November 2011 Newsletter



[OW2 Newsletter - November 2011 - From the OW2 Management Office]

Dear OW2 Members, dear All,

Get ready for OW2con 2011, November, 23-24, the third edition of the OW2 community annual conference!

Check out the great program we've put together for you. Once again, attendance at our Annual Conference is completely FREE of charge thanks to our sponsors Canonical, Inria, Microsoft and Orange. REGISTER HERE. Space is limited! And help promote the OW2 Annual Conference by inserting the OW2con button in your blog, website or eNewsletter, copy from here.

Our conference theme, “Open Source: The Innovation Drive” is a testimonial to the value creation potential of open source and to the state of the art technologies presented by our 50 distinguished speakers. OW2con 2011 will showcase the leading role played by the OW2 community in the changing nature of open source software. OW2 is uniquely positionned to leverage the evolution of open source from a disruptive model in commoditized product categories to key innovation driver in emerging technology segments such as cloud computing.

Last month's China Open Source Week (COSW) was a great success. Propelling OW2 to a new level in China, we are already committed to COSW2012. For more details and pictures on the COSW series of events, please follow the links from here. As a direct result of COSW we are pleased to welcome two new members: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA ) who will host the 2012 OW2-Scilab programming contest conference and Forever OSS, China's most dynamic pure play open source systems integrator.

I look forward to seeing many of you again at OW2con (November 23-24) in Paris!

Cedric Thomas

PS: Project leaders: Do not forget to use the OW2 Forge to tell everybody about your project updates. News will appear on the OW2 forge, our home page and in this newsletter

>New Members

NUAA: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics will host next year's programming contest award conference and joins OW2 to leverage its cloud computing expertise and develop its international network.

Forever OSS: the largest pure play open source systems integrator in the Chinese enterprise computing market, Forever OSS joins us to develop awareness for open source software by teaming up with OW2 and other organizations.

>Project Updates

 31 Oct 11: XWiki Enterprise 3.3 Milestone 1 Released (Posted by: sdumitriu)
 30 Oct 11: Sat 4j 2.3.1 released (Posted by: leberre)
 29 Oct 11: ASM 4.0 released (Posted by: ebruneton)
 26 Oct 11: Download SpagoBI Quick Start now! (Posted by: cazzin)
 21 Oct 11: Telosys 1.1.2 (Posted by: lguerin)
 11 Oct 11: XWiki Enterprise and Enterprise Manager 3.2 Released (Posted by: sdumitriu)
 07 Oct 11: LemonLDAP::NG 1.1.2 is out! (Posted by: clement_oudot)
 05 Oct 11: XWiki Enterprise 3.2 Release Candidate 1 Released (Posted by: sdumitriu)
 05 Oct 11: XWiki Enterprise and Enterprise Manager 3.1.1 Released (Posted by: sdumitriu)
 03 Oct 11:  Joram 5.7.0 is released. (Posted by: afreyssin)

>New Projects

At the time of writing, the Technology Council is evaluating three projects. Stay tuned.

>Community News

OW2con

It's time to register for OW2Con 2011! Our annual conference will take place on November 23 and 24 at Orange Labs Innovation Gardens in Paris-Issy-les-Moulinaux. Check out the program here, display the OW2con button and register here. Hurry! space is limited.

OW2 Programming Contest

The first prize of the 2011 OW2 Programming Contest was awarded to Sa Wang, Feng Zhu, Yulong Wu, Fei Tian, of Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, for their contribution in adding a script module for Internet application to Bench4Q. Check out the full results published here.

China Open Source Week (COSW)

The China Open Source Week was a great success, and we are already looking forward to the 2012 edition. In the meantime check out the details and pictures of the events; follow the links from here.

OW2 SQuAT programme update

Join us at OW2con for a session dedicated to the Software Quality Assurance and Trustworthiness programme and learn more about the SQuAT tools currently implemented by OW2, and next stages in the program. More.

>Outlook

Cloud Expo Europe 2012

OW2 is planning to be present at Cloud Expo Europe 2012, January 25-26 in London to promote OSCi and CompatibleOne. Please contact us if you want to participate in the OW2 booth or give a talk in the conference track we'd like to organize. More.