Workshop about the future of Open Source Software and Open Source Hardware

Workshop Title: "Open Source beyond 2020 - Powering a Digital Europe"
Venue: Avenue de Beaulieu 25, 1160 Brussels (Auderghem)
Co-organizers: Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT)Directorate-General Informatics (DIGIT).
Schedule: 

• November 14
  - From 8h30 : Registration
  - 18h - 19h30 Reception

• November 15
  - From 8h30 : Registration
  - 15h00 : Closing Session

OW2 CEO Cédric Thomas is a speaker in the plenary panel representing OW2 and the European OSS communities along with Open Forum Europe, Suse and Red Hat. 

In his presentation (slide and script) Cedric Thomas highlighted the role of open source software as a vehicle for collaborative innovation and identified five directions for a relevant OSS public policy:

1- Redirect subsidies and adapt grant processes. The European Commission should make OSS the de facto IP regime for research projects; proprietary IP should be the exception rather than the norm and be substantiated. The consortium agreement template proposed to research projects should be updated accordingly.
2- Reduce uncertainty, simplify compliance. It would be useful to facilitate the management of license compliance by introducing an EU-wide legal framework defining open source license compatibilities that would supersede national legislations and facilitate the management of software with different licenses.
3- Focus on supply push–demand pull interaction. Innovation, and particularly open source innovation, is nothing without strong demand. The Commission should establish financial incentives to reward users who engage with open source communities, who support the EU OSS ecosystem and contribute back to EU-led OSS projects.
4- Shift the status of OSS from unorthodox to normal. The European Commission should show its commitment and send a powerful signal in favor of open source by engaging with policy makers and business leaders in a campaign of events and outreach initiatives to pass the message that OSS is not weird and that it creates value for the benefit of all.
5- Develop EU OSS incubation programme. There are existing European projects and communities worthy of support. This could be a well targeted fine-grained initiative to help high-potential EU-driven OSS projects and communities leveraging cross-border EU markets to reach a critical mass providing them with both credibility and sustainability.

 
Panel 1: Role of Open Source as Innovation enabler
Schedule: November 14, 9h45 - 11h15
Abstract: During the past 15 years, Open Source Software has experienced a dramatic expansion and has constituted a cornerstone that supports many  new  products.  We  are  now  starting  a  new  decade  and  Open Source  seems  up  to  fit  for  innovation  and  economic  development.What  are  the  emerging,  OSS  based,  business  models?  What  is  the 2economic  impact  of  OSS?  What  are  the  issues  that  may  hinder  the optimal contribution of Open Source to the economy? How can we reach the full potential of Open Source?  What new business model are  working?  What  are  the  main  barriers?  Should  there  be  a  role for policy setting? What should public service do? 

Link to detailed agenda. 

Link to registration. 

OW2 is pleased to take part in EclipseCon Europe this year again. 

For more information about EclipseCon Europe, please visit: https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2019/. 

OW2 will introduce two EU-funded H2020 projects in the Research area:
- STAMP
- ReachOut

OW2 is also participating in the session dedicated to Open Source Compliance and Governance during the Eclipse Community Day, on Monday October 21. We will present OW2's market readiness methodology and our CROSSMINER use case.

Find more information: https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECE2019_OpenSourceCompliance

OW2 Media Sponsor and Supporter:
We will be this year again Media Sponsor of EclipseCon Europe. As Media Sponsor, we are granted the opportunity to get one Full Pass for free, please contact us if you are interested. 

About EclipseCon Europe EclipseCon Europe is the Eclipse Foundation’s primary event in Europe. It is designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to learn, explore, share and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse and its member companies. EclipseCon is all about community. Contributors, adopters, extenders, service providers, consumers and business and research organizations gather to share their expertise and learn from each other. EclipseCon delivers networking opportunities that lead to synergies in the community, as well as opportunities to give and receive help on specific technical issues or to generate business opportunities.

Journées PERL 2019
June 19-22, 2019
Strasbourg, France
Website: https://journeesperl.fr/jp2019/

Venue: Strasbourg University (Atrium) (map)

We're proud to announce that two OW2 projects, the LemonLDAP::NG SSO manager)and the sympa mailing list manager are joining the french perl workshop 2019 (aka Journées perl) to provide talks, hackathons and workshops.  

Both of them are wildly used and beloved OW2 projects. 

If you're interesting in technical topics around projects writen in guile or perl, Don't hesitate to join (and even propose an event): this conference is free, very welcoming.

Feedback from LemonLDAP::NG Hackaton and contributors proposals discussed during the event: 

• It is not easy to understand how LL::NG works, and what is its goal. We must explain what is SSO, for example with a user story, and how LL::NG implements it.

• We should do the difference between the "interception" mode (Handler) and "identity provider" mode, which are two different ways to use LL::NG, even if they can be combined.

• Our documentation is very technical and hard to understand, and we propose a large choice of backends. We should have a first documentation with our best practices, so user do not need to choose between Apache /Nginx, PostgreSQL/..., etc. Then we can have the advanced documentation to use other backends.

