Open Source Experience
December 10-11, 2025
Paris (Cité des Sciences)
Website: https://www.opensource-experience.com/

OW2 is ambassador partner of Open Source Experience. Pierre-Yves Gibello OW2 CEO is involved in the Program Committee. We are currently working on setting up the OW2 village in the exhibition, please contact us for more information. 

For an idea of how it looks like, please see below or have a look at the photos from last year's OW2 booth.

About OSXP : Supported by Systematic Paris-Region, Open Source Experience is the Tech – Usage – Business event dedicated to Open Source IT solutions, bringing together over 4,000 professionals and players in the digital sector over 2 days!

Open Source Experience focuses on open source technologies, solutions and challenges in France and Europe, and highlights the driving role of open source innovations in the digital transformation of organisations in technologies such as AI, Data Management, IoT, Cloud and Blockchain.

As an international showcase for the technological excellence and economic dynamism of the French open source sector, the event brings together global technology players, professional associations, companies and public authorities, a vast network of SMEs and research bodies.

SFScon 2025
November 7-8, 2025
Bolzano, Italy
Website: https://www.sfscon.it/

OW2 is community partner of SFScon, and is planning to have a presence there, possibly on a booth. Project leaders and members: contact us for more information. 

About SFScon: The South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFSCON, is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software with around 500 participants in 2024. SFSCON promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.

RIOS, as OW2 associate organization will also be there and represent the OSPO Alliance. 

The Nuit des Acteurs du Numérique Azuréens returns to Inria in Sophia-Antipolis on Tuesday 13 May 2025. This year, you'll be immersed in the world of Open Source, the driving force behind global innovation.

🌍 Open source makes the world go round - why shouldn't you?
On the programme: fascinating discussions with international experts, including Huawei, Baylibre and OW2; as well as interactive sessions to get YOUR opinions on open source. Join this not-to-be-missed digital event on the French Riviera!

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Nuit des Acteurs du Numérique

Date: mardi 13 mai, 2025, à partir de 18 heures.
Lieu: INRIA, 2004 Rte des Lucioles, 06560 Valbonne

La Nuit des Acteurs du Numérique Azuréens fait son grand retour le Mardi 13 mai 2025 à l’Inria de Sophia-Antipolis. Cette année, plongez dans l’univers de l’Open Source, moteur de l’innovation mondiale.

L'open source fait tourner le monde - pourquoi pas vous ?
Au programme : des échanges passionnants avec des experts internationaux, notamment Baylibre, Huawei et OW2 ; mais aussi des sessions interactives pour avoir VOS avis sur l’open source.
Rejoignez cet événement incontournable du numérique sur la Côte d’Azur !

Agenda et inscription

18h00 : Accueil & mot d’ouverture

18h10 : Keynote d’introduction : L’open source gouverne le monde

Intervenant international invité par Baylibre (Patrick Titiano)

18h30 : Table ronde : Souveraineté numérique et open source : une évidence…

Intervenants : Vincent Danno (Huawei) – Vincent Burgevin (Tas Cloud Services) – Patrick Duverger (Antibes) – Rémi Ronchaud (Inria Academy)
Animée par Pierre-Yves Gibello (OW2). 

Résumé : Les logiciels libres et open source ne sont pas seulement dans plus de 85% de nos smartphones. Déjà omniprésents dans le cloud, ils envahissent désormais le paysage de l’IA générative. Ils se propagent dans les applications, dans les réseaux et serveurs d’entreprise, de collectivités territoriales, dans les infrastructures des prestataires cloud et des infogérants.
A l’heure où les incertitudes géopolitiques pourraient remettre en cause la possibilité même d’avoir accès aux technologies propriétaires cloud dont beaucoup dépendent aujourd’hui (individus comme entreprises), quelle place l’open source peut-il jouer pour nous faire regagner une souveraineté numérique nécessaire, au même titre que peut l’être la gestion de l’eau potable ou de l’électricité.
A qui confier ses données et traitements en toute sérénité aujourd’hui ?
L’open source est-il gage de souveraineté et d’autonomie stratégique ?

