The OSPO Alliance launched by OW2, Eclipse Foundation, Foundation for Public Code and OpenForum Europe will promote the OSPO methodology developed by the OW2 Good Governance initiative.
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Project of the month: ProActive
ProActive Workflows & Scheduling is an open source middleware featuring Programming, Scheduling and Resourcing tools for parallel, distributed and multi-core computing. ProActive won the 2017 OW2 Best Project Innovation Award and reaches today an MRL score of 8.
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The OW2con'22 Best Project Awards are launched! This contest reward "best of breed" projects and successful implementations of OW2 technologies in three categories are opened: Technology - Community - Market.
The OW2 election process for the year 2022 has started. Check out the Individual and Corporate members election rules and agenda. Do not hesitate to apply and get involved!
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It was a great experience to welcome more than 100 participants at our Devroom Software Composition and Dependency Management welcoming more than 100 participants. Videos are available now.
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The Open Source Good Governance Handbook collaboratively developed in the framework of the OW2 Open Source Good Governance initiative was announced at the Paris Open Source Experience 2021 by the OSPO Alliance. Discover the handbook online or download it.
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Next instalment of the webinar series we launched in cooperation with the Eclipse Foundation to introduce european software research projects that help shape the future of open source software and the IT industry. Discover MORPHEMIC and Eclipse POOLS projects.
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