Date: Thursday October 18, 2018, from 8:00am to 2:00pm.  
Venue: Aeroclub de France, Paris 16. 

IDC Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

OW2 CEO Cédric Thomas has been invited to give a talk on IA from the open source angle, at the IDC conference on October 18, 2018, in Paris.  

This event is targeting end-user companies, from all activity field. 

More information and registration here. Check the program. 

Download the slides of the presentation given by Cédric Thomas and introduction of the project of OW2 AI Initiative. 

IoT Solutions World Congress 2018
October 16-18, 2018
Barcelona, Spain
http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/

OW2 has been invited to take part in the IoT Solutions World Congress 2018 and is Ambassador partner. 

About IoT Solutions World Congress:
IoT Solutions World Congress is a unique event dedicated exclusively to joining IoT providers with industry in order to help the latter increase productivity via this disruptive technology. After three editions, the event has grown to become the global reference for industrial IoT, and the annual meeting for industry stakeholders to establish new partnerships. With an exhibition spanning 2 halls across  32,000 m2, the 2018 edition will continue to explore the latest industrial IoT innovations to bring visitors the necessary cutting-edge expertise and strategies to  capitalize on IoT featuring over 300 exhibitors. The number of visitors in 2018 is expected to reach 14000.  

A special offer has been established with the organizers to allow OW2 members to join as visitors and/or exhibit by sharing a community booth and mutualize the costs. 

Take advantage of Free and discounted Passes offered to OW2 community

Special discount codes : if you plan to attend the conference, please use the following registration codes to get discounted prices. 

EXHIBITION PASS : Get your free pass with the code FB929F52 (value: 60€)
CONGRESS PASS : Get 50% OFF with the code 32B0AE13 (value: 1,195€)

Last but not least, FREE Full Congress Passes can be offered to a community member coming from industry (10 available). 

Community booth offer:
This offer inludes several booth options and prices (cost vat ex.): 

- Booth 20 sq. m.
Cost for 3 members participating: 2732 €
Cost for 4 members participating: 2100 €

- Booth 25 sq. m.
Cost for 3 members participating: 3199 €
Cost for 4 members participating: 2450 €

Please contact us if you would be interested and/or if you would like more information.

Contact Catherine Nuel. 

Paris, Wednesday October 10, 2018  - Today, Daniel Le Berre, a researcher and academic teacher at the Université d’Artois-Lens Computer Science Research lab (CRIL), is awarded by the CNRS — the French national centre in scientific research — for his outstanding work in large-scale SAT technologies. 

SAT4J is an OW2 mature project offering a library of SAT solvers with reasoning tools in Boolean variables for Java. The software was downloaded 200,000 times since January 2006, ranking 15th among the OW2’s most downloaded projects. Moreover, it has been integrated in the Eclipse platform ten years ago to manage plugin dependencies. 

Who better than Daniel Le Berre to recall the genesis of SAT4J since 15 years, and place it in the context of the current AI (artificial intelligence) revolution? 

Read Daniel Le Berre's speech delivered during the CNRS Innovation Medal ceremony, and appreciate the influence of collaborative open source software production within the OW2 community.  

Address by Daniel Le Berre

"Madame Minister,
Mr President Director General,
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
Dear colleagues,

I am being honoured today for the development of the Sat4j software and its integration into the Eclipse platform. First and foremost a team effort, this provides me the opportunity to mention and extend my thanks to all those without whose efforts this work would not have seen the light of day. It is with them I share this medal. 

The SAT4J Genesis

I would like to begin by mentioning Pascal Rapicault. 11 years ago while employed by IBM Rationale, he worked on Eclipse’s dependencies management module p2. It was Pascal who convinced the Eclipse Foundation to use Sat4j to solve the problem of managing dependencies in p2, which resulted in its large-scale deployment. Sat4j was and still is developed with several of my colleagues — Anne Parrain, Emmanuel Lonca, Stéphanie Roussel and Romain Wallon. The theoretic results of managing dependencies in Linux have been the outcome of two European projects led by Roberto Di Cosmo. Furthermore, since 2005, Sat4j has benefited for its open source development and promotion from the infrastructure of the ObjectWeb/OW2 led by Cedric Thomas.

I would also like to call attention to the role of Artois University — a local and multidisciplinary university in the Hauts de France region — where I have been both teacher and researcher for the past 17 years. I thank the university’s president Pasquale Mammone for being with us this evening. This medal is yet further proof that smaller universities can compete with the best, particularly in research and innovation.

