The Programming Contest 2016 Team Work has started now and will run until Friday September 02. 

The award ceremony will take place in October, (date to be confirmed soon). 

30+ teams have registered to work on more than 20 different topics. 

We wish all contestants an excellent OW2 Programming Contest!

See more information: https://contest.ow2.org/

Created in 2002, the ADULLACT has the aim to support and coordinate actions from local governments dedicated to promote, develop, and mutualize the free software useful for public administrations. The Congress welcome open source professionals, and reknowned speakers. 

OW2 Cédric Thomas CEO and Stéphane Laurière CTO will participate in the 2016 Congress to discuss possible collaboration opportunities with ADULLACT members around OW2 Big Cities an Accessibility Initiatives, and Oscar Open Source Software Quality Program. 

More about the congress: http://congres.adullact.org/congres-2016/

OW2 will participate on April 2016 OpenStack Summit in Austin and showcase there the AppHub European Open Source Market Place. 

Visit us booth B32!

Discover and enjoy live demos of AppHub Market Place on OW2 booth.
See more about AppHub. 

Enjoy AppHub European Open Source Market Place live demonstrations

- Attend AppHub demonstration in the MarketPlace demo theater. Schedule: Thursday April 28 at 12:40.
- Attend Apphub demonstration in the TechTalks session. Schedule: Thursday April 28 at 02:00.
Discover the slides

Press Feedback

 
See the article from Le MagIT about AppHub at OpenStack Summit (French). 

AppHub at Net Futures 2016
Date & Place: April 20-22, 2016, Brussels

AppHub at Net Futures Conference, April 20-21, 2016

Venue: The Egg
Rue Bara 175
1070 Brussels, Belgium

Open source Software and collaborative projects, by Cédric Thomas, OW2 CEO

Check out Cedric Thomas' presentation on open source models, value chain and strategy to address what we call the Delivery Challenge of open source software and collaborative projects. 

Visit us on AppHub booth and try to win a connected watch!

Visit the AppHub booth at Net Futures 2016 (April 20-21) and discover the AppHub Store, a new open source catalog with free ready-to-use software services for the enterprise. Ask about the new AppHub Factory to generate cloud deployable images of your own software. Get the stamp on your dedicated postcard and validate your participation. The draw will take place on April 21 at 11:00am on OW2 booth.

CLOUD EXPO EUROPE 2016
ExCeL London
April 12-13, 2016
Register for your Pass Now! 

This year again, OW2 is involved as Educational Partner in organizing the Open Cloud Developer Park and its conference program.

Visit us in the Open Cloud Park (booth #CF9)

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The members, projects and partners represented there include:
- ProActive, represented by ActiveEon
- iKoula
- AppHub and OCCIware projects

Open Cloud Park Conference Program:
The Open Cloud Park will mix presentations of projects from the OW2 community, from the European Research program in the cloud area, as well as external presentation from the open cloud ecosystem at large. The program includes: 

Presentation Title	Speaker Name	Company/Organization	Slides
OCCIware year 1 milestone: Docker Studio, Cloud Studio Factory and pluggable runtime	Marc Dutoo	Open Wide
OW2 ProActive for Cloud Brain Diagnostics in the Largest Swiss Hospital	Denis Caromel & François Tournesac	ActiveEon
Turn any software into a SaaS solution thanks to Nanocloud	Cédric Carbone	Nanocloud
The Swagger Format becomes the Open API Specification: Standardizing the Descriptions of Web APIs for Interoperability	Steven Willmott	3Scale
How to deploy docker app into ikoula’s cloud with ansible	Nicolas Trauwaen	iKoula
BEACON Project - Enabling Federated Cloud Networking	Philippe Massonet	CETIC
Towards Quality-Aware Development of Big Data Applications with DICE Project	Giuliano Casale	Imperial College London
Security Service Level Agreement in the Cloud: the SPECS Framework	Massimiliano Rak	University of Naples
Reaching the Web Scale Experience with your Private Cloud	Dov Litmanovitz	StratoScale
Transforming the Way we Work:Proving the theory	Andrew Cheel	UNIFY
Taking the Drama out of Servicing Your DevOps Demand	Lee Carter	Bright Computing
Redefining Storage with SUSE Enterprise Storage	Stephen Mogg	SUSE
Using SUSE OpenStack Cloud to transition to a Software Defined Data Centre	Simon Briggs & Patrick Fitzgerald	Suse
ClouT: An approach to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing for IoT	Ciro Formisano	Engineering Group

