GeoBI initiative is a joint effort of companies, organizations, projects’ communities and individuals set up to:
• Improve the coordination work in the Location Intelligence area disseminate BI knowledge in the GIS world and vice-versa
• Promote the integration between BI and Geographical Systems
• Strengthen connections among members and support new business opportunities
• Create a research network focused on Location Intelligence
• Turn research results into innovative enterprise-level applications.

Right now the Initiative have the following members:

• Engineering (founding member)
• Inova (founding member)
• Camptocamp
• Spatialytics
• University of Milan
• Altic

All sharing the same principles:

value proposition: we want to create new value through GIS and BI integration
separation of concerns: we focus on the integration of GIS and BI software stacks, keeping them as decoupled as possible; reinventing GIS functionalities into existing BI suites or vice-versa is no-sense
constant growth: we believe that LI solutions must be able to scale up functionalities and costs incrementally, focusing on the answer to real users’ requirements, avoiding the all-or-nothing option
low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership): we believe that only by reducing the TCO, the Location Intelligence can become pervasive.

Resources:

1. website
2. twitter
3. linkedin
4. blogs
5. wiki

• Located at the heart of Grenoble in the Rhone Alpes region, La Casemate is the first science centre created in France in 1979.
• Focused on contemporary sciences and techniques, prospective, our ambition is to promote knowledge sharing and the debate of knowledge appropriation involving all stakeholders: schools, universities, research laboratories, companies, associations, NGOs, public bodies, Medias, artists, politicians, trade unions.
• Excluding no artistic and scientific disciplines, La Casemate offers each day exhibitions, creative or participative workshops, public debates, artistic and cultural events, social networks, resource centre.
• Moreover, La Casemate is an active member of several networks at the regional (CCSTI’s network), national (AMCSTI) and European level (ECSITE).

Implantée au cœur de l’agglomération grenobloise, La Casemate est le premier Centre de Culture Scientifique, Technique et Industrielle (CCSTI) créé en France, en 1979. Focalisée sur l’actualité et la prospective, notre ambition est de créer les conditions du partage des savoirs, de leur appropriation et du débat sur leurs enjeux, avec l’ensemble des parties prenantes : écoles, universités, laboratoires de recherche, entreprises, associations, ONG, syndicats, collectivités locales, médias, élus, artistes.

Ouverte à toutes les disciplines scientifiques et artistiques, La Casemate propose tout au long de l’année des expositions itinérantes, des ateliers de pratique et/ou de création, des débats publics, des événements artistiques et culturels, l’animation de réseaux sociaux et un centre de ressources. La Casemate est aussi membre actif de différents réseaux à l’échelle régionale (Réseau Rhône-Alpes des CCSTI), nationale (AMCSTI) et européenne (ECSITE).

• Combodo, the software company developing “iTop” presents an opensource alternative to manage your IT.
• Discover how you can improve quality of your IT services and productivity of your IT teams.
• During 3 days at the Fossa community village, the Combodo team will organize live demonstrations of iTop.
• It is a great opportunity to exchange ideas about IT management and how OpenSource software can contribute to improve it.
• Come and vist us on the village!

• QualiPSo project invites you to come fOSSa conference the 8-10 Nov 2010 in Grenoble.
• Join us at this event to exchange our ideas, projects and future of Open Source domain.
• We wait for you in our stand for presenting you our project and promising results! You will find there material that explain what we have achieved and you will be able to talk directly with our team.
• Your opinion is very valuable for us, so your feedback and comments are welcomed.
• Come and vist us on the village!

Do not lose this opportunity to know what QualiPSo may offer you in open source software domain:

• a next generation forge (QualiPSo Factory),
• a network of Competence Centers for helping in Open Source deployment,
• map of legal issues,
• tools for evaluating the quality of Open Source products,
• a light development process methodology (OMM),
• guidelines for solving interoperability issues in Open Source,
• intelligent management of information in Open Source communities,
• etc.

Resources:

1. website
2. twitter
3. linkedin

• Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing.
• Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
• Haiku is mostly developed by spare-time contributors, but it is also used in research field at some universities, and participated in the Google Summer of Code several times, FOSDEM, RMLL, etc.
• Come and vist us on the village! You will be able to INSTALL Haiku on your PC!!
  

Resources:

http://www.haiku-os.org

irc://irc.freenode.org/haiku

• The AspireRFID project aims at developing and promoting an open-source, lightweight, standards-compliant, scalable, privacy-friendly, and integrated middleware along with several tools to ease the development, the deployment and the management of RFID-based applications and sensor-based applications.
• It implements several specifications from consortiums such as EPC Global, NFC Forum, JCP and OSGi Alliance.
• AspireRFID provides also a set of tools enabling RFID consultants to deploy RFID solutions without a need for tedious low-level programming.

• Come and vist us on the village! RFID demonstrations!!
  

Resources:

1. website

• 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.