UShareSoft has built close relationships with the OW2 Community since 4 years now and the company is Corporate Member since January 2011.
Since then UShareSoft have been active with France Telecom and other OW2 partners to manage to succees a 10 Millions FSN co founded R and D project named OpenCloudWare Initiative, where OW2 and few OW2 members are playing a master role.

UShareSoft, OW2 cooperation has started with several OSCi members to build complete cloud software Images for the domain BI4Cloud project. The first step have been achieved with few Cloud Business Ready Software solutions.

Moving to the next phase in 2013, UShareSoft is making available to OW2 community a Web Cloud AppStore Front as well as free UForge Application Builder enabling OW2 projects to package software for instant software distribution to any Virtualization or cloud platforms.

Also UShareSoft is launching Cloud Dynamic App Stores for next generation software delivery around the globe with Cloud Service Providers, as such UShareSoft ISV partner program connect OW2 members to cloud providers, creating new business initiatives for OW2 members with their Software stack ready to be distributed to many cloud service providers.

UShareSoft believes that users Cloud Software Factory UForge Builder, supporting Multi OS and Multi Cloud is critical to address lock in, cloud security, data location, software management and governance, standard publishing and self service.

Alban has 25 years work experience, including Engineering, Marketing and Product Management executive with P and L responsibilities and general management experience. Successful track record on leading edge server software product lines design, innovation, and market introduction, including handful of market leading portfolio or technologies such as the worlds leading LDAP solution, Suns Directory Server Enterprise Edition Sun DSEE, the open source project OpenDS or the Sun Java DMK Platform, including Java Management Extensions JMX framework.
Prior to UShareSoft CEO, Alban has been with Sun Microsystems for more than 18 years, including several years based at Suns Menlo Park campus in California. Last position at Sun Microsystems, Alban was leading Sun DSEE portfolio and P and L as well as managing Sun France Grenoble R and D Engineering Center GEC.

UShareSoft

UShareSoft simplifies the way IT professionals deliver software to the Cloud Computing. We make it easy for individual developers, system administrators and professionals to automate the creation and deployment of software templates and images for all the major virtualization and cloud computing formats including Vitual Box, Xen, KVM, Hyper V, OVF, VHD, VMware, Amazon, Azure, IBM CloudBurst, Eucalyptus, Cloud.com and others environments. UForge Server Templates Factory provides the best image Factory and App Store to assemble self deployable distributed appliances for on demand application delivery.

Cedric represented Talend company during the inception of OW2 and was Board member since OW2 was created.

Talend heavily involved in the international development of Open Source, has got offices in multiple countries (France, UK, Germany, USA, China, Japan...), strategic member of Eclipse, actively develop CXF/Karaf/Camel/ServiceMix Apache projects (thanks PMC Chairs, PMCs and main committers for each of this projects), was cofounder of OSA (OSA merged with OW2 in Oct 2009)...

Most notably Talend has successfully launched Chinese operations and Cedric works with OW2 China Local Chapter (Beijing Corporate Networking meeting, OW2 Programming Context...)

Already involved in the OSCi and the Business Intelligence Initiative of OW2, Talend is working closely with other OW2 members including UshareSoft, BonitaSoft, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica or Bull.

For example, a strong integration between Talend & Bonita Open Studio or Talend & SpagoBI runs well.

Cedric Carbone is Talends Chief Technical Officer. He joined Talend since his inception (2006), having previously managed the Java practice of Neurones. He currently manages a 140 people technical team in different locations (mainly in China, Germany, France, USA and Ireland).

Cedric is also Board Member of the Eclipse foundation. Cedric has also lectured at several universities on technical topics such as XML or Web Services.

Talend

Talend is the recognized market leader in open source data management & application integration. After three years of intense research and development investment, and with solid financial backing from leading investment firms, Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006.

