Election 2023: Corporate members

My main objective is to work with OW2 members and with the European Commission to position OW2 as the centre of Open Source Governance competence in Europe and the adviser of the European Commission on its Open Source strategy. Fraunhofer is involved in several important initiatives with planned Open Source outcomes relevant for OW2 and its members.  Additionally, I want to help OW2 to get public funding through participation in collaborative research projects. We had already a number of such project in the past.

I’m part of OW2 community since 2010, as Spago4Q team member, and afterwards participating as Engineering Group representative in Technology Council activities, as member and then as chairman. In 2017-2019 I collaborated with OW2 and other OW2 partners (XWiki and ActiveEon) in a EU research project, called STAMP (Software Testing AMPlification) and released under open source license, as Work Package leader on behalf of Engineering Group. Ultimately in the last five years I served the OW2 community, representing Engineering Group in the OW2 Board of Directors.
I'm strongly convinced that sharing knowledge and participation is the foundation for every community, bringing it to success, and this is particularly true for OW2. I continuously diffuse the knowledge about OSS and OW2 activities at Engineering Group, during my daily activities and lectures at Engineering IT & Management School. As a test manager at Engineering Group, I can bring this expertise to support OW2 initiatives with a specific focus on software quality. During this new year I wish to contribute to GGI, promoting Italian translation of the handbook in synergy with other Italian OW2 partners.

I am strong proponent of OSS as basis for infrastructure and public
projects. I believe there is a big potential that can be used more
efficiently, in business and academic collaboration and creating synergies
between taxpayers-sponsored projects and increasing their real life
adoption. After receiving a lot of help as a member of OW2 to open source
projects I am engaged in, I would like to continue my engagement at OW2 board, to work to help to achieve effects described above. 

I'll be happy to participate in the OW2 board, representing the XWiki
and CryptPad projects, in order to promote the following positions
initiatives :
- Ease the collaboration across the members of the consortium, by
providing ways to exchange on common goals, and ease creation of
bridges between these projects.
- Increase discoverability of the consortium to European, and more
broadly, international projects by bringing in external communities
who share the same values as we do.
- Promote projects and actors which value Open Source as a governance
model, and not simply as a publicity to gain more users.
Over the past 10 years, XWiki SAS has been involved in OW2 initiatives
by participating in research projects (STAMP, FASTEN most recently) or
organizing and participating in joint events.

Having served as VP on the OW2 board over the last year, I have worked hard to promote OW2 (for example, at the recent OpenUK event in London), attract new members, and help OW2 forge new relationships (for example, with the W3C). I have been a strong advocate and promoter of OW2 since my days of representing Orange on the board, which continues today with my work as an independent consultant.

With the unceasing rise of open source in all walks of life (private enterprise and government); pressing concerns about sustainability, digital sovereignty, digital privacy, ethical technology, etc.; incredible advances in the field of AI; fundamental questions about funding and security in open source, I believe that now more than ever, both France and Europe need a strong OW2 to provide a viable homegrown open source foundation; one that comes from Europe, understands its unique circumstances and promotes European open source projects and values.

I want to continue to serve you, the OW2 community, as an OW2 board member, and I also announce my intention to run for OW2 President this year.

I'm part of OW2 board since several years now and try to bring my help and opinions to help OW2 consortium to succeed in its goals: spread open source, help communities, gather people.

Open Source in Europe and in the World is getting bigger and bigger and OW2 must play its role in this ecosystem. In particular, it has been a precursor with Market Readiness Level and Good Governance Initiative. My wish is that OW2 stay connected to open source makers, communities, developers, contributors, and bring them the recognition they deserve.

The City of Paris, has been a proud member of OW2 since 2014, and started working on and with OW2 member projects ever since. It always has participated in OW2 community’s projects either as a pilot and/or user such as for the MRL initiative and more recently as a contributor to the Good Governance Initiative, since the City has had a commitment to Open Source since 2002 when it was the first French public administration to share the code of its signature city services platform Lutece. Ever since, its Open Source policy has grown to launch its own OSPO and implements it based on the GGI notebook and deployment tools.

We also actively participate in other open source networks within the European public space where we try our best to bring interest to our OW2 community and work, like we did share our feedback on two different talks at the last Paris Open Source Experience and to the European big cities CIOs.

Our goal is also to bring public space members to the OW2 table so we can work on similar initiative and share knowledge.

My program is in 7 points:

- Build an OW2 community and put it back in the center

- Convert OW2 from a french centric organization to an european one

- Create chapters in differents country with some some autonomy

- Reduce the number of initiatives to be able to more easily promote
them and explain why it is important outside our usual circles

- Ensure that in everything we do free software has priority including
in the
projects we accept and improve the processes for the acceptance of new
software

- Contribute to make the Technology council more independent and
empowered to make technical and process decision.

- Make software that is at ow2 more visible by developing synergies and
that these are clearly displayed on the project sheets