Open Source Community for Infrastructure Software
Project of the month: LUTECE
Lutece is a free and powerful Java based Content Management Framework developed by City of Paris. This software is an opportunity for other cities or associations to freely reuse, contribute and provide on shelf services to their citizens. Lutece received an award for the “Best Open Source Strategy” at the "Champion of Free Software" contest organized at Paris Open Source Summit 2018. .
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On September 5, we encourage all members and contributors to tell their policy makers how Article 13 will affect the preservation, sharing and improving of code. Follow easy instructions here or go directly to the #SaveYourInternet #DeleteArt13 website.
MoreOW2con'19 Call For Presentation is open! Please check out the details of this year's main theme and topics and submit now!. (Deadline: March 17).
MoreWhy is tax-funded software not published as Free Software? OW2 supports the Public Money? Public Code! campaign steered by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Sign the Open Letter!
MoreGreat result for OW2 projects and members at the "Champion of Free Software" contest organized in the framework of Paris Open Source Summit.
MoreOW2 will participate in the Paris Open Source Summit this year again on December 5-6, with a large community booth and a significant contribution to the conference program. Contact us to know more.
MoreWhat is OW2
OW2 is an independent community dedicated to open source industry-grade enterprise computing infrastructure software, including middleware, application platforms and cloud computing technologies.
Why Join OW2
Make a stand, focus your open source efforts, help steer the community, increase your open source visibility, promote your projects, and join renowned industry leaders, SMEs, academics and individuals.
Free Infrastructure Software
OW2 hosts some one hundred open source projects spanning application platforms, components, middleware, cloudware and tools for the development, deployment and management of distributed and cloud applications.
Submit a Project
At OW2 it usually starts with an open source project. We provide resources, governance and help build awareness for your project. Checkout the project life cycle and fill in the submission form. Join the code base.
Quality and Trustworthiness
Enhance the quality and facilitate the market adoption of your project with the unique suite of tools freely accessible with Open-source Software Capability Assessment Radar (OSCAR) the OW2 quality program.
Marketplace
Check out the beta version of OW2 marketplace at EU-funded project AppHub. Stay tuned for future development and full opening of the marketplace to OW2 projects in 2017.
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Collaborative Projects
Leveraging open source to foster collaborative innovation is a powerful strategy. OW2 is an experienced Open Source Software community for collaborative R&D projects. We provides community support and dissemination services and community building services to multinational open source collaborative projects and large collaborative R&D projects. In particular, OW2 has established itself as the reference dissemination and community platform for complex government-supported, open source-oriented projects.