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 !

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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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Irill : a place to bind them all

Developer Communities

Industries

Research and Education

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Irill, 4 years setting up a virtuous circle

Research

Prototype

FOSSProject

4 years, 4 cycles

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Coccinelle : killing bugs in the Linux kernel

SemanticPatches

Prototype

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Mancoosi : improving quality of distributions

Coinst upgrades comigrateDose distcheck buildcheck

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DebSources : all the source code at your fingertips

Mining SoftwareRepositories

DebSources

4 years, 4 cycles

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OPAM : package management for OCaml

Opam

+

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Ocsigen : Functional Programming in the Web

Functional WebProgramming

FOSSProject

or projects using FOSS

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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 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 »

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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

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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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You need Irill, Irill needs you !

Developers : collaborate with us !Companies : use and fund our projects !Researchers : connect with the communities !Teachers : share the good practices !Public bodies : support our action !