January 2025 Newsletter

Season's Greetings 2023

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

Dear OW2 Members, dear All,

All the team at OW2 wish you and your families a happy, successful and healthy new year!
With a warm welcome to our new member, eXo Platform.

Now let me start with the hottest news: OW2Con'25 takes place on June 17/18 (in Paris - Châtillon Orange Gardens), the CfP is open until Feb.23. We are expecting promising keynotes - the 1st one confirmed by Yann Lechelle (CEO at :Probabl).
It is also possible to sponsor OW2Con, and quite cheap compared to similar events: packages start from 1 kEUR, up to 8 for Platinum. Pick the one that best fits your communication needs, it is for a good cause - making OW2Con free for all visitors!

This year, more than ever, OW2 focuses on events to disseminate open source, and the value we can bring - particularly across the NGI0 Commons European funding programme: the 2nd batch of 50 beneficiaries is now public, and there will be rolling open calls all over 2025, so do not hesitate to apply and fuel your open source project or digital common!

The closest opportunity to meet us (at least for French people) is AlpOSS, on Feb.20, co-organized by OW2, the City of Echirolles - who hosts the event at the City Hall - and our member Linphone. We will also join the Brussels open source week, including FOSDEM, OFE's EU Open Source Policy Summit, and the new European Open Source Awards Ceremony.

Last but not least, OW2 will shortly unveil a new local event in Sophia Antipolis (Nice, southern France), in partnership with Telecom Valley and our member Huawei. We expect it mid-May 25, stay tuned!

Wishing you again a happy New Year,

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

The LDAP Tool Box project released two new versions (2.5.19 and 2.6.9) of OpenLDAP packages for RHEL and derivatives (CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, etc.) and Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, etc.). The project also published a version 0.6 of Service Desk with new features such as Active Directory compatibility, support for comments and much more.
If you haven't yet watched the PrestaShop last Live Update video maybe now is a good time to catch up. This session includes latest news about the on going project activity including the autoupgrade module, version 9 and the newsletter. Also worth reading is a blog post that gave you an in depth look at the PrestaShop new UI kit.
XWiki version 16.0.2 is not just a patch release with a set of bug fixes (including security) but it is also the beginning of 16.10.x as the LTS branch. So if you want to benefit from the latest features of XWiki and get a stable release this version is a good candidate for an upgrade!
In December Lutece publish the version 7.1.0. This version comes with a security header management admin feature but also a long list of improvements and bug fixes.
Jeka 0.11 continue its active development with several releases that include some improvements, reworks and a lot of polishing including documentation improvements. Take a look at the list of releases to get the full list of new features.
Rocket.Chat 7.2 allows to export end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) conversations directly from the encrypted rooms, improved VoIP calling experience and much more.
In a blog post Imixs-Workflow take a look at Event-Driven Business Architecture identifying its impacts on architecture and illustrate it with real-world applications.
In its latest release Sympa brings a long list of various enhancements including fixes and improvements on ARC seal and DKIM signature. This release also fixes a long list of issues including ones related to accessibility.
BlueMind gives you a nice heads-up about the end of Exchange 2016 and 2019 technical support. This might be a very good opportunity to look at an open source alternative such as BlueMind that is natively compatible with Outlook.

Community News

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

Check out the replay of the Webinar #3 with Bluemind and Spare Cores. Save the date for the next webinar on March 6 with open source projects from the OW2 community and from the European NGI initiative. More.

OSPO OnRamp webinar

The last OSPO OnRamp webinar showcased a great OSPO success story from the City of Echirolles (France). The replay is now available. More.

FOSDEM, February 1-2, Brussels

We will be at Fosdem, between various conferences and the nlnet booth representing NGI projects. For an overview of all colocated events, you may visit the Open Source Week website.

AlpOSS, February 20, Echirolles

The final programme is now online and registrations are open. Ask for your free pass now! We look forward to a great second edition of this local event. More.

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

The OW2con'25 cfp is open : read the details and do not forget to send your proposal before the February 23 deadline. Sponsor opportunities are available now, check the Sponsorship Prospectus. More.

Feedback on recent events

Open Source Experience, December 4-5, Paris

This year's village was great and busy. A big thank again to Cite Libre (City of Paris), Datafari, Spare Cores, Murena, and NGI Zero Commons Fund for sharing the booth. Photos are available. 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.

In the OW2 Ecosystem

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.

OW2 member XWiki will be showcased at Univention Summit in Bremen (Germany), next January 23-24. More.

Open Source for Responsible and Trustworthy AI. Join this EOSA Webinar on January 15, 2025 at 14:00 CET. Registration.

Discover the OpenStudio monthly Press Review with two articles on open source. More.

Linagora is launching the Paris OpenSource AI Summit on January 22. Explore the agenda online. More.

In our Research and Funding Projects

Apply to the current open call by February 1st 2025 12:00 CET. Discover the newly announced 50 beneficiary projects. Let's meet at the FOSDEM booth.

The NGI Searchers booklet has been updated with new innovations. Check out dozens of new open source software that might help you. More.

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.

Outlook

Join us May 13, 2025 during "La Nuit des Acteurs du Numérique Azuréens" to discuss the role of open source software in today's digital transformations. Save the date, more details will come soon.

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