Dates: November 16-17
Venue: Les Docks de Paris

This year again OW2 is fully invested in this flagship event of the European open source community.

OW2 on the exhibition floor : Visit us booth C18/D19!

OW2 will be running a booth shared by several members and partners, including: ActiveEon, Wakanda, SpagoBI, iKoula, OpenSides, XWiki and OW2.

Visit us and learn more about major OW2 technologies and about our ongoing collaborative projects: discover and try the AppHub marketplace, CHOReVOLUTION and OCCIware platforms.

Do not miss the Free Beer Party on the booth! Join us, meet and network with community members on November 16, 5 or 6 pm.

OW2 in the conferences

This year again we called on our network to provide four sessions to the conference program:

1- Open Source Community Summit, Nov 17, 13:30 - 16:30, Room Venise
The Community Summit is an annual open workshop focusing on the growth and management of open source communities. This year, leaders and practitioners from free and open source software communities will discuss the role of open source communities in the software value chain.
Speakers: Sophie Gautier, LibreOffice - Simon Phipps, Public Software - Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse - Deborah Bryant, Red Hat - Frederic Aatz, Microsoft - Jean Baptiste Kempf, VideoLabs - Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Conservancy - Cedric Thomas, OW2. More details

2- European Collaborative Innovation, Nov 17, 11:00 - 12:30, Room Lausanne
Through a selection of state-of-the-art project presentations, this session will illustrate how multinational partners leverage open source to help shape the future of the IT industry in European publicly-funded collaborative innovation programs.
Speakers:  Marco Autili, CHOReVOLUTION project - Marc Dutoo, OCCIware Project - Peter Deussen, AppHub project - Alessandra Bagnato, MODELS project - Andrey Sadovykh, INTO-CPS project - Iyad Alshabani, PrEstoCloud project - Isabelle de Sutter, Systematic - Cedric Thomas, OW2. More details.

3- Open Source and Accessibility, November 17, 11:00 -13:00, Room Geneve
The social norm progresses and so do accessibility expectations. This session is about the open source technologies and best practices that all organizations can benefit from to improve their compliance with accessibility requirements. It will also introduce the AccessCamp event on November 18 from 9:00 to 12:00, a free contributive event to improve accessibility and FLOSS (Free and Libre Open Source Software). Registration is required.
Speakers: - Armony Altinier, Consultant, Koena - David Monnehay, eAccessibility consultant, Atalan - Christian Paterson, Director, Orange - Stephane Deschamps, Orange - Claire Grisard, Unapei - Alex Bernier, BrailleNet - Antoine Cao, DINSIC - Magali Garnero, April - Muriel Larrouy, Accessibility Ministry.More details.

4- OSS in Big Cities, Nov 17, 9:00 - 11:00 , Room Lausanne
Building on the success of last year's Open Source in Big Cities session, City of Paris helped launch the  "OW2 OSS in Big Cities initiative". This session is build as a public report where the managers of large municipal information systems will discuss how they make open source decisions.
Speakers: Jon Harper, Paris - Arris Oliemans, Amsterdam - Jan Marek Glogowski,  Munich - Fabien Cauchi, Metapolis Bordeaux.

5- OSS Project Metrics, November 16, 11:00 - 12:30, Room Geneve
Open source software is usually developed collaboratively on public platforms, or forges. This session is about the multiple data that can be extracted from these platforms and the ways it can be analysed in order to better assess the quality and sustainability of open source projects.
Speakers: - Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona - Nuno Britto, TripleCheck - Camille Moulin, Inno3 - Stéphane Lauriere, OW2.

See the Press release accouncing OW2 presence at Paris Open Source Summit 2016.

Visit Paris Open Source Summit website.