OW2 is invited by our friends at SFScon 2020, to organize a presentation track.  OW2 projects are welcome to submit presentations, contact us as soon as possible if you are interested!

We are also happy to support and sponsor this event. 

Discover the full live streaming of the OW2 track :
https://www.sfscon.it/tracks/track-2-community-management/

1. Open Source ecosystem sustainability: bring the user into the equation

Speaker: Cédric Thomas, OW2

Schedule: 16h40 - 17h00

Abstract: This presentation is about engaging mainstream users for OSS ecosystem sustainability. Open source is becoming mainstream but there are still looming uncertainties about the sustainability of its ecosystem made of some keystone projects and many SMEs. The user is the missing component of the OSS ecosystem’s sustainability. We must put the user back into the equation.

This presentation introduces the Market Readiness Levels index, the OW2 OSS Good Governance initiative and the ReachOut beta-testing platform. three initiatives leveraging the resources and experience of OW2’s European community of open source projects with the ambition to engage mainstream users and make them more comfortable and more committed to the long-term term sustainability and success of the European open source ecosystem.

2. Software Ecosystems as Networks: Advances on the FASTEN project

Speaker: Paolo Boldi, Milano University

Schedule: 17h00 - 17h20 

Abstract: The goal of the EU project FASTEN is being able to perform a more sophisticated analysis of security-vulnerability propagation, licensing compliance,  and dependency risk profiles (among others) by relying on the call-level dependency network of the whole software ecosystem. We outline the purpose and structure of the project, and present some preliminary results.

3. DECODER: a toolbox for exploring, understanding and verifying software

Speaker: Virgile Prevosto, CEA

Schedule: 17h20 - 17h40. 

Abstract: This talk will present the main results of the DECODER H2020 project (https://www.decoder-project.eu). The main goal of the project is to offer a unified platform (the PKM, Persistent Knowledge Monitor) for hosting all kinds of documents related to a given software project, including source code, manuals, bug reports. A variety of tools are interacting with the PKM to fill it with additional information and/or take advantage of information provided by other tools. This includes notably the results of static analyses, program proofs, and test case generation on the one hand, and the extraction of more formal specifications from natural language documents using natural language
processing techniques. Nearly two years after its start, DECODER is finalizing the first prototypes of its main tools and aims at deploying a beta-testing campaign for the final year of the project.

4. Customize your data visualizations with KNOWAGE

Speaker: Davide Vernassa - Engineering Group

Schedule: 17h40 - 18h00. 

Abstract: Knowage is the open source suite for business analytics that satisfies traditional requirements as well as innovative and challenging informative domains, combining traditional data and big data sources into valuable and meaningful information. This talk will provide a general overview of the suite and its capabilities with a special focus on the features that allow the full customization of your analysis. More in detail, the speaker will show how to build a fully customized user experience on your data and information, using the native functions of Knowage together with the embedding of HTML code and R/Python scripts and the application mashup.

About SFScon
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 in the region. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.
The conference will be held on November 13th and 14th 2020 at NOI Techpark in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
SFScon 2020 will definitely take place, and if conditions make it necessary, il will move to a virtual event.

Participation is free of charge and registration is available on the events website: https://www.sfscon.it. 

Find more about the OW2 past presence at SFScon 2019

As part of the OW2con'20 face-to-face event and to complete the virtual part of this year's annual conference, we are pleased to confirm the : 

OW2 Community Day 2020
November 3
Grenoble, France

Please visit the dedicated Community Day menu on the OW2con'20 conference website for more information. 

Date: June 4, 2020
Venue:
Calle Cifuentes, 5
Madrid, Spain
Website: https://openexpoeurope.com/

About OW2 presence at Open Expo Europe 2020

OW2 has been invited to join Open Expo Europe this year again. 

We are coordinating a conference track of one full half-day (June 4th afternoon, so around 6/8 talks).
Message to OW2 members and projects leaders: contact us as soon as possible if you are interested. We are in addition media partner. 

