The OSPO Alliance launched by OW2, Eclipse Foundation, Foundation for Public Code and OpenForum Europe promotes the OSPO methodology developed by the Good Governance initiative.
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Project of The Month: OCS Inventory

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 OCS Inventory Open Computers and Software Inventory is an assets management and deployment solution. It benefits from a MRL score of 8/9. Learn about OCS Inventory recent updates, events and major use cases.  More.

Projects Market Readiness Levels Focus : JORAM

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With an established customer base of early and mainstream users and a stable financing, JORAM (MRL 7) is considered as an established business based on an established product, open to community support. View JORAM Market Readiness synthesis.

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Open Source Webinar by OW2 0.1 

OW2 is launching a new webinar series ! If you missed the first edition of April 11 the replay is now available. 

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OW2 MRL (Market Readiness Levels) introduced at OSPO OnRamp Webinar Series, April 2024 0.3 

Learn more about the OW2 MRL (Market Readiness Levels) methodology to evaluate open source solutions. Join the OSPO Alliance OnRamp webinar, April 19 at 10:00am. 

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OW2con'24 : Open Source Community Annual Conference 0.4 

The OW2con'24 program is now live, check it out and register now to get your free pass. Sponsorship is still open, contact us for more information.  

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OW2 Community Elections 2024 0.5 

The election process is over. We are pleased to announce the new Board of Directors, including Clément Aubin (XWiki), Gilles Viton (Orange), Philippe Bareille (City of Paris), Davide Dalle Carbonare (Engineering Group), Yuri Glikman (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Clément Oudot (Worteks), Christian Paterson (Open Up), Vincent Untz (Centreon), and to Amani Jebali (SOFRECOM) as individual member representative. 

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Open Source Book by OpenStudio  0.7 

OW2 has contributed to the preparation of this booth with an interview from Pierre-Yves Gibello and from other community members. Many thanks to the OpenStudio team for launching this!

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