The European Open Source Market Place

An Introduction

Cédric Thomas, OW2

Open Cloud Forum by OW2

Cloud Computing World Expo, Paris, 1-2 April, 2015

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Collab. Project Deliverable

Software Market Expectations

POCsUse-casesDemonstrationsCode

Documentation RoadmapUpgradesBug-fixingTrainingSupportPackagingCase studiesCollateralPricingContractsEarly adoptersEtc.

GovernanceSustainabilityCritical mass

Open Source Specifics

DeliveryChallenge

IT Industry

OSS SMEsCollab.

Projects

MainstreamMarket

DeliveryChallenge

AppHub's mission AppHub addresses the delivery challenge of EU-supported OSS

Bridging OSS SMEs and Collaborative projects with the mainstream market

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AppHub facilitates the dissemination of your open source software assets

All market players addressed

Producers: Developers, Project Leaders, EU-projects, OSS SMEs

Consumers: OSS usesrsand integrators, European industry, public sector, SMEs

Providers: Cloud IaaS providers (self-service)

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Open interoperability framework:Taxonomy for open source assets

Packagingversiononing

publishingMarket Place

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Template Creation

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Expose appliance in AppHub Factory Marketplace

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User creates cloud accounts

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User generates and publishes image

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Charter: Commitment to implementing legal, technical and community management best practices

Make projects easy-to-contribute-to

Improve the overall perception and market readiness of the projects

Improve projects' perceived trustworthiness

Make projects sustainable: worth contributing to, worth investing in

Overall, improve professionalism of EU SMEs- and EU-supported open source projects

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The AppHub Advisory Board

Theo Lynn (Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce)Lars Kurth (Xen) Sophie Gautier (LibreOffice)Roberto di Cosmo (IRILL)Patrick Ohnewein (FSFe)Wei-Tek Tsai (BUAA)Francesco Chicchiricco (Apache

Coccon, Syncope, Olingo)Manuel Velardo (Cenatic)Dave Neary (Red Hat)Nelson Lago (Uni Sao Paolo

FLOSS Competency Center)

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Quickstart Create your Project on the Directory

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Five easy stepsto register youropen source project

Step 1

Log in AppHub Directory

Step 2

Add Your Project

Step 3

Add Open Source Asset

Step 4

Qualify Your Asset

Step 5

Add Resources To Your Asset

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Project at a Glance Partners:

Fraunhofer FOKUS (Research organisation, Coordinator)

OW2 (Open Source Community)

UshareSoft (Technology and Service Vendor)

H2020

Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2016

Collaborative and Support Action

www.apphub.eu.com

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Now let's talk!

Thank You