Program of the OW2 track

Title of the session: "Open source for the enterprise information system by OW2". 

OW2 Project/Member	Presentation Title	Speaker
	Open source experiences in AI and DataViz for manufacturing market	Isabella Iennaco
	Autonomous Multi-Cloud serverless deployment and optimized management
	Building a customized knowledge base in minutes	Clément Aubin

About Open Expo Europe:
OpenExpo Europe is the largest Congress and Professional Fair on IT Innovation in Europe.
June 4th 2020, with more than 3500 attendees of the sector, professionals from all industries, communities, major international companies, decision makers, associations, foundations and institutions, technical profiles, experts and users of all levels to learn about the latest trends, services and tools. Increase the network of contacts, employment opportunities, generate leads and businesses and, know beforehand, all the benefits of open IT innovation.

OW2 will be present at FOSDEM 2020!

FOSDEM 2020
Dates: February Saturday 1- Sunday 2, 2020
Venue: ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels
More info: https://fosdem.org/2020/

Visit us on OW2 booth, Building K, Level 2, Group E

On display this year we will have the projects presented in the table below:  

Project	Main capabilities
	LemonLDAP::NG is LemonLDAP::NG is a modular WebSSO (Single Sign On) based on Apache::Session modules. It simplifies the build of a protected area with a few changes in the application.
	LSC LSC is a synchronization engine used in identity projects for user/group provisionning and synchronization between heterogeneous bases (LDAP, Active Directory, databases, WebServices...).
	FusionIAM is Federation of software to offer a global open source IAM solution.
	XWiki XWiki is a professional wiki that has powerful extensibility features such as scripting in pages, plugins and a highly modular architecture.
	Lutece is a portal engine which allows you to easily create your websites or intranets based on HTML or XML content.
	Rocket.Chat Rocket.Chat is a powerful open source web chat server enabling team collaborations and communications.
	Zenroom is Crypto VM for database and blockchain.

Attend the Devroom on "Dependency Management"

Date: Saturday February 1, 2020
Venue: Room UD2.119, from 15:00 to 19:00.
We are coordinating the preparation of a DevRoom on "Dependency Management", in collaboration with the FASTEN project team. 

Devroom Agenda

 
- 15:00 - 15:30 - FASTEN: Scaling static analyses to ecosystem, Georgios Gousios, Researcher, TUDelft  
- 15:30 - 16:00 - There's no sustainability problem in FOSS, Except that there is, Carol Smith, Senior Program Manager in the Open Source Programs Office, Microsoft and Duane O'Brie,  Head of Open Source at Indeed.com.
- 16:00 - 16:30 - Comparing dependency management issues across packaging ecosystems, Tom Mens, Software Engineering Lab, University of Mons, Belgium  
- 16:30 - 17:00 - Building Confidence & Overcoming Insecurity, The ultimate software supply chain self-help guide, Jeff McAffer, Senior Director of Product, GitHub
- 17:00 - 17:30 - Precise, cross-project code navigation at GitHub scale, Douglas Creager, Manager of Semantic Code team at GitHub
- 17:30 - 18:00 - Spack's new Concretizer Dependency solving is more than just SAT! Todd Gamblin, Senior Principal Member, Livermore Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- 18:00 - 18:45 - Package managers: resolve differences. Lively panel discussion on package management, William Bartholomew, Product Manager on the Security and Compliance team at GitHub.  

OW2 member Xwiki is also coordinating a DevRoom, on the topic Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications. 

Presentation at FOSDEM, February 2020, Brussels, Belgium

In the framework of OW2 OSS in Big Cities and OSS Governance initiatives, a workshop is organized on December 12, around the OW2 project Lutece, the Open City Service platform powered by City of Paris. 

This workshop is called by OW2, City of Paris, Mosslabs.io, Nearform, Eclipse, along with the Johns Hopkins University’s Open Source Program Office based in Baltimore, US. It is organized as part of the drive to grow the Lutece community, help other cities globally in their digital service transformation and aide in openness and transparency for smart cities adoption. 

