OW2 is Community Sponsor of the upcoming SFScon conference in Bolzano, Italy. 

SFScon : A conference all about Free Software
November 11-12
Bolzano, Italy
More information: https://www.sfscon.it/

This year's SFScon will be held in blend mode, on-site and online. 

OW2 will be visible on a booth run by our colleagues from Knowage Labs (Engineering Group). 

OW2 will also organize a track of conference on Friday November 11 early afternooon, with two presentations to be given by our partners from RIOS in Italy. 

- Title: OW2 and RIOS teaming up to boost the open source impact
Subtitle: Two organizations working together to support the growth of open source ecosystems in Europe
Abstract: Established in 2007 as a non-profit organisation, OW2 is an independent community dedicated to promoting open source software for information systems and fostering their business ecosystems. OW2 federates 50+ organizations and 2500+ IT professionals worldwide. OW2 hosts 50+ technology Projects. RIOS is an Italian network of companies established in 2015 aiming to improve open source adoption and to build sustainable businesses around it
OW2 and RIOS are working together to foster collaboration between European open-source stakeholders.
Speaker Name: Stefano Pampaloni, Seacom
See the slides (PDF).

- Title: OSPO Alliance and the Good Governance Initiative
Abstract: The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) 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. The GGI was initiated by OW2 and is developed by the OSPO Alliance. This presentation will give an overview of the initiative, its organization, roadmap, first achievements and next steps.
Speaker Name: Valentina Del Prette, Seacom
See the slides (PDF)

Watch out the replay of the OW2 track at SFScon. 

Please contact us if you would like a speaking slot in this track. 

Open Source Experience
November 8-9, 2022
Venue: Paris Palais des Congrès Porte Maillot
Website: https://www.opensource-experience.com/event/

Following the success of last year's OW2 participation at Open Source Experience (OSXP), we will renew our participation this year again. 

OW2 Community Booth

Come and meet with community members and projects on booth #C16.
We will have a shared community booth with 5 individuals exhibition pods.
Confirmed pods include: 

Project	Main capabilities
	The OSS Good Governance initiative is a joint effort led by OW2 and gathering OW2 members and non-members to grow awareness and expertise on how to properly use and contribute to open source software. It is supported by the OSPO Alliance.
	XWiki is a professional wiki that has powerful extensibility features such as scripting in pages, plugins and a highly modular architecture.
	Fusion Directory is an Identity Management Solution (IAM). Now with its own marketplace, the software simplifies and harmonizes identity management while focusing on security.
	MORPHEMIC is a unique way of adapting and optimizing Cloud computing applications. The project is an extension of MELODIC which is a multi-cloud platform developed in the H2020 project.
	NGI Search funds and supports the next innovative software for searching, discovering and exploiting data and resources in general on the internet and the web.

OW2 in three round tables

(Find more information in the "OW2 at OSXP" French Press Release).

1/ Développer les OSPO avec 
l’initiative de bonne gouvernance
Developing OSPOs with the Good Governance Initiative
Date : November 8, 11:10 - 11:55
Abstract: As the software engineering field matures, properly managing open source software and culture within organisations has become more important than ever. And this goes far beyond license or IP compliance, to reach to sustainability, training, caring, funding, and thinking big with open source. In this context, the Good Governance Initiative offers a much-needed set of actionnable guidelines to help frame, build and develop OSPOs, both for the organisation itself and for the whole ecosystem.
Speakers:

• Silona BONEWALD - Executive Director - IEEE SA Open
• Pierre-Yves GIBELLO - CEO - OW2
• Gaël BLONDELLE - VP Ecosystem Development - Eclipse Foundation
• Christian PATERSON - Open Source Strategy Expert - Open Up
• Boris BALDASSARI - Moderator - Eclipse Foundation

2/ Gouvernance open source 
dans les grandes organisations
Open source governance in large organisations
Date : November 8, 17:45 - 18:15,  dans l'Open CIO Summit 

Speakers:

• Catherine NUEL - Marketing Manager - OW2
• François DESMIER - Architecte solutions - MAIF
• Philippe BAREILLE - Chargé de mission OSS - Ville de PARIS
• Boris BALDASSARI - Consultant - Eclipse Foundation
• Frédéric AATZ - Resp. Marketing AZURE - Microsoft France

3/ Risques et opportunités pour les éditeurs européens open source face aux géants de l’IT
Risks and opportunities for European OSS providers facing IT giants
Date: November 9, from 15:30 to 16:15.
Abstract: European open source publishers are reporting notable growth and turning increasingly to the SaaS model. They explain how their open source approach differentiates them from major international publishers. Does joining together, like in the Euclidia alliance, or communities such as OW2 or Eclipse, make it easier to resist? How do they manage to adapt their business models to cloud subscriptions and managed services?
Speakers:

• Catherine Tillous - Directrice générale - MAKINA CORPUS
• Gilles VITON - Head of Open Source program - Orange France
• Ludovic DUBOST - CEO - XWiki
• Laurent Marie - CEO - Worteks
• Olivier Bouzereau - Community Coordinator - OW2

About Open Source Experience

 
Open Source Experience is collocated with SIDO, the 1st event dedicated to the convergence of IoT, IA, XR & Robotics technologies. Both events brings together members from all industries for two days with nearly 200 exhibitors, 40 conferences and workshops led by 120 speakers. The combination of the two events will help to decompartmentalize the technological worlds. Visit Open Source Experience website: https://www.opensource-experience.com/

RIOS Open Source Week

Date: November 7-9, 2022
Venue: Roma and Online
Website: https://opensourceweek.it/

We are proud to be this year again partner of the Open Source Week organized by OW2 Associate Organization RIOS (Rete Italian Open Source). 

