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 !
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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
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4 years reaching out to the communities4 hundred videos from meetings and hackatons
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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
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4 years, 4 key testimonialsLouis 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
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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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