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Project of the month: AuthzForce

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AuthzForce is an Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) framework, compliant with XACML standard v3.0

Projects Market Readiness Levels Focus : DocDoku PLM

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With an established customer base of early and mainstream users and a stable financing, DocDoku PLM (MRL 7) is considered as an established business based on an established product, open to community support. View DocDoku Market Readiness synthesis.

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OW2con'23 : Open Source Software and Digital Commons 0.4 

We are pleased to announce that OW2con'23 will take place physically! We look forward to meet all the community in-person, on June 14-15 at Orange Gardens in Paris-Chatillon. Discover our list of keynote speakers and check out the sponsorship prospectus. The CFP is closed now, many thanks to all submitters! 

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Partnership signed between OW2 and DINUM  0.5 

We are pleased to announce that we signed a partnership agreement with the French DINUM (interministerial digital department) for the year 2023 to provide the DINUM and public actors with OW2 tools and methodological approaches MRL and the GGI.

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New release 1.1 for the OSS Good Governance Handbook  1.04 

We are proud to announce the availability of version 1.1 of the Good Governance handbook,  including translations, automated deployment and a first success story from City of Paris. This framework is proposed by the Good Governance Initiative (GGI), initiated by OW2 and developed today by the OSPO Alliance

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2023 Elections of the OW2 Board of Directors 1.05 

The 2023 election of the OW2 Board process has started. The detailed agenda is available here.  

  

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