Talends data management solutions portfolio now includes data integration (operational data integration and ETL for Business Intelligence), data quality, and master data management (MDM). Through the acquisition of Sopera in 2010, Talend became also a key player in application integration (SOA and ESB markets). Talend actual focus is Big Data solution including Visual Parsing, Manipulation, import/export data w/ Hadoop.

Unlike the small and quickly consolidating, number of traditional vendors offering proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest and wealthiest organizations, Talend offers a completely new vision. The company shatters the traditional proprietary model by supplying open, innovative and powerful software solutions with the flexibility to meet the needs of all organizations. Talend makes middleware solutions available to organizations of all sizes, for all their integration needs.

For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com and Talend’s community at www.talendforge.org.

Since the beginning of OW2 I am the Engineering Group representative at BoD, where I have been an active member, by participating in almost all board meetings as well as in many OW2 events. I continuously involve Engineering Groups people, and in particular SpagoBI team, to be active into OW2 community through its activities: councils, initiatives, events, on-line/in-person meetings, on-line discussions. I think that the active participation in a community is a key factor for its growth and success. I offer myself as a candidate to stimulate OW2 growth in a pro-active and transparent way, in order to keep the community open to give an answer to many demands in the open source domain, coming from vendors, integrators, users, researchers and individuals. OW2 Consortium needs a real active members participation and I personally will continue to give my humble effort to stimulate OW2 community through next Board.

Gabriele Ruffatti, founder of the SpagoWorld initiative, is Architectures & Consulting Director within the Innovation & Research Division of Engineering Group. He has held senior management positions at Engineering Group in project and product management, in software process improvement & quality assurance and in architectural solutions definition. He is the Engineering Groups focal point for industrial open source activities. Currently, he is active in the start-up of the new Engineering Groups Big Data Competency Center. In 2004 he founded SpagoWorld initiative, currently including four mature OSS projects of OW2 Consortium code base (SpagoBI, Spago4Q, Spagic and Spago) and two Eclipse Foundation projects (eBAM, eBPM). He is currently member of the SpagoWorld executive board and of OW2 Board of Directors; he is also active in various Italian and international open source initiatives. He has contributed to some Italian and European IT research projects, focusing on open source. Committed to students and IT professionals education, he has lectured at Engineering Groups ICT Training School and he was Open Source Software adjunct professor at the University of Padua, Italy. He regularly gives seminars within bachelors and masters degrees in various universities.

Engineering Group

To continue efforts to help with making the OW2 brand more relevant in the cloud computing space, especially in the North America market. Help forge deeper relationships with the OpenSocial Foundation to help foster open standards and social business middleware.

John Mertic serves as Solutions Architect and Community Manager for SugarCRM, having several years of experience with PHP web applications and open source communities. A frequent conference speaker and an avid writer, he has been published in php|architect, IBM Developerworks, and in the Apple Developer Connection, and is the author of the book 'The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications' and the book 'Building on SugarCRM: Creating Applications the Easy Way'. He has also contributed to many open source projects, most notably the PHP project where is the creator and maintainer of the PHP Windows Installer. He sits on the board of the OW2 Consortum, and serves as secretary of the OpenSocial foundation.

Sugar CRM

XWiki SAS is a French company started in 2004 by myself to build an Open
Source Business on top of XWiki, the Advanced Wiki engine created by
XWiki. XWiki is one of the top downloads on the ObjectWeb forge with
close to 1000 downloads per day. XWiki is used by major companies around
the world including AFP, Air France, Lagardere, EADS, Chronopost, Carrefour, EMC, Curriki as well as Open Source projects like SpagoBI or OW2 itself, which is using XWiki for it's websites.

XWiki has also been member of the CompatibleOne project sponsored by the French State as part of the Competitive Clusters Initiatives and now the RISCOSS European project where OW2 is also present.

XWiki is also working with OW2 members especially eXo Platform, BonitaSoft. I strongly believe in OW2 capabilities to make it's member benefit of synergies between the members. I would like to be part of the evolution of OW2.

