What is our mission?

Based on Open Source and Open Standard components, acting as a community, our mission is to:

• Foster original OW2 Research and Academic community in Europe,
• Help develop the Europe OW2 Business ecosystem,
• Provide specific support to local community needs. 

The objectives are targeted through three Action Tracks

• Academia Networking,
• Awareness and Promotion, 
• Project Valorisation.

Have a look at the ELC presentation

What is a Local Chapter?

A Local Chapter is a group of contributors willing to join their efforts and promote the goals of a community characterized by its geography or its language.
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In order to represent OW2 on a European scale, the Europe Local Chapter has been approved for launching by OW2 Board on May 15th 2008.  
The Europe Local Chapter drafted its charter and has defined its strategy through workstreams and tasks. Check our Mission Statement for more info and don't hesitate to look at the OW2 ELC Presentation.

What is our organisation?

The ELC represents OW2 at a regional level under supervision of the Management Office. 

• A management team is in charge of LC coordination and reporting to OW2 MO.
• A core team is made of the LC management team plus members with commitment to lead specific actions.
• An extended team may be setup to broaden the participation to less active contributors and for dissemination purpose.

Registration to core or extended team is of course free and on a voluntary basis (but minimum active contribution is required) and information coming from LC will be available to all OW2 members.