• We need to better explain how to set up High Availibility, what are macros, custom functions, ...

• Provide an API to edit configuration

• Provide a "dev" mode in Handler : like we have rules.json for devops Handler, we could have id.json to store a fake identity. In this mode, we don't need any SSO cookie, the Handler will push the identity to the application. This allows a developper to test the Handler on its application.

• Better communication on new features: if they are "beta" we should warn users so they test it well before using it in production

• Plugin publication: we could use CPAN as they are Perl modules. Using dzil to manage these modules could ease the development and publication. Else create a "plugins" repository in OW2 gitlab.

OW2 will be at Devoxx with the STAMP project team.
Two STAMP presentations proposals have been accepted in Devoxx program! (please see details below, in french). 

More information about Devoxx: https://www.devoxx.fr/

Presentation 1: L'Intégration Continue comme partenaire pour des suggestions d'amélioration des tests
Intervenant: Caroline Landry (INRIA)
Résumé: Abstract: Le CI (Intégration Continue) exécute en continu les tests unitaires et d'intégration pour donner aux développeurs un retour d'information sur la qualité du code. Cependant, il fournit peu de rétroaction sur la qualité des cas de test eux-mêmes. Cet exposé présente deux techniques automatiques qui fonctionnent dans le CI afin de suggérer les faiblesses et les améliorations possibles des cas de test.
La première technique est basée sur du test par mutation. Elle identifie les méthodes pseudo-testées : méthodes qui sont couvertes par la suite de tests mais qui peuvent être complètement supprimées sans qu'aucun cas de test n'échoue. Ceci indique que les cas de test qui couvrent ces méthodes doivent être améliorés pour observer et spécifier le comportement de manière plus approfondie. La seconde technique est basée sur l'amplification de test : elle suggère des améliorations possibles des cas de test pour mieux tester les méthodes pseudo-testées. Les deux techniques sont implémentées pour Java et sont disponibles sous forme d'outils open source : Descartes et DSpot.

Presentation 2: Tests fonctionnels avec Docker et TestContainers>
Intervenant: Vincent Massol, XWiki
Résumé:
En tant que développeur, qu'il est bon d'être capable de débugguer sur sa machine un problème survenant en production, dans une configuration spécifique ! C'est ce que permet le framework TestContainers. Il permet de piloter Docker directement depuis ses tests JUnit et donc d'avoir un mécanisme extrêmement efficace pour déployer ses tests fonctionnels dans un environnement donné.

Cette session présentera TestContainers, appliqué à un cas réel avec une démonstration de comment l'utiliser pour effectuer des tests impliquant une base de données, un moteur de Servlet et plus. Au programme: Intégration JUnit5, création d'images Docker custom, enregistrement automatique de vidéos des tests, intégration avec un job Jenkins pipeline pour itérer sur les différentes configurations à tester.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

The OW2 community is represented at FOSDEM 2019 exhibition on XWiki booth. Many thanks to Xwiki team for the support! 

In addition, XWiki and LemonLDAP::NG OW2 projects are presented in the main conference program and XWiki Community is coordinating a developer room. 

XWiki presentation:
Presentation Title: XWiki: a collaborative apps development platform

Developer room coordinated by XWiki: Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications
Schedule: Saturday February 2 from 3:00pm tp 7:00pm.
Detailed program and videos available at: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/trac/collaborative_information_and_content_management_applications/

LemonLDAP::NG presentation:
Schedule: Sunday February 3 from 15:20 to 15:35 (lightning talk).
Details and video available at: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/lemonldap/

Find more information about FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2019/

The 2018 award contest "Champion of Free Software" took place in the framework of the Paris Open Source Summit. Organized for the third edition, this contest is proposed by the CNLL in coordination with french open source regional clusters.

The prizes were announced and distributed during the Summit's opening ceremony, on December 4. 

We are very proud to announce that out of five “Champion of Free Software” prizes, three went to OW2 members and projects: 

• Strategy prize - Prix de la meilleure stratégie Open Source 2018 - to Lutece
• Ethics prize - Prix de l’entreprise pour un numérique ouvert et éthique 2018 - to XWiki
• Innovation prize - Prix de l’innovation 2018 - to ActiveEon

The two other prizes were won by:

• Best project prize to  LA MAIF for its initiative OSSbyMAIF. 
• Internationalization prize to NEXEDI

Find more about the contest (website in french).
Find more about OW2 at Paris Open Source Summit. 

Read the Press Release (PDF, in english). 

Come Exhibit with OW2 in the Open Source Village at Cloud Expo Europe, Paris

A unique opportunity for OW2 members and supporters

OW2 is Associate Partner of Cloud Expo Europe and is actively preparing its participation in the event with a collective open source booth. We are pleased to offer our members and supporters the opportunity to leverage the success of several participations in Cloud Expo Europe London. Come join OW2 and share the booth with us. We have negotiated special conditions for OW2 members and supporters.

