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Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
4 years connecting research and Free Software
Roberto Di Cosmo
October 30th 2014
With the support of
Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
Free/Open Source Software is everywhere
● Apache+nginx server market share
~61 % (Netcraft)● Firefox+Chrome+Android browser market share
~58 % (Statcounter)● Android smartphone market share
~ 85 % in Q2 (Strategy Analytics)
And that's just the tip of the iceberg !And that's just the tip of the iceberg !
3Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
Accompanying FOSS growthWe face new challenges• scientifc,
– an unprecedented change of scale in software artifact size and speed of evolution, unveils new scientific and technological problems
• educational,– Teach tomorrow's engineers how to develop software in the FOSS
environment, and help them stay up to date,– Educate technical and non technical newcomers to FOSS values
and principles, and include them in the community
• economic,– Renew transfer from academia to industry, and ease bottom-up
innovation– Understand and promote business models that foster an open
ecosystem approach to information technologies
4Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
Irill : a place to bind them all
Developer Communities
Industries
Research and Education
5Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
Irill, 4 years setting up a virtuous circle
Research
Prototype
FOSSProject
4 years, 4 cycles
6Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
Coccinelle : killing bugs in the Linux kernel
SemanticPatches
Prototype
7Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
Mancoosi : improving quality of distributions
Coinst upgrades comigrateDose distcheck buildcheck
8Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
DebSources : all the source code at your fingertips
Mining SoftwareRepositories
DebSources
4 years, 4 cycles
9Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
OPAM : package management for OCaml
Opam
+
10Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
Ocsigen : Functional Programming in the Web
Functional WebProgramming
FOSSProject
or projects using FOSS
11Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
4 years reaching out to the communities4 hundred videos from meetings and hackatons
12Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
4 years, 4 actions for education and awareness
● FOSS Courses : Master Paris Diderot, Edite de Paris
● FOSS SourceBook http://www.foss-sourcebook.org
● FOSS for technology transfer Réseau Curie, CVSTENE, IEEPI
● FOSS teachers meetings
13Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
4 years, 4 key people at Irill speak
● Julia Lawall« a meeting place for innovation around open source software »
● Albert Cohen« Frees the initiatives! »
● Stefano Zacchiroli« a place full of opportunities for bridging computer sciences research and free software »
● Vincent Balat« a central hub of free software communities, focused on code quality and reliable programs »
14Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
4 years, 4 key testimonials
Louis Rodrigues – Linux kernel developer at SUSE Labs« Due to its ability of grouping researchers and developers with shared interests at the same place, Irill can collaborate with different corporations »
Lucas Nussbaum – Debian Project Leader« Working at the heart of free software communities to build scientific results, Irill provides an excellent example of transfer with high societal impact »
Tristan Nitot – Mozilla Europe founder« Irill is a structure that boosts free software in France, so that the entire ecosystem benefits »
Stéphane Fermigier – Founder and CEO of Abilian, President of GTLL« Irill structures and federates the work of numerous computer scientists around research topics that are unique to free software, and bridges these research activities with the needs of companies in these domains »
Credit photo: Thomy Keat
15Research and Innovation on Free Software • October 30th, 2014
A look at the future
Irill : a special structure worth replicating
come and talk to us to learn more
Our renewed mission : contribute to the growth and preservation of Free and Open Source Software
stay tuned for more information to come
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