November 2024 Newsletter

October 2024 Newsletter

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[OW2 Newsletter - November 2024 - From the OW2 Management Office]

Dear OW2 Members, dear All,

This month, I will be brief: our main focus is incoming events.

First, OW2 is represented at SFSCon (Bolzano, Italy, Nov. 8/9), with a booth held by NGI Search beneficiaries we have been mentoring during the programme: SpareCores - giving a talk about Cloud compute resources optimization, and On My Disk - talking about decentralized search on a self-hosted cloud.

Then comes Open Source Experience (OSXP) - Paris, Dec. 4/5, a milestone in OW2's roadmap: as every year, we are happy to welcome the community on our village booth #C20, shared with the City of Paris (their Lutece/CiteLibre project, but also their commitment in OSPOs and governance), Murena pro-privacy /E/OS smartphones, and NGI projects - including success stories from NGI Search (Datafari and SpareCores), plus the ongoing NGI0 Commons Fund that can help you fuel your FOSS projects.

OW2 also participates in two talks there: one is a round table we animate (Dec. 4 / 12:20 PM), shared with Mastodon, Open Food Facts, the e.Foundation (home of /E/OS) and XWiki/CryptPad, about how the EC backs digital commons with public funding to pave a European alternate way to GAFAMs. The other (Dec. 5 / 11:30 AM) is about FOSS funding schemes, in cooperation with Datami / Multi.coop.

Later on, our next event is a local one in south-east France (Echirolles, near Grenoble, in the Alps): 2nd edition of AlpOSS, February 20, 2025, co-organized with the City of Echirolles - hosting AlpOSS at the City Hall - and our member Linphone. The CfP is open until Nov. 17, and it is still possible to support us as a sponsor!

And, last but not least, OW2Con'25 takes place in June 25 (17/18): and the CfP opens right now, you can start submitting your proposals in English!

So, as you understood, our main message is "come and meet us" - at free events, so anyone can join, not just the usual suspects :)

Looking forward to meeting you soon,

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

XWiki 16.9.0 is out and now enable realtime WYSIWYG editing by default. If you didn't try yet this feature, now is a good time!
CryptPad in its monthly blog post celebrate its 10-years anniversary 🎂! CryptPad.fr server was also migrated to provide better performance and improve reliability.
Waarp transfer published version 0.4.0 with embedded SNMP server allowing supervision, for example using Centreon. This version also brings the support of S3 Storage, basic IP address filtering and much more.
ASM latest release brings the support of Java 24 as well as several bug fixes.
LemonLDAP::NG released version 2.20. With this version you can now use WebAuthn as first authentication factor. This feature is called Passkey or Passwordless and work with FIDO2 devices that can store credentials. This version also brings several other new features and some security fixes.
Jeka is making progress toward 0.11.0 release with the publication of no less than ten new beta versions in October.
Imixs AI framework is now available in version 1.1.0. This version allows to connect your business workflow to any language server supporting the Open-AI API specification. Also Imixs 6.1.0 has been published with major new features such as a lightweight workflow engine, Imixs-Micro, that can be run on devices such as Raspberry PI.
Rocket.Chat version 6.13.0 brings several useful features to improve collaboration and admin control. It also includes the usual bug fixes.
PrestaShop October live update covers PrestaShop 8.2 release, PretaShop 9 development, the launch of the project newsletter, the 2024 developer conference and more!
BlueMind explains what NIS directive is about in its latest blog post and how BlueMind Digital Crisis can help you comply.
LDAP Tool Box Self Service Password has a new version that fix an issue in REST services.

Project of the month

XWiki is November 2024 OW2 Project of the month. Recent XWiki news include openDesk, XWiki new release 16.9.0, Cryptpad 10th anniversary, and the participation at Open Source Experience. More.

Community News

SFScon, November 8-9, Bolzano

During SFSCON, two NGI Search founded projects, On My Disk and Spare Cores will be visible on the OW2 booth, and introduced in the OW2 conference track along with an update from the OSPO Alliance. More.

Open Source Experience, December 4-5, Paris

The OW2 Community village is now ready. We look forward to welcome on it: City of Paris with Cite Libre, Datafari and Spare Cores from NGI Search, Murena, and the NGI Zero Commons Fund. See you there! More.

Open Source by OW2 Webinar Series, Episode #3, December 12

Join us on December 12 and discover Spare Cores, an NGI-funded project for cloud compute resources optimization. We still have one slot available, OW2 project leaders contact us quickly if you are interested. More.

OSPO OnRamp webinar, December 20

The next OSPO OnRamp webinar will showcase the City of Echirolles (France). Nicolas Vivant, Director of Digital Strategy, will talk about his experience of setting up an open source strategy at the city level. More.

FOSDEM, February 1-2, Brussels

We will be at Fosdem, hopefully on a booth if our application is accepted. Among the colocated events, you may be interested in the Jan. 31 EU Open Source Policy Summit organized by OpenForum Europe or the Workshop on Open Source key areas for Digital Autonomy on Febr. 1.

AlpOSS, February 20, Echirolles

The Call for Presentation is now open. Do not wait to send your proposals, the deadline is November 17! You can count on a strong presence from the open source ecosystem and the OW2 community. More.

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

We are thrilled to announce the dates of OW2con'25: June 17-18. Mark it on your agendas ! and do not wait to think about submitting a presentation proposal, the cfp is open. More.

Job Corner

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

In the OW2 Ecosystem

PrestaShop Developer Conference, November 6, Paris. Let's talk Code, Commerce and Open Source. Meet the European tech community, discuss around APIs, CI-CD, security, etc. More.

Huawei Connect Paris, November 14-15, Paris. More

The Centreon Summit will take place in Paris and also online, 14 November starting at 14:00 CET. More

Congratulations to Frédéric Aatz, now Chair of the OSPO Alliance, and to both Vice-Chairs Nicolas Toussaint and Florent Zara. More

We are proud to be part of the jury for the "Territoire Numérique Libre", a label proposed by OW2 Associate Organization "Adullact", encouraging the use of open source in French local authorities. More

In our Research and Funding Projects

Fuel your open source software project thanks to the NGI Zero Commons Fund. Apply to the current open call by December 1st. Discover the first batch of 32 beneficiary projects.

The 5th Open Call ended last July. Seven beneficiary innovations are now revealed through seven podcasts with the project team members. 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.

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