Quality and Privacy in the Cloud

As you know, OW2 has been a strong proponent of advanced software engineering and software quality on the cloud. This year, as European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25, 2018, the privacy protection theme is becoming intertwined with software quality.

Booth proposal

We organize a collective open source booth tagged as the Cloud Expo Europe "Open Source Village", conveniently located in the exhibition (booth #L32), and including two open spaces, see the floor plan. We have negotiated very attractive financial conditions, in order to allow 2 to 4 members to join us. 

Participating Members and Partners

Members/Partners	Main activity
	XWiki specializes in professional collaborative solutions. It delivers a collaborative platform, based on the open source project "XWiki", and enables to better organize information.
	Anybox is a New Generation of Digital Services Company: 100% remote team, decentralized management and open-source DNA with Python, Linux and Docker specialization. It brings value, quality, freedom and agility in software projects helping companies with their digital transformation. AnyBox also build innovative products for cloud, large companies and developers.
	European-funded R&D project leveraging advanced research in automatic test generation. STAMP aims at pushing automation in DevOps one step further through innovative methods of test amplification.

Contact

@ OW2 members: please contact Catherine Nuel quickly if you would be interested in co-exhibiting or would like more information.  

OW2 is Partner of B-Boost Open Source International Convention

OW2 supports B-Boost, a new business convention around free software and open source topics, held on November 6-7 in Bordeaux. 

Cédric Thomas OW2 CEO will give a presentation/
Title: How OSS Is Changing The Software Industry (slides)
Schedule: November 7, from 9:30 to 10:30.  

B-Boost is a new business convention around free software and open source topics. Recognized speakers are hosting more than 90 conferences, on 2 days, around 8 thematic themes. Many "Side events" will complete this experience in a high-end universe.

Designed by and for the open digital actors, this first edition will revolve around the theme "Open Digital Transformation" adapted for different use cases «Agriculture, health, sustainable development, aeronautics and space, industries, DevOps... ».

Co-organized by Aquinetic, the Conseil National du Logiciel Libre and Systematic-Paris-region and with the support of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Bordeaux Métropole, the CCI Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the CCI Bordeaux Gironde and Invest in Bordeaux, B-Boost has for ambition to accelerate the development of the Open source industry.

Find more information : https://b-boost.fr/en/ or register now. 

Place: Henix, Montrouge
Date: 24 October 2018
From: 7:30PM To: 10:00PM
Speakers: Henry Coles (NCR), Benoit Baudry (KTH), Vincent Massol (XWiki)

The ParisJUG meeting, co-organized with XWiki and OW2, welcomes software testing professionals for a dedicated session on mutation testing.
Several experts will present the latest innovations in Java software testing automation, including Henry Coles (NCR), the author of PIT mutation tool, Benoit Baudry, Professor at KTH and STAMP project leader and Vincent Massol (XWiki).

This event marked the official launch of the STAMP beta testing campaign 

Agenda

07:30PM - 08:30PM: Making Mutants work for you
Speaker: Henry Coles, NCR Edinburgh.

Abstract: Mutation testing is a once obscure development technique that dates back to the 1970s. It deliberately introduces bugs into your code, then sees if your tests can find them.
Thanks to the open source tool pitest mutation testing has recently become much more widely used in the Java community.
When people talk about mutation testing they often talk about "100% code coverage" but is this what it is really about?
This session will cover the theory behind mutation testing and how to use it, but most importantly it will look at what it's really for and how it can make your life easier.

08:30PM - 09:00PM: Buffet and networking

09:00PM - 10:00PM: New types of tests for Java projects
Speaker: Vincent Massol, XWiki

Abstract:
This talk will demonstrate advanced testing practices coming from the STAMP research project and applied to the XWiki open source project:

• Testing for coverage with Jacoco and defining a viable strategy for slowly improving the situation
• Testing the quality of your tests with Descartes Mutation testing
• Automatically enriching your test suite with DSpot
• Testing various configurations with Docker containers and Jenkins
• Generating tests automatically from production stack traces

ParisJUG presentations

• Vincent Massol, XWiki CTO:
  
  

• Henry Coles, NCR Edinburgh:
  Download the slides (PDF).

• Four minutes timelapse video Oct 24, 2018
  Warning USE Media Macro instead this one 

Date: October 23-25, 2018
Venue: Ludwigsburg, Germany
Website: https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2018

OW2 is Media Partner of EclipseCon Europe 2018. 

The conference program is published now and registration is open. 

We are currently exploring opportunities for OW2 members or projects to be represented there. Stay tuned for more information soon. 

About EclipseCon Europe
EclipseCon Europe is the Eclipse Foundation’s primary European event designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to learn, explore, share and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse and its member companies.
EclipseCon is all about community. Contributors, adopters, extenders, service providers, consumers and business and research organizations gather to share their expertise and learn from each other. EclipseCon delivers networking opportunities that lead to synergies in the community, as well as opportunities to give and receive help on specific technical issues or to generate business opportunities.