OSXP 2024

• Press Release including projects showcased (🇫🇷)
• Open Source Experience 2024 Photos

Event Preparation

As every year, OW2 and its community will be largely visible during OSXP.
We will organize a community booth, and Antoine Mottier, OW2 CTO, is part of the Program Committee. 

To find more about Open Source Experience 2024, please visit: https://www.opensource-experience.com/en/.

Visit us Booth #C20!

Come visit us during OSXP, we'll be pleased to welcome you and introduce the various projects and technologies presented on our booth. 

Project	Main capabilities
	CiteLibre  is part of the Lutece software suite provided by the City of Paris, to help loval administrations implement a broad range of digital services, right out of the box. City of Paris is Corporate Member of oW2 and Lutece part of OW2 code base.
	NGI Zero Commons Fund is a cascade funding project coordinated by NLnet created to share 21.6 million euros of R&D on technology commons. This effort is proposed by a large group of european organisations, academia, and non-proft organisations, including OW2.
	NGI Search  is a program from the European Commission  aiming to bring forth the next innovative software for searching, discovering and exploiting data on the internet.
	Murena is producer of the deGoogled operating system /e/OS and lead of ALLMA, an innovative tool to evaluate and integrate open-source LLMs into open-source forks of Android.
	Datafari Enterprise Search enables to find data wherever they are, whatever they are. Datafari comes with many connectors, a big data architecture, advanced use of Articifial Intelligence and Machine Learning to optimise Relevancy. Datafari is funded by NGI Search.
	Spare Cores, a Python-based open-source ecosystem, offers standardized inventory and performance evaluations for compute resources of public cloud and server providers. Spare Cores is funded by NGI Search.
	The OSS Good Governance initiative is a joint effort led by OW2 and many partners from the OSPO Alliance to grow awareness and expertise on how to properly use and contribute to open source software.

Attend our conferences

• December 4, 12:20 to 01:05: An alternate way to Gafam for Europe? About the EC NGI funding and how it empowers the ecosystem.
  Moderator:Pierre-Yves Gibello OW2 CEO
  Speakersseveral NGI Search projects: Gaël DUVAL (E FOUNDATION & MURENA)) ; Renaud Chaput (Mastodon CTO); Manon Corneille (Open Food Facts); Ludovic Dubost (XWiki SAS).
  Abstract: Faced with the data capitalism embodied by the American and Chinese Big Tech firms, another sovereign and free path is opening up in Europe: decentralised, interoperable commons based on open source, supported by a “broader social economy” ecosystem including businesses and academics with the support of public funds. This is the aim of the European NGI fund (Next Generation Internet): to support the ecosystem through cascade financing, accessible to small players who are too unstructured to obtain subsidies. A number of NGI award-winners have come here to talk about their use cases, what drives them and what’s at stake: Mastodon, /e/OS, Open Food Facts, CryptPad. OW2 is also involved in NGI, on the funding distribution side – as are other foundations, including NLnet, FSFE and APELL: this role underlines the importance of foundations as relays between the ecosystem and the political sphere. So it’s time to impose an alternative, European-style narrative – and it can be done!

• December 5, 11:30 to 11:50: Navigating the financing jungle.
  Speakers: Pierre-Yves Gibello OW2 CEO and Julien Paris - Cofounder and developer - multi .
  Abstract: Financing an open source project like Datami, from POC to maintenance, remains a long, uncharted journey that is specific to each project. Datami started out as a public open source project with financing from a range of sources: an ANCT grant in 2021 and the European NGI fund in 2024, but also from services provided to associations or open source contributions since 2019. Depending on the iterations, we continuously reinvent the financing strategies, and try out new, unexplored avenues such as SaaS or other co-financing systems that we adapt to our supporting structure and team. After years of experimenting, we believe that there are still avenues that neither we nor the institutions have yet opened up. One of these avenues is to imagine a form of collective management organisation – a “shared commons fund” – loosely inspired by the system invented by Beaumarchais in the 18th century to provide economic support to the publishing sector.

• December 5, 13:30 to 14:15. Round table "Unlocking the Strategic Value of Open Source in Business".
  An open discussion between members of the OSPO Alliance around what it takes to really make the best of open source for companies and organisations.
  Speakers: Nicolas Toussaint (Moderator, Orange), Silona Bonewald (leadingbit solutions), Sébastien Lejeune (Thales), Simon Clavier (SNCF) and Philippe Bareille (City of Paris). 

About OW2 Community Booth (Practical information for OW2 members and partners)

If you are an OW2 member, please consider joining us and sharing the village to showcase your projects and solutions. The Community village will be ideally located along OSXP main entrance and access to conference rooms. It has the capacity to welcome up to three/ four members on a total exhibition size of 18 sq.m. The illustration below gives an idea of the booth set up. 

The package includes (see also the illustration below):
✅ global signage and visibility as an exhibitor (entry on OSXP exhibitor directory)
✅ individual counter + stool
✅ the blue carpet
✅ the generic OW2 visual on partition including OW2 member logos
✅ individual signage for each booth with member logo and tagline
✅ a display monitor
✅ to be shared: brochure holder and meeting space (table)
✅ An optional visitor badge scanner.

Our booth location will be: # C20.

About Open Source Experience:
Led by Systematic Paris Région, Open Source Experience is the meeting place for the entire free software sector, which brings together more than 6 000 professionals for 2 days! A place for technological exchanges, meetings and business opportunities dedicated to open source and all open digital players.