Track: When Open Source Fosters Open Innovation

On: Oct 31, 2014, from 09:00 to 12:20

Track leader(s): Manon Midy (Responsable marketing, Enalean)

Open Innovation disrupts the traditional conception of innovation by establishing the idea of a social innovation where the aim is no longer to create first but to have better designs and more inventions with the help of others.
Transposed to technologic industry, this brand new paradigm makes the explosive growth of open source software possible by being its economic support. Formerly limited to a handful of developers, Open Source is nowaday a wide ecosystem in which big Companies, SMEs, searchers and entrepreneurs work together to create a faster, stronger, safer and more collaborative innovation. While Open Source success stories are being revealed, in France and elsewhere, big players are adopting open, collective and collaborative innovation model. Moreover, the development of both vertical or horizontal partnerships helps create a virtuous collective dynamics for the profit of these common objectives, in the context of an ecosystem combining values from sharing & innovation. Through the testimonials of various stakeholders, the track "Innovation and Open Source" will provide an overview of these new synergies & collaborations made possible by the Open Source, either through alliances between startups, large accounts and research centers. Their experiences will convince everyone of the benefits gained from the Open Source model as a driver of technological innovation.

Talks

09:00 - Introduction of the track

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Laurent Charles (President, Enalean)

09:15 - Tuleap Agile planner for Eclipse: how Ericsson, Enalean and Obeo worked together to deliver the first Open Source agile tool into Eclipse

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Laurent Charles (President, Enalean) / Laurent Delaigue (Obeo)

To produce innovative applications, developers at Ericsson are using Tuleap, the first Open Source Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Ericsson's agile teams needed to access the Tuleap agile tools directly from within the Eclipse framework . To fulfill this needs, Ericsson collaborated with Enalean and Obeo.Now, thanks to the Tuleap Agile Planner for Eclipse ,developers have the ability to access Tuleap agile tools from their IDE, avoiding switching from tool to tool.

This project was born and raised by Ericsson foresight combined with Enalean's and Obeo's respective technical expertise. This talk shares how Enalean, Obeo and Ericsson collaborated, using agile principles, to build the first and unique Open Source agile solution into Eclipse.

09:30 - Bluemind experience

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Pierre Baudracco (CEO, Bluemind)

Retour d'expérience concrêt sur les avantages et les contraintes du choix de l'Open Source pour un éditeur innovant comme BlueMind dans la création d'un écosystème global au niveau : utilisateurs, media, communauté et partenaires professionnels. Framasoft en tant qu'utilisateur et membre important de la communauté viendra apporter son retour et sa perception des avantages au niveau de l'écosystème qui l'ont conduit à migrer de GMail vers BlueMind

09:45 - FORJ: how an internal need in HP became a larger open source project, with Enalean as the first external partner

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Olivier Jacques (HP) / Manuel Vacelet (Enalean)

You have an internal project which you consider releasing in Open Source. Why would you bother? Why investing time and money in an effort which is not your core business? We did it to take control back of our destiny and we want to share our experience.

In this talk, we will share our journey in releasing an internal project - Forj.io - in public Open Source. After a quick intro on what the project is about - powering application development teams with pre-integrated continuous integration and delivery environments from a catalog, we will share the criteria which we used to move forward with a public Open Source approach. We will share our recipes to attract contributors and be able to partner with other companies / big or small, on this very lightweight organization which is an Open Source project. We will share the benefits which we expected as well as unexpected benefits we have already seen. Finally, we'll share 5 practical advices if you want to release your own private project in public Open Source and collaborate with other companies on a project which was solely your own problem before.

10:00 - Sirius: the new Open Source way for systems design - The story of a successful collaboration between Obeo and Thales

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Stéphane Lacrampe (Co-founder, CEO, Obeo)

After more than 50 men-years of R&D, Obeo and Thales announced at the end of 2013 the Open Source release of the Sirius project in the Eclipse Foundation. This is about nothing less than one of the most important Open Source contributions from a French company in recent years.

Used by Thales to design and to master complex systems for its industrial customers, Sirius allows users to create a model and to represent information in a visual way.

We will review the beginnings of Sirius and how this project will represent a technological breakthrough in the area of complex architecture design (industrial systems, software developments or big companies management). Several case studies will be presented in various business domains (aeronautics, energy, information system, etc.). We will conclude with the strategy selected by Obeo and Thales to create a worldwide ecosystem based on this technology.

10:15 - Merethis : How Open Source can foster the collaboration with Big players

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Romain Le Merlus (Directeur Commercial, Merethis)

Merethis : How Open Source can foster the collaboration with Big players

11:00 - Open source telephony and business intelligence

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Laurent Damange (Associate Director, Avencall)

We know that phone systems meets call center needs offering services to power their business. Open source phone systems go further crossing phone statistics and business indicators ! This is only possible if the information system is open and you can access the source code. And it is even easier if the different providers of information system work together. Let us illustrate this with a successful collaboration between open source companies (Avencall and Altic) who deliver their common customer resources, tools and methods to collect, consolidate, model data to facilitate decision making.

11:15 - Collaboration to extend OpenStack: HP and Objectif Libre team up to improve OpenStack

Duration: 15 minutes

Speakers: Bruno Cornec (Linux Distinguished Technologist, HP) / Christophe Sauthier (CEO, Objectif Libre)

ObjectifLibre, an HP partner wanted to propose an entry level solution for RFQs using OpenStack and entry levelservers, storage and network equipment. However, HP didn't had support for Cinder for this entry level storage system.

But this is OPen Source, isn't it ? So ObjectifLibre decided to contribute to OpenStack by bringing that support based on what was available for high-end 3PAR storage systems.

This presentation will explain that collaboration between a french SME and the largest IT corporation, how OWF was key in the first meeting between partners, what setup was put in place to solve the issue encountered, the results obtained and the future steps that are now considered.