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

Dear OW2 Members, dear All,

Should all editorials start with good news? A new member joins OW2: UGA (Université Grenoble Alpes), a French academic we have long term friendly relationships with - and this confirms and reinforces our commitment in open science and knowledge. OW2 and UGA team together in an open education French project focused on cloud skills, we are the voice of open source there!

Also, while talking about open models at large, do not forget the ongoing NGI0 Commons Fund open call: go and apply, to fuel reusable open source bricks, or even full-scale digital commons based on public goods. NGI has an unprecedented track record, and we are happy to announce we just started funding Mastodon to extend Fediverse discovery capabilities, plus a very useful data visualization framework called Datami. So maybe you are just a form away from getting funded?

And among our ongoing efforts for FOSS at large, the OSPO Alliance we co-founded with Eclipse and OFE welcomes a new chairman: Frédéric Aatz, a long term supporter of open source governance and OSPOs.

Now, if you need more information about NGI, OW2, OSPOs, or just want to chat with us and the community, some occasions to meet soon at events: OSXP - Open Source Experience in Paris (Dec. 4/5), on our village booth. OW2 also has a stand at SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy (Nov. 8/9), represented by our associate organization RIOS, with NGI funded projects testimonials (and success stories): SpareCores, an impressive cloud statistics and benchmarking tool, and OnMyDisk, a distributed file sharing and search technology.

Last but not least, the French regional "AlpOSS" event we organize along with Linphone and the city of Echirolles comes back in 2025 (Feb. 20) after its successful onset last year: the CfP opens soon, stay tuned!

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 16.8.0 allows you to insert links using WYSIWYG editor that comply with name strategy, a lot of UI improvements (icon picker selection, better button contrast, updated icons, etc.). This release also introduces the concept of "supporters" and "support plans" for extensions that would ease your decision when installing an extension.
Rocket.Chat version 6.12.0 includes new features for the admin such as a listing of "deactivated" users, audit endpoint for room members and configuration of file encryption for end-to-end encryption room. This version also includes Matrix Federation validation and several bug fixes (see the release notes for a full description).
PrestaShop project as a lot going on: a rebranding of the back office for PrestaShop 9, presentation at OW2 Webinar (see the replay), PrestaShop 8.2 is available and finally registration for the PrestaShop Developer Conference is opened.
Jeka is making progress toward 0.11.0 release with the publication of two new beta versions in September.
DeviceFarmer STF 3.7.1 is out including improvements and bug fixes. An option is now available for cleaning the tmp folder during the cleanup phase, STFService installation with SDK version prior to 34 is now fixed and some deprecation warning as been addressed.
BlueMind explains in a recent blog post their versioning and release strategy. If you want to get a clear view on which BlueMind version is actively supported this is a must read.
LDAP Tool Box Self Service Password is an end user web application that let them managed (change or reset) their password if they lost it. Version 1.7 was published recently bringing a new captcha system allowing to choose your provider, configuration of LDAP scope, usage of Symfony caching feature (for better performance), option to configure the LDAP page size and an improved Docker image. Of course, by upgrading you will also benefit from a lot of bug fixes and translation updates.
OCS Inventory Server released a new version (2.12.3) that includes several security fixes and a fix for an error on logout among others. Upgrade is highly recommended.
CryptPad published version 2024.9.0 that focus on server performance. Also CryptPad welcome Andrea to the team: she is joining CryptPad after a successful internship. Also, a lot was going on during the XWiki seminar hackathon, checkout the blog post to get the details.

Project of the month

Deming is October 2024 OW2 Project of the month. This open source software contributes to managing, planning, monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of security measures. Organisations can ensure appropriate and proportionate security, in compliance with the most demanding standards. More.

Community News

Open Source by OW2 Webinar Series, Second Episode

The second episode did showcase Prestashop eCommerce software platform and the ALLMA project integrating a selection of LLMs to /e/OS, the privacy-by-design fork of Android. The replay is online now: Let's go for it.

SFScon, November 8-9, Bolzano

OW2 is Partner of SFSCON 2024. OnMyDisk and SpareCores, both NGI Search founded projects will be showcased with talks from project leaders in the OW2 track starting at 17:00 on Friday 8. Also RIOS will represent OW2 and the OSPO Alliance during both days. More.

Open Source Experience, December 4-5, Paris

Book the latest available pod on the OW2 Community booth with a discount price for a member or partner. Also, NGI beneficiary project Datafari will join the NGI Pod, and the e Foundation will showcase Murena while the City of Paris will highlight Lutece. More.

FOSDEM, February 1-2, Brussels

FOSDEM'25 coincides with the 25th anniversary of the OSS conference in Brussels. Several OW2 members and MO team members will join the NLNet booth to represent NGI funding projects. More about FOSDEM. While in Brussels Jan. 31, you may want to attend the 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

AlpOSS is planned for February 20, 2025 in Echirolles. The CfP is about to open. You can count on a strong presence from the open source ecosystem and the OW2 community. More.

Feedback on past OSPO OnRamp webinars

If you want to learn more about the OW2 MRL (Market Readiness Levels) methodology, watch out the replay of April 2024 webinar: How to select the right open source solution? Get inspired by OW2 MRL! More.

Great OSPO experience testimony from the Italian Public Sector with PagoPA e-Gov platform: watch the replay of the June 2024 OSPO OnRamp webinar by Leonardo Favario, Head of Open Source Program Office at PagoPA. 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

The Mindtrek conference supported by OW2 Associate Organization COSS will take place in Finland on October 8 with a track on the future of open source business. More.

Several OW2 members will talk during the Forum Cloud + Security, October 9-10 in Paris, including Clément Oudot, Worteks/LemonLDAP::NG, and Michel-Marie Maudet, Linagora/OpenLLM. More.

XWiki celebrated its 20th anniversary in Paris on September 19, on a barge on the banks of the Seine river. Find out more about the programme for the conference entitled 'Celebrating the past, building the future’.

In our Research and Funding Projects

Fuel your open source software project thanks to the new NGI Zero Commons Fund. Apply to the current open call, by October 1st. See the French video. More.

The 5th Open Call ended last July. Beneficiary innovations will be revealed soon. 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

We are happy to announce that OW2con'25 will take place in June 17-18 in Paris-Châtillon. The CfP will open in November. More details will come soon, stay tuned!

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