The objective is to create and explore collaboration opportunities for OW2-related open source communities to assist the City of Baltimore and other cities globally.

As this is a follow-on workshop and working group since the Lutece Paris Open Source Forum last June, it will include also present updates and progress including the engagement around Open Source Program Offices from industry, cities, and universities.

Paris Open Source Summit
Date: December 10-11, 2019
Venue: Dock Pullman
87 Avenue des Magasins Généraux, 93300 Aubervilliers
Visit: https://www.opensourcesummit.paris/

The Paris Open Source Summit is Europe's premier event on open source, free software and open innovation. International conference summit, business fair and community event, OSS Paris highlights the driving role of open source technologies in current and future digital transformations. 

In 2019, OSS Paris becomes the TECH meeting of the open source ecosystem, which brings together for 2 days the contributors, decision-makers and users of technological bricks and open source solutions.

OW2 is as usual highly involved in POSS, with the organization of a large community booth in the exhibition and the coordination of several conference tracks. 

Come visit the OW2 Community Booth (#D21)!

Come and meet with community members and projects.
In addition to the OW2 pod presenting the community's project and activities at large, four exhibition pods will be organized, showcasing the projects presented below.

Project	Main capabilities
	Projects demonstrated :  Géoréso, BotMan, Cloud Paas, Kaas.
	LUTECE is a java based CMS/Portal and the open city service platform.
	[Research project] The Next Software Project Intelligence Platform.
	[Research project] Software Beta-testing for Research projects.
	[Research project] Software Testing AMPlification for the devOps Team.

Project Leaders from the OW2 code base are welcome to give a help in running the booth and showcase their project. Contact us quickly if you are interested. 

Attend one of our sessions

This year OW2 organizes four sessions, presented below. All sessions will take place in room Le Mixage. 

Open Source Community Summit

The theme this year is "Key Challenges of Mainstream Open Source”.
Schedule: December 10, from 02:00 to 06:30pm.
Agenda:

• Introduction to the Community Summit, Cédric Thomas, OW2 -
• Open source under attack, Thierry Carrez, OpenStack
• Open source sustainability, Simon Phipps, Meshed Insights
• Why do Open Source startup founders still live with their moms?, Mirko Boehm, Endocode
• No open source code without communities, Ensuring the future of open source communities, Emmanuel Lecharny, Apache Foundation
• OSS and Large Users: From Awareness to Sustainability, Frédéric Aatz, Microsoft -
• Everything Old is New Again: Current Tensions and Future Opportunities for Open Source, Leslie Hawthorn, Red Hat -
• The Political Challenge of Mainstreaming Open Source, Astor Nummeling Carlberg, Open Forum Europe

OSS in Big Cities

In this session executives in charge of large municipal information systems will discuss the tenets of their open source strategies.
Schedule: December 11, from 02:00 to 03:30pm.
Agenda:

• Lutece the Open City Service Platform, Philippe Bareille, City of Paris -
• Managing a open source enviroment for Public Administration: the CSI-Piemonte's experience, Alessandro Franco, CSI-Piemonte
• Standard for Public Code, Ben Cerveny, Public Code Foundation
• Title tbc, Esteve Almirall, City of Barcelona
• Organizing Open Source for Cities, Jacob Green, Mosslabs

Collaborative Innovation

This session will illustrate how multinational partners leverage open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs.
Schedule: December 11, from 09:30 to 11:00am.
Agenda: 

• DECODER, the Next Software Project Intelligence Platform, Virgile Prevosto, CEA. -
• FASTEN: Intelligent Package Management, Giasemi Seisa, Endocode -
• ReachOut: Software Beta-Testing for Research Projects, Cedric Thomas, OW2.
• CROSSMINER Developer-Centric Knowledge Mining from Large Open-Source Software Repositories, Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam  
• MELODIC: Enabling Cross-Cloud application management using open source, Geir Horn, Oslo University. 