19h00 : Table ronde : L’open source et les entreprises

Intervenants : Pascal Flamand (Janua) – Raphael Semeteys (Worldline) – Patrick Titiano (Baylibre) – Cédric Ulmer (France Labs)
Animée par Christian Paterson (OpenUp)

Résumé : L’open source est très répandu dans les entreprises, mais de l’autre côté du miroir, d’autres entreprises en vivent.
Cette table ronde fait intervenir des acteurs de l’écosystème open source qui expliqueront leur business model et débattront des avantages et inconvénients de l’approche open source.
Qu’il s’agisse d’un modèle éditeur, expertise, conseil ou accompagnement, de multiples possibilités existent, et nous aborderons aussi comment s’assurer que les clients comprennent les modalités de financement de ces modèles, et les avantages que cela leur rapporte.
Depuis plus de 40 ans, l’open source est un des exemples majeurs d’économie circulaire qui fonctionne et qui fait avancer le monde, il faut mettre en lumière ceux qui y contribuent et leurs relations avec les acheteurs et utilisateurs.

19h30 : Ateliers d’intelligence collective

Ces ateliers interactifs et collaboratifs visent à recueillir les retours d’expérience et les visions des participants sur l’utilisation et l’avenir des logiciels open source.
Ces ateliers permettent d’explorer des problématiques spécifiques et de co-construire des pistes de réflexion et d’action.

20h15 : Cocktail de clôture

Un moment convivial et de networking pour clôturer cette soirée !

Programme complet et inscription

Présentations et photos

🎞️ Presentation slides

After the success of the first edition, AlpOSS is coming back in 2025 ! 

AlpOSS "Alpes Open Source Software" is a local conference on open source software, organized at the premises of the town of Echirolles (near Grenoble). 

This event is the result of a collective initiative of three local digital players with varied profiles: Belledonne Communication (publisher of the Linphone open source solution), the town of Échirolles and OW2 for the community side. 

Its aim is to create links between suppliers of innovative open source technologies and users, to discuss collaboration models and business models, and to structure and revitalize the local ecosystem.

For more information please visit the website: https://alposs.fr/

🎬Video replay

Presentation slides

All slides in PDF used in AlpOSS presentations can be found in the program. 

FOSDEM 2025

Date: 1-2 February 2025
Venue: ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels  

Applications for community booths are being evaluated, including OW2 and cascade funding projects where OW2 is involved. 

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with several OW2 community members, among multiple open source projects and experts, and enjoy together inspiring sessions in Brussels. 

In order to prepare your agenda, check out the Open Source Week website where you'll find all colocated events during this unique open source week in Europe, including:

• the Software Heritage Symposium & Summit, on Jan. 29
• the CHAOSScon EU 2025, to monitor health in open source projects, on Jan. 30
• the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025 organized by Open Forum Europe on Jan. 31
• the Workshop on Open Source key areas for Digital Autonomy on Febr. 1

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

OSXP 2024

• Press Release including projects showcased (🇫🇷)
• Open Source Experience 2024 Photos

Event Preparation

As every year, OW2 and its community will be largely visible during OSXP.
We will organize a community booth, and Antoine Mottier, OW2 CTO, is part of the Program Committee. 

To find more about Open Source Experience 2024, please visit: https://www.opensource-experience.com/en/.

Visit us Booth #C20!

Come visit us during OSXP, we'll be pleased to welcome you and introduce the various projects and technologies presented on our booth. 

