7bulls, Geir Horn, Univ. of Oslo
Persistent applications will experience variable demands and workloads, and Cloud resources may mitigate performance problems by allowing the necessary resources to be temporarily rented as needed. Cloud deployment decisions must consider not only the best suited providers but also the possibility to use beneficially hardware accelerators like GPUs and FPGAs should these be useful for the application and improve its performance. Since additional application resources may be needed at any time in response to the changed workload, or as a function of the data processed by the application, automated application management is desirable. This talk will cover the versatile MORPHEMIC platform capable of managing and optimizing the application over its lifetime using forecasting to predict and anticipate changes in the execution environment and proactively provide the Cloud resources timely to the application. Additionally, MORPHEMIC can deploy polymorphic application components to the hardware resources best apt for the application tasks at hand. Examples from real world applications will be given to show the benefits of the approach.
Konrad Wawruch, 7bulls
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I am a Polish serial technology entrepreneur, venture builder and investor. I founded 7bulls.com, a group of companies delivering AI and cloud-based innovation globally for finance, retail, pharma, automotive and media. I am responsible for new R&D-based ventures in the 7bulls group as CEO of Accelevation, the group's investment arm. I strongly support partnerships instead of typical supplier-customer relations. I am an early advocate of Open Standards and Open Source, long-term VP of Polish Linux Users Group. My academic background includes leading software development and research for supercomputers and clusters at interdisciplinary research centre (ICM UW), I was an early supporter of FPGA and GPU for HPC in CEE.
Geir Horn, Univ. of Oslo
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Dr. Geir Horn hold s Cand. Scient in cybernetics and a PhD in mathematical machine learning, both from the University of Oslo, and he is now Head of European ICT Projects with the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Geir has previous been Research Director with SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, and has worked with basic research with SIMULA Research Laboratory. Dr. Horn has also been coordinator and principal investigator for 19 European collaborative projects in the fields of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing. Geir is now leading the research group on Scalable Computing within SIRIUS (https://sirius-labs.no/), a Centre for Research driven Innovation at UiO, and coordinating the Horizon 2020 project MORPHEMIC (https://www.morphemic.cloud/). Dr. Horn's research interest are combinatorial and dynamic optimization in stochastic systems, with a special focus on collective intelligence and learning in large scale distributed multi-agent systems.
17:40
OSPO retex and success story from BPCE (Banque Populaire / Caisse d'Epargne banking group) and TOSIT open source CIO association.
Florian Caringi, BPCE
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Après plusieurs postes au sein de la CIB chez Natixis, je suis manager d'une équipe de data ingénieur & d'architecte data au sein d'une entité transverse, Tech Expertise & Solutions, pour le groupe BPCE. Je passe aussi du temps au sein des communautés data & open-source en tant que représentant du groupe BPCE dans l'association TOSIT. Naturellement je suis promoteur du partage car ensemble on est plus fort. Je suis également enseignant au sein de deux écoles (ESCP & ESG) et bénévole en Data au sein du Paris FC.
18:00
The OW2 Best Project Awards recognize and reward "best of breed" projects and successful implementations of OW2 technologies.
18:15
🥳 Free cocktail party
Thursday, 15
08:30
☕ Welcome Coffee
09:10
Koen Vermeulen, Orange Group CIO
Introductory presentation by Orange.
Koen Vermeulen, Orange Group CIO
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to come soon.
09:20
There is an increasing awareness that Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) will be a key artefact in improving software security and resilience. However, an SBOM is only as good as the data which is contained within it. Recently there has been a lot of discussion about what makes a good SBOM and this session will attempt to define this and identify the key parts of the SBOM which the community can help curate and improve to ensure that the benefits of providing and using SBOMs are realised. This session will include a number of practical examples to show what can be revealed when the quality of the data is improved.
Anthony Harrison
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An experienced solution architect and cyber security consultant from the UK delivering and securing mission critical systems.
Has been involved in promoting SBOMs for the past 2 years as a way of supporting vulnerabilty management. Involved in various working groups related to SBOMs including the SBOM Forum, SPDX Defects and OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere initiative.
Has been actively promoting open-source for many years and contributing to an increasing number of projects.
09:40
Nicolas Toussaint, Camille Moulin
Hermine is a new tool in the open source compliance tooling ecosystem. It allows you to manage and implement your Open Source Legal Compliance Policy. It facilitates collaboration inside organisations between lawyers, developers and product owners, as well as between legal teams of different organisations. Organised as an open community, the project also proposes a novel and unique way to collaborate and standardize the understanding and possible interpretations of the open source licenses. This session will explain the philosophy and the approach taken by the Hermine project to tackle the open source policy automation challenge. You will also understand how the project is organised and how you and your company can join the community.