OSS Governance

This session aims at developing and promoting the usage and sharing of free and open source software governance best practices among large users and systems integrators.
Schedule: December 11, from 11:00 to 12:30pm.
Agenda:

• How OSS governance benefits business, Christian Paterson, Orange -
• Measuring the OW2 projects market maturity, Cédric Thomas, OW2 -
• OSS governance and best practices: the MAIF example, François Desmier, MAIF -
• Riding the OSS Governance learning curve, Franck Villaume, Microsoft -
• InnerSource and open source governance, Florent Zara, Henix -

CROSSMINER, DECODER, and ReachOut H2020 projects are presented by OW2 CEO Cedric Thomas and several partners including Softeam and UPV, during this conference.

PROFES, the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, is among the top recognized software development and process improvement conferences. PROFES organization is composed of international recognized researchers in software engineering. PROFES 2019 is part of a series of conferences presented by https://profes-conferences.org

The objective of PROFES is to provide a premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to present and discuss experiences, ideas, innovations, as well as concerns related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product and service quality needs. PROFES especially welcomes contributions emerging from applied research to foster industry-academia collaborations of leading industries and research institutions.

SFScon 2019
November 15, 2019
Bolzano, Italy South Tyrol
https://www.sfscon.it/

OW2 has been invited to organize an OW2 conference track at SFSCon, one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software, organized in Italy South Tyrol region. 

Schedule: The OW2 conference track will take place on friday Nov. 15 after the afternoon break. 

OW2 Introduction

- Presentation Title:On FOSS Models and Upcoming Challenges
- Presentation Abstract: Navigating the ever changing world of FOSS can be confusing for developers, entrepreneurs and decision makers. This presentation is about making sense out of the complexity of FOSS, its long-term evolution and identifying the new challenges brought to open source communities as it reaches industry maturity. It can be useful to understand the four models that have been brought to us by FOSS’ 30+ year history: the community model, the enterprise model, the collaborative innovation model and the capitalistic model. As FOSS becomes mainstream and broaden its scope, new challenges emerge. The presentation will discuss six of them: the first concerns free riders, the second is uncontrolled re-use, the third one is SaaS, the fourth challenge is verticalisation, the fifth is from opportunistic foundations and the sixth, last but not least is AI.

- Speaker: Cédric Thomas, OW2 CEO. 

Knowage OW2 Project Presentation

- Presentation Title: KNOWAGE: the open source answer to the new needs in data analysis and exploration.
- Presentation Abstract: Knowage is the open source suite for business analytics that satisfies traditional requirements as well as innovative and challenging informative domains, combining traditional data and big data sources into valuable and meaningful information.  Knowage 7.0 comes with great and challenging features that really expand analytics capabilities. Just to mention few of them: data exploration through Solr/ElasticSearch index, native geographical exploration within cockpits and new wizards to faster explore your data.
- Speaker: Grazia Cazzin, Knowage Lab Director. 

FASTEN EU-funded Project Presentation

- Presentation title: "Software Ecosystems as Networks: the FASTEN project"
- Presentation Abstract: A popular form of software reuse involves linking open source software (OSS) libraries hosted on centralized code repositories, such as Maven or PyPI.  The size of such repositories keeps increasing at an astonishing speed, and the network of dependencies among the libraries they host is only a very crude way to reflect the real impact of those dependencies, especially for what concerns bugs and vulnerabilities. It is becoming more and more urgent to develop techniques that aim at analyzing dependencies at a finer level (i.e., at call level). This is precisely the goal of the EU project FASTEN. The purpose is to be able to perform a more sophisticated analysis of security-vulnerability propagation, licensing compliance,  and dependency risk profiles (among others) by relying on the call-level dependency network of the whole software ecosystem.
- Speaker: Paolo Boldi, Full Professor, Milano University

About SFSCon:
The South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFScon) is an event of international stature that attracts more and more visitors every year from Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

It is an annual conference dedicated to Free Software in South Tyrol that is aimed at the general public, but in particular at decision-makers in the public administration and business worlds. SFScon promotes the use of Free Software in IT infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region.