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The European Open Source Market Place

www.apphub.eu.com

Deliverable D5.2

Ecosystem Development Year 1

Project Number : 645096

Project Title : AppHub

Deliverable Number : D5.2

Title of Deliverable : Ecosystem Development at Year 1

Nature of Deliverable : Report

Dissemination level : Public

Licence : Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Version : 0.4

Contractual Delivery Date : January 1, 2016

Actual Delivery Date : January 10, 2016

Contributing WP : WP5

Editor(s) : Olivier BOUZEREAU (OW2)

Author(s) : Olivier BOUZEREAU (OW2), Cédric THOMAS (OW2)

Reviewer(s) : Peter Deussen (Fraunhofer)

AbstractThis deliverable is a report presenting the activities undertaken to

(a) recruit projects and assets,

(b) to evangelize cloud service providers and users,

(c) to extend the platform with complementary resources, and

(d) to develop connections and complementarities with other open source communityplatforms and the results obtained so far

Keyword listapphub, open source, software, quality, directory, market place, project, asset, platform,charter, community, advisory board, experts, best practices, CSP, users

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Document History

Version Changes Author(s)

0.1 ToC, document structure and initial details O. BOUZEREAU (OW2)

0.2 Tables and detailed information C. THOMAS (OW2)

0.3 Final draft O. BOUZEREAU (OW2)

0.4 Final O. BOUZEREAU (OW2)

Document Review

Review Date Ver. Reviewers Comments

Outline 11/12/2015 0.1 O. BOUZEREAU (OW2)

Draft 17/12/2015 0.2 C. THOMAS (OW2)

QA 06/01/2016 0.3 PMB

Final 10/01/2016 0.4 P. Deussen (Fraunhofer)

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Glossary, acronyms & abbreviations

Item Description

CA Consortium Agreement

CAB Community Advisory Board

CSP Cloud Services Provider

DL Deliverable Leader

DOW Description of Work

IAC Industrial Advisory Committee

MST Management Support Team

OCD Open Cloud Directory

OSS Open Source Software

PL Project Leader

PMC Project Management Committee

PO Project Officer

PTC Project Technical Committee

SL Scientific Leader

WP Work Package

WPL Work Package Leader

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction..........................................................................................................................1

2. Recruiting Projects and Assets.........................................................................................1

3. Evangelizing Cloud Service Providers and Users...........................................................2

4. Extending the Platform with Complementary Resources...............................................4

5. Connecting with other Open Source Community Platforms..........................................5

5.1 Identifying Potential Open Source Partners...................................................................5 5.2 Approaching AppHub Outreach Partners.......................................................................6 5.3 Contributing to the European Project Clusters...............................................................7

6. Conclusion...........................................................................................................................7

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1. IntroductionThis document presents the activities undertaken during the first year of the AppHub projectin order to:

(a) recruit projects and assets,

(b) to evangelize cloud service providers and users,

(c) to extend the platform with complementary resources, and

(d) to develop connections and complementarities with other open source communityplatforms and the results obtained so far

The following sections are simply following this plan to develop an ecosystem where allstakeholders can benefit from AppHub services.

2. Recruiting Projects and Assets This activity is related to Task 5.1 “Populate the platform with state-of-the-art open sourceprojects and assets”.

As of December 11, 2015, we have recorded in the AppHub Directory:

• 70 European Projects, 39 of them having assets

• 126 Open Source Assets

• More details: https://directory.apphub.eu.com/

Recruiting open source projects and their assets (source code and documentation) is criticalfor the success of the AppHub market place.

It is an important dissemination and exploitation vector for European software vendors. Also,it allows cloud services providers to grow their service portfolio, and to help modernize end-users IT systems.

As a consequence, the AppHub ecosystem development strategy is relying on the creationof a partner network including two main families:

• Upstream stakeholders such as open source projects (both collaborative andcommercial)

• Downstream stakeholders such as users, systems integrators and cloud serviceproviders, complementors such as related collaborative projects and potentialpartners such as other open source community platforms.

To create our mailing lists, we have used the OCEAN project Open Cloud Directory FP7 listand OW2 members as initial contacts. We also identified priorities as follows: FP7 projects,then H2020 projects then commercial EU open source developments, then non-EU opensource developments. As a result, we have established and used the following mailing liststo contact the upstream stakeholders:

• apphub-ecproject@ow2.org, to join 70 contacts involved in European projects

• concertation@cloudwatchhub.eu to contact European-wide cloud infrastructurecontacts registered by our partner project CloudWatch

• apphub-advisory-board@ow2.org to contact the ten members of the CommunityAdvisory Board

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We have informed the EU-supported open source projects through a mailing list and alsoinvited several of them to test the AppHub beta platform through customized email.

Our collaboration with CloudWATCH consortium started with the AppHub Position Paper1

proposed at Cloudscape VII (9 March 2015), then the third CloudWATCH Concertationmeeting at the Net Futures 2015 conference (25 March 2015) and was extended on severaloccasions, such as the next AppHub SQuAT Fest preparation.