Many thanks to RIOS colleagues for having accepted to represent OW2 in the conferences. 

On November 7, Valentina Del Prete presented the Good Governance Initiative and the OSPO Alliance. Details are presented below. 

Title: GGI – Good Governance Initiative

Abstract (Italian): All’interno dell’OSPO Alliance è stato stilato un vero e proprio vademecum per aiutare le aziende ad analizzare il loro livello di competenze nell’utilizzo di software open source. Il primo passo per la creazione di un Open Source Programma Office. 

The RIOS Open Source Week is colocated with Summit Connect Roma co-organized by Red Hat and Intel (more information: https://www.redhat.com/it/events/summit-connect-rome-2022. 

See the slides (PDF). 

Euclidia Now event

Date : September 29th 12:30-18:00

Venue:
Comet Meetings, Place Stéphanie
20 1050 Brussels, Belgium

OW2 has been invited to join this first event from Euclidia. Pierre-Yves Gibello OW2 CEO gave an introduction about OW2. 

"Towards A Resilient Cloud Infrastructure in Europe" will feature speakers from the political and industrial realm to discuss the future of cloud infrastructure and Europen cloud technology creators. 

More information, access to the detailed agenda and to the replay: https://www.euclidia.eu/euclidia-Website.Euclidia.Now.Brussels

In addition of the main OW2con'22 event taking place online on June 8-9, OW2 organizes a second event, face-to-face this time : 

OW2 15 Year Anniversary

Date: June 29-30
Venue : Paris Porte de Versailles (in parallel of the conference Cloud-Datacenter+infra)

The OW2 15 Year Anniversary will include: 

• A conference session in parallel of the conference Cloud-Datacenter+Infra

• The 2022 OW2 Best Project Awards ceremony

• A Social Event on June 29 evening

To find more about OW2 15 Year Anniversary, please visit: https://www.ow2con.org/view/2022/15-year-Anniversary 

OW2 15 Year Anniversary

As part of its annual conference OW2con'22, we will organize there the "OW2 15 Year Anniversary" in-person event.
OW2 15 Year Anniversary include:
- a conference session on 6/29 at 4:30 p.m. and continued on 6/30 until noon.
- OW2 Best Project Awards ceremony starting
- a cocktail/social event on June 29 evening

OW2 will be present at the conference Cloud-Datacenter + Infra: 

Date: June 29-30, 2022
Venue: Paris – Porte de Versailles (Hall 5.1, booth D14) 

OW2 community booth D14

Meet the community and the OW2 team on its booth, Hall 5.1.
Exhibition is opened from 8:00 to 18:00 June 29 and 30. 

Conference Open Cloud by OW2 - Renoir Room

The conference will take place on June 29 from 16:30 to 18h and on June 30 from 9h00 to 12h00 in the Renoir room.
It includes: 

• 2 OW2 Testimony talks
• Round table #1: on Open Source Governance
• OW2con'22 Best Project Awards ceremony
• Presentations of OW2 Open Source solutions for the Cloud 
• Round table #2: Risks and opportunities for European open source publishers facing cloud giants
• Social event
  
  Read the French Press Release: https://www.ow2.org/view/Press_Releases/Symposium_OpenCloud_OW2
  Find more about the Open Cloud by OW2 agenda: https://www.ow2con.org/view/2022/15-year-Anniversary
  Find more information about the Cloud-Datacenter+Infra conference: https://www.datacenter-cloud.com/

View the OW2 booth at the Cloud Symposium and the social event

Open Infra Summit
June 7-9, 2022
Berlin, Germany

Find more information: https://openinfra.dev/summit/

As an OpenInfra Foundation Associate Member, OW2 members are granted a discount code for 15% off registration for for the 2022 summit : OPENINFRA_OW215.

Feel free to use this and/or distribute to your colleagues! 

About Open Infra Foundation: With over 100,000 members in 187 countries, the OpenInfra Foundation helps open source communities build the tools infrastructure operators need for Data Center Clouds, 5G, Edge, Containers, CI/CD and beyond. 

FLOSSCon is a free event organized by FLOSSITA association (FLOSS in the Alps) for communities and open source users. 

The 2022 FLOSSCon will take place on June 2-3 in Grenoble, France. 

Venue:
IMAG University Campus
Saint Martin-d'Hères 

OW2 is sponsor of the FLOSSCon 2022 and will give a presentation. 

Discover the OW2 presentation by Pierre-Yves Gibello, OW2 CEO:

For more information about FLOSSCon, please visit: https://www.flosscon.org/conferences/FLOSSCon2022

We are co-organizing a Devroom on "SOFTWARE COMPOSITION AND DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT" at FOSDEM and running an OW2 virtual booth! 

About the Devroom

 
As we all assemble more and more complex software from an ever growing number of free and open source software components, knowing what's in our code is a must for security, legal and operational reasons.

To deal with those new challenges a set of techniques and tools have emerged and are spanning topics from dependency management to software composition analysis (SCA). They should help you to determine which software dependencies are embedded in your project, where and how (directly or indirectly), as well as their origin, licensing, vulnerabilities, quality and other important attributes.

Are you contributing to a FOSS project that aims to make the lives of developers easier? You are looking for what's coming next to help you deal with your project's long list of dependencies? If so, come and join us at FOSDEM 2022 to share your techniques, experiences, and demo your FOSS tools to collaborate towards a better FOSS toolchain.

See the CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: https://github.com/software-composition-analysis/fosdem-2022-devroom

See the Devroom presentation of FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/software_composition_and_dependency_management/

To access to the replays of the presentations, please visit: https://www.fasten-project.eu/view/Events/FOSDEM_2022

Devroom Agenda

Visit us on OW2 virtual booth

Join us on OW2 virtual booth and discuss with OW2 Management Office and with project leaders.