Project	Main capabilities
	CiteLibre  is part of the Lutece software suite provided by the City of Paris, to help loval administrations implement a broad range of digital services, right out of the box. City of Paris is Corporate Member of oW2 and Lutece part of OW2 code base.
	NGI Zero Commons Fund is a cascade funding project coordinated by NLnet created to share 21.6 million euros of R&D on technology commons. This effort is proposed by a large group of european organisations, academia, and non-proft organisations, including OW2.
	NGI Search  is a program from the European Commission  aiming to bring forth the next innovative software for searching, discovering and exploiting data on the internet.
	Murena is producer of the deGoogled operating system /e/OS and lead of ALLMA, an innovative tool to evaluate and integrate open-source LLMs into open-source forks of Android.
	Datafari Enterprise Search enables to find data wherever they are, whatever they are. Datafari comes with many connectors, a big data architecture, advanced use of Articifial Intelligence and Machine Learning to optimise Relevancy. Datafari is funded by NGI Search.
	Spare Cores, a Python-based open-source ecosystem, offers standardized inventory and performance evaluations for compute resources of public cloud and server providers. Spare Cores is funded by NGI Search.
	The OSS Good Governance initiative is a joint effort led by OW2 and many partners from the OSPO Alliance to grow awareness and expertise on how to properly use and contribute to open source software.

Attend our conferences

• December 4, 12:20 to 01:05: An alternate way to Gafam for Europe? About the EC NGI funding and how it empowers the ecosystem.
  Moderator:Pierre-Yves Gibello OW2 CEO
  Speakersseveral NGI Search projects: Gaël DUVAL (E FOUNDATION & MURENA)) ; Renaud Chaput (Mastodon CTO); Manon Corneille (Open Food Facts); Ludovic Dubost (XWiki SAS).
  Abstract: Faced with the data capitalism embodied by the American and Chinese Big Tech firms, another sovereign and free path is opening up in Europe: decentralised, interoperable commons based on open source, supported by a “broader social economy” ecosystem including businesses and academics with the support of public funds. This is the aim of the European NGI fund (Next Generation Internet): to support the ecosystem through cascade financing, accessible to small players who are too unstructured to obtain subsidies. A number of NGI award-winners have come here to talk about their use cases, what drives them and what’s at stake: Mastodon, /e/OS, Open Food Facts, CryptPad. OW2 is also involved in NGI, on the funding distribution side – as are other foundations, including NLnet, FSFE and APELL: this role underlines the importance of foundations as relays between the ecosystem and the political sphere. So it’s time to impose an alternative, European-style narrative – and it can be done!

• December 5, 11:30 to 11:50: Navigating the financing jungle.
  Speakers: Pierre-Yves Gibello OW2 CEO and Julien Paris - Cofounder and developer - multi .
  Abstract: Financing an open source project like Datami, from POC to maintenance, remains a long, uncharted journey that is specific to each project. Datami started out as a public open source project with financing from a range of sources: an ANCT grant in 2021 and the European NGI fund in 2024, but also from services provided to associations or open source contributions since 2019. Depending on the iterations, we continuously reinvent the financing strategies, and try out new, unexplored avenues such as SaaS or other co-financing systems that we adapt to our supporting structure and team. After years of experimenting, we believe that there are still avenues that neither we nor the institutions have yet opened up. One of these avenues is to imagine a form of collective management organisation – a “shared commons fund” – loosely inspired by the system invented by Beaumarchais in the 18th century to provide economic support to the publishing sector.

• December 5, 13:30 to 14:15. Round table "Unlocking the Strategic Value of Open Source in Business".
  An open discussion between members of the OSPO Alliance around what it takes to really make the best of open source for companies and organisations.
  Speakers: Nicolas Toussaint (Moderator, Orange), Silona Bonewald (leadingbit solutions), Sébastien Lejeune (Thales), Simon Clavier (SNCF) and Philippe Bareille (City of Paris). 

About OW2 Community Booth (Practical information for OW2 members and partners)

If you are an OW2 member, please consider joining us and sharing the village to showcase your projects and solutions. The Community village will be ideally located along OSXP main entrance and access to conference rooms. It has the capacity to welcome up to three/ four members on a total exhibition size of 18 sq.m. The illustration below gives an idea of the booth set up. 

The package includes (see also the illustration below):
✅ global signage and visibility as an exhibitor (entry on OSXP exhibitor directory)
✅ individual counter + stool
✅ the blue carpet
✅ the generic OW2 visual on partition including OW2 member logos
✅ individual signage for each booth with member logo and tagline
✅ a display monitor
✅ to be shared: brochure holder and meeting space (table)
✅ An optional visitor badge scanner.

