fOSSa 2010 Free Open Source Software Academia Conference Grenoble France.

• Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open sourcesoftware projects for well over 15 years.
• He acted as the leader of the Debian project for two years and currently serves on the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
• Martin works for HP as an Open Source Community Expert and acts as the community manager of FOSSBazaar.
• Martin holds Master degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and Software Engineering, and earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
• Homepage: http://www.cyrius.com/

Project Management in Free Software Projects

Some researchers argue that free and open source software (FOSS)

development relies on self-coordination of individuals with little

central management.  While self-coordination is an important aspect of

FOSS projects, the importance of project management should not be

neglected.  This talk gives a practical overview of project management

in FOSS projects based on insights from acting as the leader of the

Debian projects for two years.

• Hi, my name is Chris Aniszczyk. My passions in life are modularity, software advocacy and fitness.
• I currently work for a company called Red Hat
• My goal is to make Eclipse and the open source way successful. I have the honor to sit on the Eclipse Architecture Council and Eclipse Board of Directors.
• In the end, I love what I do… I meet great people and it takes me to interesting places.
• Homepage http://aniszczyk.org

Evolution of Version Control in Open Source

Some Over the past few years, many open source projects have left the

shackles of traditional centralized version control systems like SVN

and adopted distributed version control systems (DVCS) like Git. This

talk will give an introduction to DVCS, discuss the reasons for this

distributed evolution and offer some practical advice on moving to a

DVCS using the presenter’s personal experience within the Eclipse.org

open source community.

• Vincent Quint was the W3C Document Formats Domain  Leader and served as chair of the W3C Hypertext Coordination Group.
• Prior to joining the W3C team in February 1996, he was leading project Opera at INRIA, which is interested in various aspects of electronic documents, such as document models and structures, structured editors, hypertext, and digital typography.
• During the last ten years, he has been deeply involved in the design and development of various document processing systems, including Amaya.
• His research interests include document models, document production systems, document engineering, hypertext and multimedia.

• He is a Research Director at INRIA in Grenoble, France.
• Homepage http://wam.inrialpes.fr

Web Standards in FLOSS development

Open source plays a key role in the development of standards for the web. With open source, new technologies, or extensions to existing technologies, may be experimented and demonstrated during the early stages of standard development. This provides feedback to standard bodies during the design phase, making stadards more robust. This also makes sure that implementations are available as soon as the standard is finished, thus facilitating early adoption of new standards. We analyze in this talk the benefits that open source brings to open standards and conversely, based on the experience gained with the Amaya project that is conducted jointly by W3C and INRIA.

- Technical Community Manager

- Director of Committer Community

• Wayne works for the Eclipse Foundation where he fills the dual roles of Director of Committer Community and Evangelist.
• He spends his days working with the many Eclipse projects, learning about Eclipse technology, and making sure that everybody knows just how cool it all really is.
• Wayne is also the editor-in-chief of Eclipse Corner, PMC Lead for the Technology Project, and Project Lead for the Eclipse Examples and Woolsey Projects.
• In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay.
• In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader.

Responsible of the development, research & innovation theme

Open source development occurs in many forms: Some more structured than others. For the developer there are many issues to consider: development process, contribution management, issue tracking, license selection, release schedule, and more. In this track, we present sessions that discuss many broad aspects of open source development!

• Pierre Gaufillet is a Software Engineering Specialist at Airbus in Toulouse since 2001, where he defines development methods and supports software engineers working on avionic applications and flight simulators.
• Advocating open source strategy and model driven engineering for years, he is also involved in TOPCASED and OPEES initiatives – aiming to provide and maintain a complete CASE (Computer Aided System Engineering) in open source.
• When Pierre is not talking about computer sciences, you may find him trekking or climbing in unlikely places.

OPEES – Open Platform for the Engineering of Embedded Systems

The ITEA2 project OPEES – standing for Open Platform for the Engineering of Embedded Systems – aims to build a community able to ensure long-term availability of innovative engineering technologies in the domain of dependable / critical software-intensive embedded systems, like TOPCASED tools.

This challenge can be achieved if it succeeds in building an ecosystem in the open source frame, with the relevant business models. The viability of such an ecosystem requires several elements that OPEES aims at providing: well defined business models, an open organization, a good R&D coordination, a collaborative environment – like a forge – and a set of processes and guidelines.

To avoid redundancies and wastes, OPEES will favour connection to other open source foundations like the Eclipse Foundation, relying on their resources or sharing them.