The HolaCloud project was also collaborative and relayed our January 2016 workshopinvitation and agenda on its website: http://www.holacloud.eu/apphub-squat-fest-january-2016-brussels/

3. Evangelizing Cloud Service Providers and UsersThis activity is related to Task 5.2 “Partner Program development” and Task 5.3 “CloudChannel Development”.

As of December 11, 2015, we have identified potential AppHub Partners as follow:

• 15 European Cloud Service Providers from Germany, France, Norway, Poland, UK

• 63 European founded open source projects

• 21 Apphub survey respondents

• 12 selected AppHub Beta-testers

The exhibit hereafter shows the Cloud Service Providers Initial target list. The list is stillunder construction process and will be completed progressively.CSP Country URL

Claranet France http://www.claranet.fr/

Cloudwatt France https://www.cloudwatt.com/fr/

Ikoula France https://www.ikoula.com/

Numergy France https://www.numergy.com/

1und1 Germany http://www.1und1.de/

Acmeo Germany Name

ProfitBricks Germany https://www.profitbricks.com/

Strato Germany http://www.starto.de/

Intility Norway http://www.intility.no/

Oktawave Poland http://oktawave.com

Flexiant UK https://www.flexiant.com/

Iomart UK http://www.iomart.com/

Outscale UK www.outscale.com.

ProAct UK www.proact.eu/

TIG UK http://www.tig.co.uk/

Table 1: AppHub Cloud Service Providers initial list

To create our mailing lists, we have used OW2 partners, complemented with European CSP(see D5.1). We have also decided to create a list to collect beta-users feedback and tosupport AppHub services end-users. As a result, we have established then used thefollowing mailing lists to contact the downstream stakeholders – i.e. users, systems

1 http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/serviceoffers/apphub-european-open-source-market-place

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integrators and cloud service providers, complementors such as related collaborativeprojects and potential partners such as other open source community platforms. Please,read Section 2 for details about upstream stakeholders:

• apphub-news@ow2.org to inform 154 potential users about the latest project activities

• apphub-support@ow2.org to provide support to users exploring AppHub services

• apphub-csp@ow2.org to contact a list of European Cloud Services Providers

To support our efforts to recruit partners, either Cloud Service Providers or complementors,we are using several marketing collateral detailing the main benefits to join, such as:

• Dedicated AppHub Partner web pages with two sections for each kind of partners

• Cloud Source Partner logo for CSPs

• Cloud Source Outreach Partner logo for OSS forges, associations and foundations

• AppHub Partner brochure

• AppHub Partner leaflet

• AppHub Partner slide presentation

Figure 1: AppHub Partners Web page2

A promotion of the AppHub program and services started with the preparation and animationof the following workshops, and conferences during IT professional events:

Event Organizer Date Place

CloudScape VII Cloudwatch March 9/10, 2015 Brussels, Belgium

Cloud Expo Europe CloserStill March 11/12, 2015 London, UK

NetFutures 2015 European Commission DG Connect March 25, 2015 Brussels, Belgium

2 http://www.apphub.eu.com/bin/view/Partners/WebHome

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Event Organizer Date Place

Cloud Computing World Expo Cherche Midi Expo April 1/2, 2015 Paris, France

fisl Conference Software Livre Association July 8-11, 2015 Porto Allegre, Brazil

RRI-ICT Forum 2015 RRI-ICT July 8-9 Brussels, Belgium

OSCON O'Reilly Open Source Convention July 20-24, 2015 Portland, USA

ESOCC 2015 University of Messina Sept 15-17, 2015 Taormina, Italy

MICAS 2015 Amicas Project Sept. 21, 2015 Timisoara, Romania

CloudForward 2015 HOLA Cloud project Oct. 6-8, 2015 Pisa, Italy

ICT 2015 European Commission Oct. 22, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal

OSCON Europe 2015 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Oct. 26-28, 2015 Amsterdam, NL

OW2con'15 OW2 annual conference November 17/18, 2015 Paris, France

Paris Open Source Summit Systematic and Tarsus November 18/19, 2015 Paris, France

AppHub SQuAT Fest AppHub Project January 26, 2016 Brussels, Belgium

Table 2: IT Events with AppHub commitment

The OW2con'15 annual conference offered the opportunity to showcase AppHub services infront of developers of the OW2 members community. Hammr and erOCCI are two OW2projects already involved in AppHub beta tests.

For more information, please read D5.1 AppHub Partner Program.

4. Extending the Platform with Complementary Resources A combination of webinars, screencasts and surveys will support the ecosystemstakeholders. They will learn how to increase their portfolio of open source software, bybecoming an AppHub Partner and how to benefit from the AppHub market place andservices.

