September 2016 Newsletter



[OW2 Newsletter - September 2016 - From the OW2 Management Office]

Dear OW2 Members, dear All,

OW2con'16 is just a couple of weeks away and of course it is our topic of the month! Our theme “Code to Product, Addressing the Delivery Challenge of Open Source Software” reflects our determination to help OW2 projects rise to the challenge of what the market expects.

View the Program!OW2con'16 Annual conference : Code to Productregister now it's free !

Do not miss our keynote speakers! David A. Wheeler presents the Linux Foundation' program for the assessment of open source project quality and market readiness. Craig Box will share with us how Google takes the container revolution one step further with Kubernetes.

Remember: September 21-22. If you can make it to Paris, make sure you attend. And, this year again, it's free of charge thanks to our sponsors:

Gold Sponsors

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Silver Sponsors

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Bronze Sponsors

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Thank you for your on-going support,

Cedric Thomas

PS: Project leaders: Do not forget to use the OW2 Forge to tell everybody about your project updates. News will appear on the OW2 forge, our home page and in this newsletter

Project News

New Projects

Two new projects have been submitted to the OW2 code base:

  • SeedStack, competing with other frameworks such as Spring, Play or Grails, SeedStack is an application framework led by PSA Peugeot Citroën, used to develop a broad spectrum of applications like CLI tools, REST micro-services and full-blown Web applications.
  • Waarp, a Managed File Transfer solution focusing on enhancing the reliability and security of file transfers in scalable IT systems. The project is backed by the eponym French company who joined OW2 in May 2016.

Projects Updates

Community News

OW2con'16, September 21-22, Paris

Registration is open! Check out the program and request your free badge now. To Project Leaders: last chance to submit your project for the OW2con'16 Award contest. More.

OW2 International Programming Contest

The Contest has entered the evaluation phase. Mentors are now assessing the submissions. The winners will be announced during the Contest Awards Ceremony, 12-13 October, in Beijing. More.

Cloud Forward Conference, October 18-20, Madrid

An AppHub Workshop will be organized during Cloud Forward. And the marketplace will be presented by Peter Deussen, project coordinator, Wed. 19 Oct., 15:00-16:00. More.

OpenStack Summit, October 24-28, Barcelona

Visit booth #C16! OW2 will demonstrate collaborative R&D projects OCCIware and AppHub. Oher OW2 code base projects are welcome to join us. Contact us. More.

EclipseCon Europe, October 25-27, Ludwigsburg

OW2 will showcase CHOReVOLUTION's Eclipse-based Studio that allows the development of "Dynamic and Secure Choreographies of Services for the Future Internet". More.

CLASS Conference, November 8-9, Ljubljana

A member of the program committee OW2 CEO will give a talk at the conference. AppHub and CHOReVOLUTON projects will also be presented at the conference. More.

Paris Open Source Summit, November 16-17

Visit our community booth shared with Wakanda, SpagoBI, ActiveEon, iKoula, OpenSides and Xwiki. OW2 is actively involved in POSS 2016 conference program and co-organizing four conference tracks. More.

In the OW2 Community Ecosystem

Open Source School: The first school specialised in Open Source Software is now accepting applications. OW2 is a supporting partner of the school.

 

Job offer: Inria Rennes is seeking a technical project manager for an H2020 project focusing on test amplification in DevOps environment. OW2 is part of the project. Read the job offer.

 

Job offer: Inria Lille opens postdoc and engineer positions for the OCCiware R&D project. Read the job offer (in French).

OW2 Community Notices

 

2016 Board of Directors: The next meeting of the OW2 Board of Directors will be a face-to-face meeting on September 20, 2016, in Paris.
 

Outlook

OSCON Europe, October 17-20, London

We have applied for a booth in the non-profit pavilion. Stay tuned for more details and contact us if you would be interested in joining or exhibiting with us.

CeBIT, March 20-24, 2017, Hannover

We plan to have a booth at the CeBIT conference in 2017 with the CHOReVOLUTION project. Let us know if you are interested in joining us and... stay tuned!