Nicolas Toussaint
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Camille Moulin
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Camille has been an Open Source and Open Standards advocate for quite a few years now; he is currently working as a consultant at Inno³, a French niche consultancy specialized in all things Open from an IP & organisational point of view.
10:00
The OW2 Quick App initiative celebrates its 2nd birthday during this OW2 conference, and this talk will provide you with insights into why the initiative was launched, the actions made over the last 2 years in its support, the friends made, and the lessons learnt along the way. Above all, it drives home the importance of knowing why you are launching an open source project and why people should be interested.
Deleted User
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10:20
During 15 years , I used Free Software, I know what are the several kind of contribution. But what happen when a final user , and sometimes a client, want to have the best software for their needs ? First he used , he reports some bugs, he finance and after ? In this conference, I'll explain what was my position about 2 "OW2" free software ( LemonLDAP::NG and FusionDirectory), from user to contractor inside the project's governance passing by co-forker in one case and how I was received by project's developper and company behind them. I'll explain what the success factor and detailed some point of vigilance on each side.
Antoine Gallavardin, INRAE
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I'm IT Manager inside a National Research Center. I'm an advanced user and contributor of FusionDirectory I use Free Software since Debian 2.1 I was president of a french LUG in Lyon
10:40
☕ Coffee break
11:00
Some of the challenges that open source projects face are organizing member contributions and increasing community involvement. During this talk, we will show you how PrestaShop, one of the leading open source e-commerce software platforms, addressed these challenges and strengthened its community in the last few years.
You will understand how the PrestaShop project evolved in recent years, and how new communication channels helped project members be better informed and get better involved. To go further, the project is working with contributors in a live environment, so discussions and communication can be kept with the community. We will show you how this has eased communication between members.
A new open source team has been put in place. You will better comprehend the influence it has had on the separation of the project from the company. You will also learn, through short use cases and examples, about the maturity of the PrestaShop project and how community pull requests more than doubled in 5 years. In the future, the project would like to open decision-making to the community, which will be discussed during the presentation.
Krystian Podemski, PrestaShop
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Krystian Podemski is Tech Evangelist for the PrestaShop project, being a bridge between a community of developers and the PrestaShop company. Krystian works with merchants of all sizes and expectations, with experienced or newer developers, catering to different skillsets and needs.
PrestaShop being the number one e-commerce platform in Europe, Krystian’s goal is to spread the software’s use further, to train and educate people who want to work with the project.
11:20
This Presentation is about how to contribute to or to launch an Open Source project (also called “outbound open source”) as a company. It aims to describe a process, that can be implemented in companies of any size (large but also small or medium sized organizations). Companies can tailor the proposed procedure to their needs. I.e., depending on the size and situation of the company not all steps need to be implemented. Although the provided information does not guarantee the success of such an endeavor it is proven in use and very helpful for decision-making, launching and maintaining. The procedure and background information is available as a “guide” and on GitHub under https://github.com/todogroup/outbound-oss
Thomas Graf, Siemens
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Thomas Graf is in the software development business for more than 25 years. His focus areas are software architecture, .Net, C#, XAML, user interfaces and software license compliance. For more than 10 years he is responsible for software license compliance in Siemens business units. Thomas is also a member of the central Siemens team for open source software and license compliance.
11:40
Free and open-source licenses are the standard way to make software a digital common good. A digital common good might be governed in various ways depending on the political awareness of the authors. The power to commit changes to the code is usually held by a few hands. Changing the governance is hard: the energy cost to maintain and develop the forked software acts as a barrier to change. We propose a social technology to secure the democratic governance of a digital common. A Democratic Common is a common governed in a democratic way through a constitution. The constitution itself is a common good. The constitution guarantees the sovereignty of the community over the common. The constitution protects the fundamental rights and freedoms of the members of the community. Democratic common governance is based on the rule of law, like any democracy: everything is authorized unless a rule states otherwise. The organization of the common is structured by roles and circles created and destroyed dynamically according to the needs of the common. The common decision process is a battle-field tested governance process, involving the collective intelligence of stakeholders to produce the rules of the common. Babel.coop is a democratic common run by the Babel.coop Constitution, which has been successfully used for a few years in our community. The Babel.coop Constitution will be released into the public domain.
Samir Saidani, Babel.coop
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Samir Saidani is the founder of BABEL.COOP, a community-driven digital cooperative based on a democratic constitution, with no subordinate relationship: all workers are equal in rights. He has both an academic background as a researcher in self-organized system, and an engineer background as an engineer in IT, Robotics and AI. His favorite programming language is Smalltalk. He's practicing Iaido, a martial art, based on the Samurai japanese sword.