A first Screencast provides a tutorial about the AppHub platform. It explains how to browsethe AppHub Directory, how to create and publish a template image through the AppHubFactory, and finally, how the AppHub Store exposes European project assets, along withdescriptions, user reviews, and keywords. To view the screencast:

http://www.apphub.eu.com/bin/view/Videos/AppHub_Platform_Overview

The AppHub Cloud Source Partners will be able to provide to their customers an easyaccess to a large number of open source solutions available as ready-to-run VMs, thanks tothe AppHub Factory and the AppHub Store. Moreover, they will be able to monetize thispartnership by offering additional and complementary services to their professional users.

The AppHub Cloud Source Partner program marketing advantages are summarized here:

• Support for technical format

• Participation in webinars

• One-button connection

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• Mention in AppHub emailing communications and newsletters

• Logo on AppHub Website

• Listing on AppHub website

• Listing on AppHub Marketing material

• Joint marketing communication

• Joint Events

• Company profile on AppHub website

Moreover, the ecosystem will be contacted through workshops, public forums, mailing listsand social networks.

5. Connecting with other Open Source Community Platforms The AppHub Outreach Partner Program is accessible to all open source organizations, third-party forges, repositories and open source foundations.

5.1 Identifying Potential Open Source Partners

As of December 11, we have selected 15 potential outreach partners as follow:

• 16 Open Source forges and associations (or foundations)

AppHub Outreach Partners will promote European open source software in addition to theirexisting portfolio. This will provide additional visibility on the global market for European opensource software through:

• Cross referencing

• Listing on AppHub Marketing material

• Listing on AppHub website

• Logo on AppHub Website

• Mention in AppHub emailing communications and/ or newsletters

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The exhibit hereafter shows the Outreach Partners initial target list. The list is still underconstruction process and will be completed progressively.Outreach Partner Details about the Partner URL

Apache Software Open source software Foundation http://www.apache.org/foundation

Cenatic Spanish open source association http://www.cenatic.es

CloudStack Open Source Foundation http://cloudstack.apache.org/

DMTF Standard Organization http://www.dmtf.org/

Eclipse Open Source Software Foundation http://www.eclipse.org/org/

Free Software Open Source Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org

FusionForge Open Source Forge http://fusionforge.org

GitHub Open Source Community https://github.com/

OGF Open Grid Forum https://www.ogf.org

Open Source Initiative Open Source Foundation http://www.opensource.org

OpenNebula Open Source Foundation http://opennebula.org/

OpenStack Open Source Foundation http://www.openstack.org/

SNIAStorage Networking Industry Association

www.snia-europe.org

SoftwareLivre.org Brazilian Association fostering open source software usage

http://softwarelivre.org/

SourceForge Open Source Community http://sourceforge.net/

TuleapOpen Source software forApplication Lifecycle Management

https://www.tuleap.org/

Table 2: AppHub Outreach Partners initial list

5.2 Approaching AppHub Outreach Partners

European open source events offer an opportunity to approach local AppHub Partnersalready active on their respective market.

IT has been decided to approach such complementors during a second phase, once wehave developed a critical mass of Cloud Service Providers.

Nevertheless, the AppHub team attended Paris Open Source Summit, November 18-19,2015 (POSS 2015) where OW2 community provided a booth to four partners includingIkoula French CSP and Open IO, a local open source object storage software editor.

The AppHub team was also involved in two sessions during POSS 2015, the CommunitySummit and Collaborative Innovation sessions, organized by OW2.

Seven leaders and practitioners from OSS communities shared their best open sourcedevelopment practices during the Community Summit, including Thierry Carrez (OpenStack),Roberto Di Cosmo (IRILL), Jim Jagielski (Capital One), Gaël Blondelle (Eclipse), SophieGautier (Document Foundation), Stephen Walli (HP) and Simon Phipps (OSI).

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Also eight EU-funded open source projects illustrated how multinational partners leverageopen source in European programs to help shape the future of the IT industry, includingAppHub, Artist, Harness, PaaSage, Amaltea4Public, ASCETiC, INTO-CPS, MODACloudsprojects, and the Big Data Value Association.

Download POSS 2015 presentations and discover more photos about the event:

http://www.ow2.org/bin/view/Events/Paris_Open_Source_Summit

5.3 Contributing to the European Project Clusters

The AppHub Project team is also proud to be part of the four Project Clusters of Europeanprojects, namely:

• Software Engineering for Services and Applications

• Inter-cloud Challenges, Expectations and Issues

• New Approaches for Infrastructure Services

• Data Protection, Security and Privacy in the Cloud

The goal of these clusters is to create a critical mass of projects addressing the topic relatedto cloud computing approaches so to share experiences, collaborate on approaches anddiscuss challenges for adoption and future research.

More information:

https://eucloudclusters.wordpress.com/

6. ConclusionThis document offers an overview of the activities undertaken to develop the ecosystem ofthe AppHub market place.

To create a partner network, with upstream and downstream stakeholders, we have torecruit cloud service providers as well as open source organizations.

We have started to provide online and printed documents to detail the benefits of joining theAppHub Partner program. Then, we have driven first interactions with them during ParisOpen Source Summit 2015.

We will use these contacts as well as first partner and beta-tester feedbacks to fine tune newAppHub services targeting both upstream and downstream stakeholders.

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