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[Sidonie Christophe]

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Objet : [bulle-i3] fOSSa Conference where Open Source meets Academia,      17th & 18th November, Grenoble

17th & 18th November - fOSSa Conference where Open Source meets Academia
This conference aims at:

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      fostering anyone who would like to create, sustain and transfer an
OSS project from his laboratory to the industrial world in a more
productive manner;
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      helping start-ups and companies to find answers to overcome Open
Source “constraints” within their environment and better understand
the OSS culture;
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      enabling academia and industrials to meet, talk together and find
synergies between research projects and industrial needs;
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      providing a free expression room where OSS Academic, Research and
OSS Start-up's team can present their projects;
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      showing the benefits of the participation in a collaborative
network, with the purpose of increasing the value of academic
results, gathering them in a common environment and releasing them
in Open Source.


fOSSa conference is co-organised by INRIA (Technological Development
Department) and OW2 Europe Local Chapter

fOSSa Philosophy

Open source can be seen as a development, collaboration, distribution,
marketing and disruptive innovation model that has gradually fostered the
building up of a new collaborative way of working in the R&D domain often
evolving towards the creation of an organised community. Furthermore, the
increasing connections at the international level raise a need for remote
collaboration around the world that emphasises the need to organise the
creation, promotion and sustainability of such projects.
Open Source model has proved its efficiency in addressing this new way of
working. Nevertheless, launching an Open Source project, developing it and
maintaining it successfully is not always a spontaneous action, since it
relies on a structured approach and requires good knowledge and practice
of the Open Source culture.

The history of F/OSS can be traced back to academic origins: distributing
source code under a permissive license was the de facto rule in academia
in the 70's. Since then, F/OSS became a wide spread paradigm throughout
the software industry, and its alignment with academic goals tended to be
forgotten. According to fOSSa steering committee members, software
innovation is a value creation process that needs a new joint
collaboration of industries, academia and F/OSS experts.

By organising such conference, we hope to clarify the Open Source model
and culture.
fOSSa audience

The fOSSa audience mainly focuses on academia and research centres but it
does not close the door to industrials, since in many cases academia needs
industrials and vice versa: we believe that Open Source model can improve
this kind of collaboration in a much more natural way.
fOSSa first event

The fOSSa conference 2009 is our first conference organisation. There are
missing topics like OSS and Development... We tried to do our best (in a
very short time frame) to propose an interesting and consistent program
for Acamedia and Industrials around our passion: the Open Source Software
Model. We promise to improve the overall conference for the next occurance
:-)
fOSSa thankful words

The fOSSa conference proposes real valuable presentations around Open
Source. We are proud that Jean Luc Archimbault (CNRS), Roberto Di Cosmo
(University Paris VII), Clément Escoffier (Apache & Google Android), Luc
Grateau (INRIA), Bob Gobeille & Bruno Cornec (HP Fossology), Arnaud
Laprévote (Mandriva), Ralph Mueller (Eclipse), Pascal Prevost & Alban
Richard (Sun Microsystems), Jean Bernard Stefani (INRIA) and many others,
participate in the fOSSa conference adventure. They accepted on a very
short abstract! We thank them for trusting us.

Finally, we have located this conference in Grenoble as we believe in
decentralised conference location, giving the chance to come to this event
even to those people who can't travel to Paris. In the OSS domain,
Rhones-Alpes region is full of resources!


Finally, we would like to thank the INRIA (D2T) and OW2 ELC team for
organizing such a nice event and for supporting us!


Conference where Open Source meets Academia

fOSSa Conference ... where Open Source meets Academia - 17th & 18th
November 2009, Grenoble, France.


      
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