12:00
Frédéric Aatz, Microsoft, Jacob Green, OSPO++, Gilles Rouvier, Simon Phipps, François Desmier, MAIF
A global overview of open source governance in large organizations, involving OSPO (Open Source Program Office) representatives, foundations like OSPO Alliance and OSPO++, legal counsels, to put the focus on methodology, success stories, tools, resources, and the overall scope of a full-fledged OSPO approach. This round table will be moderated by Simon Phipps from OSI.
Frédéric Aatz, Microsoft
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Jacob Green, OSPO++
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Jacob Green is an open source strategist, community organizer, and distributed systems builder from Baltimore. Passionate about cites, citizens and Open Source, he works to build institutions with Open Source including OSPOs or Open Source Program Offices. Working to build impactful new organizational structures for organizations to achieve their policy goals, and establish innovative cooperation between government, industry, and academic institutions. He is the co-founder of OSPO++ and the Institutes of Applied Open Source. Jacob has worked with City of Paris on Open Source strategy since 2017.
Gilles Rouvier
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Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP
Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006
For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups.
His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm.
Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies”
President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”).
Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology
AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE
• Intellectual property
• IT contracts
• Open Source
• Artificial intelligence
• Personal data
• Business secrecy
• Web3
DIPLOMAS
• Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990)
• DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992)
• DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994)
• US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002)
• Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994)
LANGUAGES
French and English
Simon Phipps
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to come soon.
François Desmier, MAIF
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Head of open source software edition and community animation.
12:30
🍽 Lunch break
14:00
The Linphone project is an open source solution that was first released in 2001. It started as a personal project done on spare time and it is now a sustainable company employing 20 people (15 of them being software developers). We believe that employing open source software developers is the best way to pay them for their contribution to the open source ecosystem.
We are often asked how an open source company can make money and grow on the long term. We rely on three different sources of income:
- corporate customers, by selling our technology to third parties who wish to integrate it to build their own products. Our revenue has been progressively increased thanks to a business model based on three types of income: licensing, support, and developments on demand. Third party companies are willing to finance the development of your great open source technology if you ask them to!
- public subventions, via the response to a call for expressions of interest and the use of research tax credit (CIR)
- end-users, by selling our solution in a SaaS mode to companies who wish to use it « as is » for their internal needs. This talk will highlight why and how we are reworking our business model with the aim of wearing two hats: technology provider and software editor. This will allow us to obtain a new source of income, that we hope to be recurrent.
Jehan Monnier
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Since 2016, Elisa NECTOUX is working for Belledonne Communications (the editor of the Linphone software) as Sales and Marketing Manager. Her mission is to develop new revenue models and markets to support the growth of the company. Over the years she acquired a strong expertise in the complex needs of unified communication solutions’ developers. Having a master’s degree in management, she thrives in a technical environment and is sensitive to the free software philosophy.
14:20
Martin Alvarez-Espinar, Huawei, W3C
Every town is singular and has a fascinating history (and many stories) behind it. Undoubtedly, digital transformation helps preserve culture and (material and immaterial) heritage and allows us to expose these local stories and hidden gems to the current and future generations. Still, not all communities have the resources or capabilities to digitize their most precious touristic, natural, or cultural assets. To overcome this worldwide challenge, we have created 'Heritage in...', a low-code methodology and open-source tools, to support local communities in promoting their famous and unknown heritage through open data resources and collaborative tools.
This talk presents a non-commercial methodology and tools developed under the OW2 Quick App Initiative that enables rapid development and release of new light applications (Progressive Web Applications and Quick Apps) to digitize, promote and enrich the local heritage of any town worldwide. The project has been tested with several real-world implementations that make the most of the public (and open-licensed) assets, public knowledge, and open-source tools. In less than one hour, we can implement new appealing use cases. No strong IT skills are required; only a basic understanding of Git and web technologies.
Martin Alvarez-Espinar, Huawei, W3C
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Martin, Engineer in Computer Science, has been involved in W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) since 2005 as W3C Technical Manager for Spain and LATAM, taking part in dozens of development projects early in his career. From 2009 on, along with the W3C role, Martin has worked as a consultant, performing various tasks as an interoperability, transparency, and accessibility advisor. He has been involved in numerous W3C Working Groups, leading some Semantic Web activities and developing technical standards for data interoperability and e-government, especially focusing on open data at the European level. He has represented Huawei in several standard organizations since 2020, in concrete on Web-related standards in W3C.
14:40
Collaborative document editing implies numerous additional features not included in editors by default, for example, translators, communication tools, AI, etc. Incorporating these features directly into the editors will provide a user-friendly experience and better team productivity. That’s why plugin development contributes a lot to open-source projects. ONLYOFFICE Docs provides a collection of plugins to complete the task. The presentation covers all steps of plugin development, tools necessary in document editing, and how they help to automate some processes.
