Leveraging the European Open Source Ecosystem
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Project of the month: DocDokuPLM

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DocDokuPLM is a robust state-of-the-art open source PLM (Product LifeCycle Management) solution. DocDokuPLM won the 2015 OW2 Best Project Community Award.

News and Events

  

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We are happy to announce the opening of the Call for Presentations for OW2con'21 (deadline March 15). Please visit the conference website and check out the sponsorship prospectus.

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The OW2 election of the Board of Directors process for the year 2021 has started. As an open community, OW2 is driven by its members and your opinion matters. The deadline for Individual and Corporate members application is February 16.

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We are happy to launch in cooperation with the Eclipse Foundation this new webinar series, introducing european software research projects that help shape the future of open source software and the IT industry. The next webinar takes place on March 4th at 4:00pm. Register now! 

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The OW2 community supports the recommendation of the French Parliamentary mission to set up a central open source competency center and offers to help by sharing its expertise.

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OW2 CEO Cedric Thomas co-signs op-ed in Le Monde with Stefane Fermigier and Prof. Roberto Di Cosmo in support of MP Eric Bothorel's recommendation to set up a specialized open source bureau for the French administration. 

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We are happy to coordinate this year again the Dependency Management Devroom at FOSDEM, in collaboration with FASTEN project. The CFP is closed now, check out the final Devroom program! 

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How can you take part in the Community?



What is OW2

OW2 is an independent, non-profit community organisation dedicated to promoting industry-grade open source software for corporate information systems and to fostering their business ecosystems.

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 Adoption

Facilitate the market adoption of your project with our suite of freely accessible quality tools and with OW2's unique Market Readiness Levels project assessment program.

Open Source Good Governance

The Good Governance initiative develops a blueprint to help implement corporate-wide open source policies and improve the competitiveness and sustainability of the European open source ecosystem.



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Infrastructure Software, Application Platform, Middleware, Tools

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Ten years, dozens of memories and hundreds of fellows
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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.

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