Dates: November 15
Venue: POSS Social Event, Paris Square

OW2 received the « Acteurs du Libre » Special Jury Award during the POSS 2016 social event, November 15, 2016 in Paris. 

This distinction was awarded in recognition of ten years of outstanding support to the open source ecosystem. Paris Open Source Summit is the flagship event of the European open source community. 

At the POSS opening ceremony seven awards were given to innovative FLOSS projects, enterprises and to OW2 for their contributions to the Libre and Open Source ecosystem.

OW2 is active on the POSS exhibition floor and during the conferences

At POSS 2016, OW2 runs a large booth shared by several members and partners, including: ActiveEon, Wakanda, SpagoBI, iKoula, OpenSides, XWiki and, of course, OW2 showcasing projects AppHub and CHOReVOLUTION. 

More information about the conference sessions where OW2 is involved this year.

Visit Paris Open Source Summit website.  

The CLASS Conference 2016 is about Clouds towards Smart Cities, Smart Energy, Intelligent Transport Systems, Advanced Manufacturing and eHealth.

OW2 presence at CLASS Conference:

AppHub Presentation
OW2 CEO Cédric Thomas has been invited to give a presentation at CLASS 2016. The AppHub project and its open source market place will be showcased during the conference. 

CHOReVOLUTION Presentation
The CHOReVOLUTION project will be also presented, on November 9:
Speaker : Marco Masetti, Softeco.
Title:CHOReVOLUTION Project to Facilitate Cross-Organization Service Integration
Abstract: From Code to Product, the CHOReVOLUTION Studio addresses scalable
IoT/IoS applications based on choreography modelling, synthesis, adaptation, service bus, security, and cloud. It aims at integrating as much as possible existing web services to create new innovative solutions. The first applications being developed are in the Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart Tourism domains, with benefits in terms of time-to-market, agility, dynamism and cross-organization coordination. CHOReVOLUTION software is published under an open source licence and made publicly available through the
OW2 community.

More information and registration: http://www.cloudconference.eu/
Call for Papers: http://www.cloudconference.eu/program/call_for_papers/
CLASS Conference application areas:

• Smart Cities, Communities, Urban Life and Mobility
• Smart Agriculture & Smart Wood
• Smart Factories & Industry 4.0
• eHealth & Well-Being
• Other areas of interest

Technology view point: 

• Cloud computing
• Internet of Things
• Big Data technologies
• 5G
• Software Defined Networking
• Network Function Virtualisation
• Service Function Chaining
• Cybersecurity

Visit us at OW2 booth #1!

We will exhibit on October 17-18 in the non profit pavilion of this new edition of OSCON Europe conference. 

Please inform us as soon as possible if you would like to join, give a help on the booth and present your OW2-related activities.  

About OSCON:
Open source is everywhere—from the bottom of the programming stack to the very top. OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new in open source languages, tools, and techniques. It's the best place to sharpen your skills, keep pace with changing technologies, and connect with the intellect and energy that made open source what it is today.

Agenda:
- 17-19 October: Conference & Tutorials
- 19-20 October: Training

Find more at: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-eu

The 2016 OW2 International Programming Contest Award Conference took place Oct. 12-13 2016 at Beihang University, Beijing, China. The OW2 Contest committee has evaluated the delivered projects along a set of criteria. The teams who delivered the most convincing work were awarded the following prizes:

• 1st prize: 2000 EUR / 15000 RMB
• 2d prizes: 800 EUR / 6000 RMB per team 
• 3d prizes: 150 EUR / 1200 RMB per team 

First Prize

The 1st Prize was attributed to XU Peixing for the project "DevOps tool supports continuous deployment and configuration for cloud based applications" from ISCAS, mentored by Prof. Wei Chen.

Second Prizes

Three 2d Prizes were attributed to:

• BingZheng Yan, Wenting Shen, Yingying Zheng, Zhao Wei, Liangyi Kang and Shikai Duan from ISCAS, for the project "FaultFactory: A Fault-tolerance Benchmarking Suite for Big Data Frameworks" mentored by Prof. Lijie Xu
• Hu Ben and Wen Shangmin from NUDT, for the project "A PAAS Cloud Framework for Rapid Deployment of Existing Open-Source Robotic Software Packages" mentored by Prof. Ding Bo
• Xia Zhenglin and Yifei DA from BUAA, for the project "An Intelligent Open Source Code Search Engine" mentored by Prof. Hailong Sun

Third prizes

• Seven 3rd Prizes to all the other teams who delivered a final work and activity reports.

The Jury started with the rating and quality assessment attributed by the mentors then, for each project, added rating along several criteria criteria: quality of the activity reports, quality of the code repository layout, quality of the licensing management, quality of the documentation (code comments, user documentation, videos), and availability of tests.

More about the OW2 International Programming Contest: https://contest.ow2.org

RMLL (Rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre)
Dates: July 4-6, 2016
Venue:
Mozilla Offices
16-bis Boulevard Montmartre
Paris 75009 

RMLL Security Track presents top OSS projects contributors, Security hackers or hacktivists speaking about Freedom and Security. Free entrance (booking available in May) and talks in English.  

The community is represented at the RMLL 2016 with a presentation from OW2 project LemonLDAP::LG by Clément Oudot, on tuesday July 5 from  15:40-16:20. 

See more details about Clément's presentation: https://sec2016.rmll.info/program/#websso

Find more about RMLL:  https://sec2016.rmll.info/#page-top