Yury Korchagin
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Yury Korchagin is an experienced Professional Services Engineer at ONLYOFFICE with a strong background in professional technical services, a deep understanding of DevOps practices. Highly skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and implementing scalable solutions. Experienced in various DevOps tools and methodologies, including continuous integration and deployment, containerization, and infrastructure automation. Has made significant contributions to optimizing support processes and achieving faster resolution times, has successfully resolved numerous complex cases. Dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, his main drive is to keep complex things simple and user-friendly.
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Are you looking for a communication solution that prioritizes privacy, security, and ethics? Introducing Libervia, the versatile ecosystem developed right here in Europe, built on the XMPP protocol.
But Libervia isn't just for instant messaging. With advanced end-to-end encryption, blogging and microblogging capabilities, calendar events, file sharing, photo albums, a ticket system, and even an ActivityPub <=> XMPP gateway, Libervia is the perfect communication tool for individuals, associations, institutions, NGOs, and more.
Libervia is constantly evolving, with new features like audio/video calls and desktop sharing being implemented thanks to a grant from NLnet/NGI assure with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet program.
What sets Libervia apart is its flexibility. With a multi-frontend approach and a highly customizable web frontend, Libervia adapts to your needs and preferences, giving you complete control over your online interactions. Whether you're an individual user, a family, a group of friends, or a school or business looking for a secure and reliable communication tool, Libervia has got you covered.
Jérôme Poisson
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Jérôme Poisson is a French developer with expertise on XMPP. Jérôme has been a member of the XSF (XMPP Standard Foundation) for many years, and the author of several XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocol).
After working for various companies on topics such as set-top boxes, intuitive OSes for simplified computers or FOSS software for journalists, he is now working full-time on the Libervia project.
Jérôme has given talks in various events, including FOSDEM, RMLL, JDLL, PSES, PyCon France, Parinux, Ubuntu Party, LinuxDays (Prague), Linuxwochen (Vienna), Fêtons Linux (Lausanne).
Jérôme has a long commitment to Free (as in Freedom) Software.
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☕ Coffee break
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For 6 years, we've created an active community of public bodies around a business-opensource-software. New feature are shipped and bugs are fixed on a regular basis.
We'll share how we achieved the sustainability of the project, and insights on how to pool financial resources, even when coming from different bodies.
Matthieu FAURE, Adullact
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Matthieu FAURE is Open Source project manager at ADULLACT, a French non-profit of local governments. He is the creator of Asqatasun (formerly EvalAccess and Tanaguru), the open source web accessibility analyser, reputed for its reliability. Matthieu is also a volunteer instructor at Les Glenans sailing school.
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Since its inception in 2005, OpenStudio has gained a solid experience in the digital world to become a reference in web development. After the opening of the first agency in Le Puy-en-Velay, OpenStudio has established local branches in Clermont-Ferrand, Toulouse, Paris and Lyon. As a committed player in the open source software arena driven by a strong spirit of innovation as well as technical expertise and boundless creativity, we design intelligent and responsible digital tools. Our core activity is centered around : E-commerce, Custom-made Web Development and Artificial Intelligence.
Jean-Luc Marini
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Director of Paris Agency
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Xenogenics is a research institute that specializes in the design and implementations of ultra-low latency data processing systems. Its expertise spans across multiple computer science and engineering areas such as systems design and optimization, low-latency networking, distributed data processing, programming languages, cloud computing and hardware design. Since 2020, it maintains and promotes the OpenStreams project, a high-performance, distributed streams processing platform.
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Smail Niar, Isabelle De Sutter
How to benefit from this huge European funding resource for R&D? Better understand the Horizon Europe program mechanisms and guidelines. In addition, to help you with a future Horizon Europe call, the digital national contact points (NCP) team is introduced.
Smail Niar
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Pr. Smail Niar, since 2021, is NCP for Horizon Europe Calls in Cluster 4-Digital at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France (MESR). In parallel he is professor at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF) and CNRS, France. He received his PhD in computer Engineering from the University of Lille (France) in 1990. He is director of the computer science department at the “Laboratory of Automation, Mechanical and Computer Engineering” LAMIH, a joint research unit between CNRS and UPHF. He is member of the European Network of Excellence (Hipeac), EuroMicro society and IEEE senior. His research interests are AI/ML-based embedded systems, autonomous driving, HPC and edge computing.
Isabelle De Sutter
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In Horizon Europe, the largest European research and innovation programme, she manages the French NCP for Digital and Space. Isabelle holds a degree in European Marketing Sciences and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA). She has worked at SYSTEMATIC Paris Region (pôle de compétitivité) as the Head of the European Affairs Department. Isabelle has over 20 years of experience in business development. She has also worked as a freelance European consultant. She has supported innovative SMEs and start-ups in their international development and has proven project management skills.
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