My research owes much to the Lens Computer Science Research Lab (CRIL) founded by Eric Grégoire in 1994. CRIL now has some 31 teacher-researchers all sharing a common focus—symbolic artificial intelligence. When I joined the laboratory in 2001, I began working on less academic aspects of research, such as the organisation of software competitions.

Artificial Intelligence and Open Source Opportunities

This medal highlights an aspect of artificial intelligence that in the past 15 years has undergone a real revolution: the SAT problem. Many industry, and even everyday life situations can be expressed as SAT problems. These problems were extremely tough to resolve until 2001 and the advent of a software capable of solving large-scale SAT problems, which led to the opening of new avenues of research and the adopting of the technology by large corporations (IBM, Intel and Microsoft, to name but a few) and companies specialised in processor and program verification. And, without you knowing, your computers, telephones and tablets also benefit from this revolution. This was made possible because, over many years, researchers have examined the problem from a practical perspective and have produced and shared open source software in this niche area.

Also honoured today is free software, a world I discovered 25 years ago while studying for a degree in computer studies in Brest. I have not left it since. I observe it, I study it and I make my contribution to it in a variety of ways while training my students to achieve optimum results in the field. Whereas 15 years ago I had a highly idealist vision, the experience of integrating Sat4j into Eclipse showed me the importance of working collaboratively—with businesses, academics, individuals and open source organisations. If Sat4j hadn’t been integrated into Objectweb’s ecosystem, it most likely would never have been integrated into Eclipse.

At a time when our lives are destined for ever-increasing interactions with automated processes, I believe it is important that these processes be traceable, explainable and hence available in source code to enable citizens—those who wish to and are capable—to learn about and even improve them, and suggest alternatives. I take this opportunity to applaud Madame Minister’s decision to disseminate the source code of this year’s appeal procedure for the university and college admission platform. I am one of the citizens who have read it as it is of both personal and professional interest. 

I ask you to allow me to end with a thought for my father, whose birthday it is today."

Daniel Le Berre

For more information

• Follow the SAT4J project on OW2
• Read the CNRS article to discover the three CNRS 2018 Innovation Medalists

Meet OW2 Community at non-profit table #P19

We have been invited by our colleagues from the O'Reilly team to run a booth in the non profit pavillion on OSCON 2018 exhibition area. 

OW2 has been exhibiting for many years now at OSCON. This is a great opportunity to reach out to the open source american and international community. 

OW2 member Bonitasoft will be there to run the booth and represent the community. Many thanks to Bonitasoft team!

Please contact us quickly if you are interested in taking this opportunity to promote OW2 and your own open source activities to OSCON community.

Contact Catherine Nuel. 

About OSCON:

July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference

From the explosion of AI with frameworks like TensorFlow, MXNet, and PyTorch to blockchain projects like Hyperledger, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, as well as infrastructure disruptors like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Istio—open source is the value that fuels new industries and pushes forward long standing ones.

OSCON has been ground zero of the open source movement. In its 20th year, OSCON continues to be the catalyst for innovation and success for companies.

Unlike other conferences, we cover open source projects across all origins and affiliations—our program focuses solely on projects in areas of innovation, in AI, blockchain, infrastructure, edge computing, open data and community areas.

Venue:
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.,
Portland, Oregon 97232

Find more about OSCON: https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or

The RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) are organized this year in Strasbourg, from July 7 to July 12.
More information: https://2018.rmll.info/fr

The OW2 Community is represented at the RMLL 2018. 

• March Chantreux, FLOSS Evangelist at Renater, is presenting the OW2 project Sympa mailing list manager on tuesday July 10 at 01:30pm, in a round table.
  Join Marc and discuss about the latest Sympa features and share insights for the project's roadmap. 

• XWiki OW2 member is exhibiting on a booth. Meet the Xwiki team and community members. 

We are sponsor of EclipseCon France 2018. 

Date: June 13-14
Venue: Toulouse

Visit us booth #14 and learn more about STAMP Software Testing Amplification Tools project

OW2 will represent at Eclipsecon the STAMP project, both on a booth and in the research conference track. 

STAMP stands for Software Testing AMPlification. Leveraging advanced research in automatic test generation, STAMP aims at pushing automation in DevOps one step further through innovative methods of test amplification. 

STAMP reuses existing assets (test cases, API descriptions, dependency models), in order to generate more test cases and test configurations each time the application is updated. Acting at all steps of development cycle, STAMP techniques aim at reducing the number and cost of regression bugs at unit level, configuration level and production stage.