OW2 will moderate a panel:
Why should you care about open source software and open standards ?
Speakers List (in progress):
Marc Dutoo, Open Wide - Steven Willmott, OpenAPI Initiative - Alan Sill, Open Grid Forum
Venue: Service Provider & Cloud Ecosystem Technology Theatre
Schedule: Wed April 13, from 12:00 to 12:40
Moderator: Cédric Thomas, OW2 CEO. 

Visit us booth G07 and win a connected watch!

About the Open Cloud Forum by OW2

The Open Cloud Forum by OW2 is a free conference fostering exchanges between open source cloud technologies end-users, experts and integrators. Based on open standards and interoperable components, the open cloud enjoys a growing success in the industry. Do not miss this opportunity to meet the designers of cloud innovations, as well as early adopters of open cloud solutions.  

Open Cloud Forum Conference Program (Room Amsterdam, Hall 5.1)

On March 23, 2016, the Open Cloud Forum by OW2, will offer the following sessions:

• 14:00-14:55: Presentations from OW2 Members and European Collaborative Projects

Speaker	Presentation Title	Slides
Alexandre lefebvre, UShareSoft	AppHub, The European Open Source Market Place
Marc Dutoo, Open Wide	OCCIware, Manage any kind of resource in the cloud
Sébastien Keller, Thales	CHOReVOLUTION, Dynamic and Secure Choreographies of Services for the Future Internet
Stéphane Laurière, OW2	OSCAR, The OW2 Community Quality Program

• 15:00-15:55: Cloud computing and open source: Is there a right governance strategy for open source software in the end-user organizations?
  Speakers: Alexandre Lefebvre, UShareSoft - Quentin Patou, Scalair - Ludovic Dubost, XWiki - Cédric Carbone, Nanocloud - Nicolas Trauwaen, Ikoula. 

• 16:00-16:55: Cloud, IoT and smart transportation: how to develop in a cloudified world?
  Speakers: Guillaume Laforge, OpenAPI Initiative - Marc Dutoo, Open Wide - Yousri Kouki, Linagora - Denis Caromel, ActiveEon

• 17:00-17:55: Cloud computing and Security: securing cloud access and providing end-to-end traceability
  Speakers: Benoit Mortier, OpenSides - Sébastien Keller, Thales - Clément Oudot, Savoir-Faire-Linux. 

• 18:00-18:55: OW2 General Assembly

About Cloud Computing World Expo

Do not miss the three-in-one exhibition floor and the main conference program:

• More information about Cloud Computing World Expo
• More information about Solutions Datacenter Management
• More information about IoT World

Cloudscape 2016
Dates: March 8-9, 2016
Venue: The Microsoft Centre
Rue Montoyer, 51
1000 Brussels.

AppHub, Easy Access to Innovation

The AppHup European Open Source Market Place project is represented at Cloudscape 2016. Live demonstrations of the AppHub platform will be given during the conference session and on the AppHub table in the exhibition during conference break times. 

An online presentation of the AppHub services is provided simultaneously on Cloudwatch Hub website.

And a position paper on AppHub project is printed and distributed during the event. 

Presentation Details:
Check out details on CloudScape Website.

Title:  Utilizing the cloud to bring European OSS projects and European Industry together
Speaker: Peter Deussen, Fraunhofer FOKUS and AppHub Project coordinator.