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Project of The Month:

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Telosys December 2024 Project of the month, announcing that version 4.2.0 is available. Telosys is a simple, lightweight code generator that can be used at different stages of a project's development cycle (initialization, updates, migrations, etc.). More

Projects Market Readiness Levels Focus : Knowage

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With a large customer base of mainstream users, Knowage is an established outsider in its market (MRL Level 8). The software is recognized. It is supported by an appropriate financing and an active community. View Knowage Market Readiness synthesis.

News and Events

  

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AlpOSS 0.2 

AlpOSS is coming back in 2025! We are pleased to co-organize again this local event with the City of Echirolles and Belledonne Communication, editor of Linphone. Join us February 20!

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OW2con'25 - June 17-18 in Paris (Châtillon) 0.3 

This year we are launching the OW2con CFP earlier than usual, this will leave more time for community members or external participants to think about great proposals and submit it. The deadline is February 23. Do not wait too long to send yours! 

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Open Source Webinar by OW2, March 6 at 4pm CET 0.4 

The next webinar will take place in March 6, 2025. Stay tuned for the agenda coming soon! Meanwhile check out the replay of the previous webinar with BlueMind OW2 project and Spare Cores from NGI Search. 

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NGI Zero Commons Fund - Results of Open Call #1 announced 0.5 

In October 2024 a first batch of 32 projects building the public internet is announced. For more information and detailed descriptions please go to NLnet website

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OW2 MRL (Market Readiness Levels) introduced at OSPO OnRamp Webinar Series, April 2024 0.7 

Learn more about the OW2 MRL (Market Readiness Levels) methodology to evaluate open source solutions. Join the OSPO Alliance OnRamp webinar, April 19 at 10:00am. Missed it? Checkout the replay

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What is OW2

  OW2 is an independent, non-profit community organisation dedicated to promoting industry-grade open source software for corporate information systems and to fostering their business ecosystems.

Why Join OW2

    Make a stand, focus your open source efforts, help steer the community, increase your open source visibility, promote your projects, and join renowned industry leaders, SMEs, academics and individuals.

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Submit a Project

  At OW2 it usually starts with an open source project. We provide resources, governance and help build awareness for your project. Checkout the project life cycle and fill in the submission form. Join the code base.

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  Facilitate the market adoption of your project with our suite of freely accessible quality tools and with OW2's unique Market Readiness Levels project assessment program.

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  The Good Governance initiative develops a blueprint to help implement corporate-wide open source policies and improve the competitiveness and sustainability of the European open source ecosystem.

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Collaborative Projects

Leveraging open source to foster collaborative innovation is a powerful strategy. OW2 is an experienced Open Source Software community for collaborative R&D projects. We provides community support and dissemination services and community building services to multinational open source collaborative projects and large collaborative R&D projects. In particular, OW2 has established itself as the reference dissemination and community platform for complex government-supported, open source-oriented projects.

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