February 2025 Newsletter

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[OW2 Newsletter - February 2025 - From the OW2 Management Office]

Dear OW2 Members, dear All,

After a fruitful FOSDEM in Brussels along with some of our members and associate organizations, surrounded with tremendous side events including the European Open Source Awards and OFE's Open Source Policy Summit, we are now in the rush for our French regional event, AlpOSS, co-organized with Linphone and the City of Echirolles: join us on February 20 at the Echirolles City Hall, it is free and friendly, registration here.

Then if you envisage to speak at OW2con'25, June 17/18 in Paris, the CfP closes soon: Feb.23! So please, do not forget to submit your talk.
It is also possible to sponsor OW2con: as of now, we have three sponsors committed, so there is still some room - and the earlier the better to ensure your organization a maximum visibility.

Among others news, we are happy to inform our community that our President, Christian Paterson, recently authored a new book about FOSS: "Open Source, a capitalistic value engine", covered by a Creative Commons free license (CC-BY). Paperback versions can be purchased online - with also an e-book version.

And that OW2 has officially - and proudly - endorsed OSI's Open Source AI definition!

Last but not least, for all our members, corporate or individuals: the OW2 election period for the Board of Directors is starting now, so feel free to candidate for a seat! Instructions were just sent by email on members mailing lists, or you may read them on our board election page.

Thanking you for your ongoing support to open source,

The OW2 Management Office

PS: Project leaders: Please use your project dashboard to publish your updates. Your news will appear on our Project Marketplace home page and in this newsletter.

Project News

Project Updates

Jeka in its latest releases get a lot of polishing: smaller Docker image size, improved console output, documentation and more. Take a look at the list of releases to get the full list.
XWiki version 17.0.0 is out! This is the first release of the 17 series. This version brings an important technical update by using now Jakarta EE 9.1 that allows support of Tomcat 10+ and Jetty 12.
The LDAP Tool Box project released a new version of Self Service Password. This version comes with several fixes including permission in Docker container, localization of captcha messages and more.
CryptPad took the opportunity of the beginning of the year to share a status of the funding of the project. They look back on 2024 budget and how it was used and share their plan for 2025.
Version 3.7.2 of DeviceFarmer packaged some security fixes and brings support for arm64 for the Docker image.
PostgreSQL is the default database for Imixs-Office-Workflow but it is not the only one supported. If you need to run it with Microsoft SQL Server this blog post will come in handy.
Rocket.Chat version 7.3.0 as some usability improvements such as group members by role in the room members list and also some new monitoring information regarding voice calls with statistics.
In a blog post, BlueMind present one of their key feature: the capability to delegate your email management (and also agenda and tasks). This feature allows one of your colleague to send email on your behalf and that can be visible or not to your contact.
PrestaShop is an highly extensible solution: you can develop and add your own module to your PrestaShop server. But as any code your are facing the risk of bugs so it is important to properly test it. Take a look at the blog post that will explain you in details how to do so.
Version 2.20.2 of LemonLDAP::NG is here with two security fixes. Make sure to update!

Project of the month

Waarp (MRL: 8) is modernizing and unifying its ecosystem. With the first open source implementation of the PeSit protocol, it improves the reliability and security of file exchanges in banking environments. More.

Community News

Open Source by OW2 Webinar Series, Episode #4, March 6

During the next webinar on March 6, Simon Descarpentries will present Meta Presses, a project funded by NGI Search. Recent updates of the OW2 codebase and our next events will also be detailed. More.

OSPO Alliance

This 2024 retrOSPOctive proves that the OSPO Alliance was very active last year. Make the most of it!

AlpOSS, February 20, Echirolles (Grenoble, France)

AlpOSS 2025 is arriving very soon now. With 14 sponsors and an intensive program, we expect this 2nd edition to be great and a large success. Registration is still possible, request now your feee badge. More.

The Digital Actors Night, 13 May, French Riviera

Let's meet together with several OW2 members and local developers during the Digital Actors Night (Nuit des Acteurs du Numérique Azuréens) at Inria in Sophia-Antipolis on Tuesday 13 May. More.

OW2con'25, June 17-18, 2025, Paris

Less than three weeks left to submit a talk proposal at OW2con'25, do not wait more: read the cfp details and submit before the February 23 deadline. Want to support OW2con'25 ? Check out the Sponsorship Prospectus. More.

Feedback on recent events

FOSDEM, February 1-2, Brussels

In Brussels last week, the international community attended the Open Source Week and its flagship FOSDEM event. Among others, the EU Policy DevRoom brought useful content regarding upcoming regulation and the CRA. More.

Job Corner

We are glad to share with you several dozens of jobs offered by OW2 members at alter way, Belledonne Communications, BlueMind, CEA List, Engineering Group (jobs mostly located in Italy), INRIA, FactorFX, Linagora, OpenStudio, Orange, Prestashop, XWiki, and Worteks.

Special focus on this month's job offer:
Centreon is recruiting a Rust developer. More information.

In the OW2 Ecosystem

OW2 is Community Partner of Open Expo Europe 2025, taking place on May 8 in Madrid, with the main theme: «HUMAINS» – Humans Beyond AI. More.

OW2 does endorse the definition of open source artificial intelligence proposed by the Open Source Initiative. More.

A sovereign alternative to Office365, the secure French collaboration suite Hexagone was launched early January. It's involving OW2 members Belledonne Communications, Bluemind, and XWiki. More.

The Free Software Professionnal meeting "RPLL" organized every year in Lyon will take place on May 15. Conference in French.More.

Some interesting reading (in French) in the IT news recap proposed by eXo Platform: feedback from the CES, AI and OpenAI recent news, etc. More.

The first OSAwards by the European Open Source Academy were celebrated on January 30 during the OSS week in Brussels. More.

Attacks targeting open-source software and unpatched vulnerabilities remain a major concern, according to the Thales Cyber Trends 2025 report on software flaws and vulnerability exploitation. More.

In our Research and Funding Projects

Apply to the current open call by April 1st 2025 12:00 CET. Check out multiple services dedicated to beneficiary projects.

Three NGI Searchers presented their project outcomes recently. Learn more about Spare Cores, Open Food Facts, and OSE through this Stand-Up Meeting Video.

The beta-testing platform remains open to OW2 members, research projects and SMEs wishing to collect feedback for their latest beta release or use cases. More.

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