I'm XWiki's CEO. I hold a degree of the Ecole Polytechnique and
Telecom Paris. I was previously CTO from 1998 to 2003 at NetValue an
Internet Measurement company which was acquired in 2002 by
Nielsen//NetRatings and previously Consultant on Internet Technologies
at Netscape Communications Corp. when it established it's operations in
Europe in 1996.

I'm the creator of XWiki the software on which XWiki SAS's business is build.

XWiki SAS

XWIKI SAS is an innovator in the Social space, first by being the first
company to build a business on top of an Open Source Wiki, second by
proposing the most advanced Wiki platform on the market. Wiki's are an
important Web 2.0 trend which are popularized by the WikiPedia
encyclopedia and lead to Social Content Organization.
In business since 2004, XWIKI SAS is already working with more than 100 clients in Europe and in the USA. The XWiki software is used by many important companies as well as Small Businesses.

Michel-Marie Maudet is Linagora's COO. He has been involved in open-source since more than 15 years. Linagora renew its involvement in OW2. It aims to contribute to the sustainability and relevance of OW2 community for the next years.
Linagora contributes to OW2 projects such as LemonLDAP and Petals ESB (after the acquisition of Petals Link). Linagora participates to OpenCloudWare and Contrail research projects contributing to the OW2 Cloudware intiative as well as CHOReOS at the heart of the new OW2 Future Internet Software and Services initiative.

He takes in charge the delivery of customers projects based on Open Source Technologies. He is R&D Manager for Linagora's sofware. Main research domains deals with collaborative solution and Entreprise Social Network based on Cloud and mobile technologies. Prior to this job, I was administrator of Unix systems since 1995, and of Linux systems since 1997. I began as engineer in System administration on IBM zSeries and pSeries infrastructures. I discovered the Open Source and Free Software movement in 1996 thanks to Linux. And I've always worked around it since that.

LINAGORA

LINAGORA is a software vendor and professional services provider focused on Open Source Software. With more than 160 employees, offices in France (Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse), in the US (San Francisco) and in Belgium (Brussels), the company is among major players of Open Source Software. LINAGORA develops its own Open Source softwares (LINAGORA Global Sofware) and provide organizations with reliable and efficient support (LINAGORA Run Services) and professional services (LINAGORA Professional Services). One of the leading pioneers of the Open Source movement in Europe, LINAGORA has strong expertise and offerings in Open Source technologies. As a consequence LINAGORA has been taking part in all major French Open Source projects, often playing a primary role as a trustworthy link between open source communities and clients. LINAGORA had assisted the French National Assembly in implementing an open source environment but customers. LINAGORA's customers include Fortune 500 companies (Air France, Carrefour, Areva...), government agencies (French Department Of Defense, French Inland Revenue service...), Universities (Université de Lyon, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) and many more...

OW2 provides open source technologies that are the core of many teaching units at University Joseph Fourier (UJF) such as the IM2AG departments (Computer Science, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics). We are interested in the co-development with the OW2 members of tutorials about open source software (e.g. http://ecom.ow2.org). This will promote OW2 software for teaching abroad since UJF is involved in many international teaching programs and will create a virtuous circle for educational material reuse.

OW2 is a solid platform providing software that interests many labs in applied mathematics and computer sciences but also potentially in other fields such as medecine, physics or biology at UJF. These other fields often require distributed computing technologies such as cloud computing, ambient systems and others middleware. This is an opportunity to build collaborative projects between academia and industry that involve various disciplines but also to participate and promote OW2 projects as technology provider.

OW2 is a partner for technology transfer between academia and industry through an international open source platform and consortium. UJF has a dynamic policy of research and technology transfer and supports collaborative research by initiating R&D partnerships with public laboratories and private companies. We believe that all OW2 partners and UJF will mutually benefit from such collaborations.