Check out the interview of Caroline Landry, STAMP Project Manager at Inria, during EclipseCon France 2018.
Warning USE Media Macro instead this one 

About EclipseCon France:
EclipseCon France is the Eclipse Foundation's event for the French and entire European Eclipse community. You will have opportunities to learn, explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse technologies, the Eclipse Working Groups, and Eclipse member companies.
EclipseCon France is all about community. Contributors, adopters, extenders, service providers, consumers, business people, and researchers gather to share their expertise and learn from each other. EclipseCon provides networking that lead to synergies in the community and opportunities to give and receive help on specific technical issues as well as business opportunities.
More about EclipseCon France: https://www.eclipsecon.org/france2018/

FOSS Backstage is a new conference on everything related to governance, collaboration, legal and economics within the scope of FOSS. 

Following OW2 participation in the Micro-Summit on November 20, 2017, we are participating in the main summit in June 2018. 

OW2 CEO Cédric Thomas will give a 20 minutes presentation in the workshop room. The session details are presented below. 

Date: June 14 from 4:20PM
Venue: Berlin Kulturbrauerei
Room: Maschinenhaus

Title: Is your project market ready?
Defining Collaboratively the Open Source Projects Market Readiness Assessment: Progress Report, Lessons and Challenges.

Abstract:
As it becomes increasingly mainstream, OSS reaches out to conventional decision makers who are far from free software advocates. These business managers expect more than code, they expect a product. No all open source projects are global stars of the software world. For the majority of outsider open source projects, the challenge is to align with the experience and expectations that conventional decision makers have developed in dealing with well established commercial proprietary software vendors. To address this challenge and provide guidance to both developers and decision makers, we, at OW2, have endeavored to develop an Open Source Market Readiness Index. At OW2 we are convinced this tool must be collaboratively designed, built and maintained by those who will use it, the open source market participants and, in the first place, leaders, contributors and  users of open source projects. As we started working on it as a transparent and open process we learned some valuable lessons and discovered unexpected challenges. After a quick introduction to the concept and the methodology this talk is a progress report and a presentation of a workable Market Readiness Scale that will undoubtedly raise questions and invite feedbacks.

Check out the presentation (PDF).

More details

Open Expo Europe
June 6-7
Madrid, Spain
https://openexpoeurope.com/

OW2 is Institutional and Associative partner of the 2018 Open Expo Europe, to be held in Madrid on June 6-7. 

As Partner, we'll be granted privileged conditions to access the event free of charge. A discount code will be provided under request, please contact us if you would like to attend. 

OpenExpo is the annual International Fair and Congress of reference in the field Open Source & Free Software and Open World Economy. The OpenExpo 2018 edition will be mainly oriented to the new challenges of Open Source & Digital Transformation.

Open Awards
The Open Awards recognize and reward the open source projects and initiatives that were held during the previous year creating awareness on companies, administrations, communities and individuals on Open Source & Free Software. 

The Call for Papers is open until March 18, 2018. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please go to : https://openexpoeurope.com/oe2018/call-for-papers-en/. Please keep us informed if you are going there for a talk. 

Promoted by Systematic GTLL group (Groupe thématique Logiciel libre de Systematic) and IRILL (Initiative de Recherche et Innovation sur le Logiciel libre), and organized by their partners and members the Open Source Innovation Spring highlights the excellence and international success of innovative projects stemming from the French industries and Research programs.

Attend this series of technological and scientific open source meet-ups around Software Quality, IoT, Cloud, Big Data and professional Information Systems.

Date : May and June 2018
Place : Paris, Châtillon

• 24 May 2018 — Open Source Innovation Spring - OSIS - Critical IoT Track 2018
  Paris UPMC - Program details

• 5 June 2018 — Open Source Innovation Spring - OSIS - Cloud Track 2018
  Partech Shaker, Paris - Program details
   
• 7-8 June 2018 - OW2con'18: a journey between values and value
  Orange Gardens, Châtillon - Program Details

More details on the Open Source Innovation Spring website.

General Assembly and Board meeting

The 2018 General Assembly will take place on March 21 and the OW2 Board Meeting on March 22, 2018. 

OW2 2018 General Assembly

The General Assembly will take place in the framework of our participation to the Cloud Computing World Expo Conference, in Paris.

Date: March 21 at 6:00pm

Location: Cloud Computing World Expo Conference, Paris Expo, Hall 5.2, in the Amsterdam Room. 

The General Assembly is the official closing of the 2017 fiscal year of OW2. It is a public event open to all.

OW2 Board of Directors

Date: March 22, from 9:00 to 12am.

Location: by web-conferencing.

If you have any question, please feel free to post it on your member list or contact mo AT ow2.org directly.

Your participation in the OW2 governance is important, thank you for your contribution.