Our booth location will be: # C20.

About Open Source Experience:
Led by Systematic Paris Région, Open Source Experience is the meeting place for the entire free software sector, which brings together more than 6 000 professionals for 2 days! A place for technological exchanges, meetings and business opportunities dedicated to open source and all open digital players.

SFScon 2024
November 8-9, 2024
Venue: NOI Techpark, Bolzano.
https://www.sfscon.it/

The South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFSCON, is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. SFSCON promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.

RIOS, as OW2 associate organization will represent OW2 and the OSPO Alliance at SFScon 2024. 

Visit us on the OW2 booth run by OnMyDisk and SpareCores, two projects from the NGI-Search initiative. 

OW2 Track Agenda

 
Schedule: Friday November 8 at 16:40.
Room: Seminar 4. 

Talk #1: How to set up an Open Source Program Office? Get insights and use cases from the OSPO Alliance

Video: Watch the video
Schedule: Friday 8, 16:40 to 17:00.
Speaker: Valentina Del Prete, Seacom, RIOS.

Abstract: The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) developped by the OSPO Alliance proposes a methodological framework to assess open-source awareness, compliance and governance in any kind of organizations, helping them to structure and improve the use of FOSS towards an OSPO. This presentation will highlight the main progresses and new features achieved since last year's introduction at SFScon, such as the translation of the GGI Good Governance in five languages, the recent Success Stories presented in the OnRamp meeting series, and many more. 

Talk #2: Decentralized Search Over Decentralized Storage

Video: Watch the video
Schedule: Friday 8, 17:00 to 17:20.
Speaker: Alexey Volkov, On My Disk founder, software engineer with background in telecommunications.

Abstract: In this session, we will explore an innovative decentralized search system developed in collaboration between On My Disk, a personal cloud storage solution, and PeARS, a self-hosted search engine and an NGI Searchfounded projects. This system is designed to enable user-friendly, AI-powered, multilingual search capabilities directly over a decentralized storage environment, empowering individuals to manage and search their data across devices without relying on third-party servers. By combining cutting-edge AI with a robust, local-first approach, this solution allows users to maintain complete control over their data, ensuring secure, fast, and personalized search results in a user-controlled environment. Learn how this technology is setting a new standard for privacy and autonomy in data storage and retrieval.

Talk #3: Optimizing Cloud Compute Resources with Spare Cores

 
Video: Watch the video
Schedule: Friday 8, 17:20 to 17:40.
Speaker: Gergely Daroczi, PhD, author of a book on data analysis.

Abstract: Spare Cores, an NGI Search founded project, is a vendor-independent, open-source, Python ecosystem that offers a comprehensive inventory and performance evaluation of compute resources across cloud server providers. We start all server types publicly (GHA) to run hardware inspection tools and benchmarks for different workloads. Our findings are published as open data and open source tools to help you identify and optionally start the most cost-efficient instance type for your specific use cases (e.g. ML model training or CI/CD pipelines) in your cloud environment. Additionally, Spare Cores provides a seamless SaaS solution built on this open source ecosystem, managing the entire lifecycle of containerized batch jobs without requiring direct vendor engagement.

See the OW2 track agenda on SFScon website: https://www.sfscon.it/tracks/ow2-track-2024/. 

LibreOffice and Open Source Conference
Date: October 10-12, 2024.
Venue: Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Webiste: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/

The LibreOffice and Open Source Conference is a meeting point for FOSS communities. It is preceded by an open day for the LibreOffice community member meetings on 9 October 2024.

This year the Conference is not only a meeting point for the global LibreOffice community to but also an opportunity to welcome organizations and institutions creating, working with and promoting Free and Open Source Software.

In addition to the talks, presentations and workshops related to LibreOffice the agenda will include proposals from other projects, communities and organisations. 

The OW2 project Mercator will be there.
The OSPO Alliance will also be presented with a talk in the program.