Noel De Palma received his PhD in computer science from the Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble) in 2001. During his PhD, he worked with SCALAGENT on the A3/OLAN component model. Then he took a postdoc position at Orange Labs where he participated to the OW2 JORM project. From 2002, he was associate professor at ENSIMAG and a member of the SARDES team (INRIA/LIG), where he conducted research on autonomic computing and worked on the JADE software transferred as a part of the OW2 JASMINe project. In 2007 he was a guest researcher at SICS/KTH (Sweden). Since 2010, he is a professor at the Joseph Fourier University and the leader of the ERODS research team (UJF/INP/CNRS LIG labs) which focuses on cloud computing. He has around 50 international publications and regularly participate in international conference committees or editorial boards. He leaded the SELFWARE project and participated in others EU and ANR projects. He is currently involved in the OpenCloudware FSN project. Since 2012 Noel is Associate Vice President for Research in charge of Mathematic and computer science at UJF.

University Joseph Fourier

ScalAgent DT has been created in 2001. It was a long time board member of the ObjectWeb Consortium. Since then we have continuously supported the ObjectWeb then OW2 Consortium as we believe that OW2 is a mandatory unity flag which arms the collection of collaborating OW2 projects going to the market. We have renewed this board engagement in 2011 and 2012.

ScalAgent DT develops the JORAM MOM middleware. JORAM is a small and key part of an information system middleware, as most OW2 projects. We have collaborated and collaborate with many other OW2 projects, namely JOnAS, Petals ESB, Fractal, FraSCAti, Monolog, ODIS, as a provider, user, and/or contributor. We also participate to the OW2 Cloudware initiative with a cloud messaging platform contribution.

My goal as a board member is to promote the OW2 middleware brand, for the benefit of OW2 members.

Serge Lacourte graduated from Ecole Polytechnique France, and holds a PhD from Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble.
Serge has been leading ScalAgent DT as CEO since it was created in 2001, and has been member of the OW2 board since 2011. Before that Serge worked in an research-industry collaborative institute, on successive short term and focused projects, with the objective of transferring research results to the industrial partner products.

ScalAgent

My main objective is to work with OW2 members to promote wide adoptions of quality OSS in governmental agencies and industries. I also would like to improve the synergy between the different OW2 projects, and to promote and foster the OW2 strategic initiatives, namely Open Source Cloudware Initiative and Future Internet Software and Services Initiative, find new partners and members for the OW2 Consortium. As a coordinator of the FP7 OCEAN (Open Cloud for Europe, Japan and beyond) project, I am aiming to promote OW2 cloud activities and to foster international collaboration of OW2 with the key cloud domain partners.

Dr. Yury Glikman is a project manager at Fraunhofer FOKUS responsible for coordination of collaboration with open source communities. His technical and research background covers SOA, model driven software engineering, design, prototyping and testing of distributed systems. Yuri Glickman was/is actively contributing and was leading technical activities in numerous international (TT-Medal, VISP, SWEB, QualiPSo, ALADDIN, ENGAGE, iCity) and national research projects (KING, TWIN), and in research projects in collaboration with Japanese industry (Hitachi, NTT Data). Yury is the coordinator of the OCEAN project aiming to foster the emergence of a sustainable open source cloud ecosystem in Europe, by generating greater efficiency among collaborative research projects on open source cloud computing. Yuri coordinates the activities under the umbrella of the German QualiPSo Open Source Competence Centre. He is working in the fields cloud computing, open data platforms, open source software and OSS collaborative development environment.

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Fraunhofer is the largest organization for applied research in Europe (22.000 employees) with 66 Institutes and research units. Fraunhofer FOKUS is established 1988 in Berlin. 540 employees from 30 nations, FOKUS stands for IP Telephony (Invention of SIP), Future Internet and Autonomic Communication, Web/Telco Convergence, I-Centric Communication, E-Government: one stop shopping, Interoperability, OPEN DATA, Cloud Computing, Testbeds / FOKUS-Labs: prove of concepts, Test Automation: Invention of TTCN-3, BerliOS - the largests European OSS forge, German Qualipso Competence Center.