1. OPEN SOURCE INNOVATION CATALYST
Organized by IRILL (http://www.irill.org)
with support from ICT Labs (http://eit.ictlabs.eu)
Welcome
Roberto Di Cosmo, Director of IRILL
Patrick Moreau, Software Assets Manager, Inria
Paris, 24 novembre 2011

2. Inria in a nutshell
• Inria, the French national institute of digital science is dedicated to
fundamental and applied research in information and communication
science and technology (ICST).
• Budgetary Resources:
– 250 M Euros
• Human Resources:
– 4,300 persons including 3500 researchers
• Scientific Activities:
– 208 research teams
– 4,850 scientific publications
• Industrial Relations:
– Around 1000 software (50% in open source)
• But INRIA is not an editor: research prototypes only

3. Inria, a player in free software
• Inria is convinced that free software plays an essential role in developing a
digital society
– Inria distributes today over 500 free software
• Numerous OS communities : Scilab, Monolix, Amaya, Coq, …
• CeCILL licenses
• Strategic member of OW2
• Launch of the IRILL, (the Initiative for Research and Innovation in Free
Software)

4. Focus on IRILL : accompanying FOSS growth
• Face the new challenges
– scientifc,
• new scientific and technological problems from FOSS,
• unprecedented change of scale in software artifact size and speed of
evolution
– 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,
• Help transfer from academia to industry, and ease bottom‐up
innovation,
• Foster an open ecosystem approach to information technology

5. Focus on IRILL : bridging communities

6. Impact and Transfer
• Integration of research results => Increase of competitiveness
• In open source components => significant productivity gain
• Open source => fluid transfer and innovation activities.
• FOSS from research, aka innovative OS, is a key enabler for technology
transfer, essential to produce the innovation on which the
competitiveness of modern industry relies.
– IMPACT: to use
– TRANSFER: to edit
• The good period:
– From a “Me Too” period to an innovative one

7. Observation
• Several obstacles:
– Lack of skills (technical, legal, economic, community management) of
the industrial stakeholders,
– Lack of confidence in Research Open Source software,
– Lack of visibility of sufficiently mature open source “research
software”
• A large part of innovative open source is not visible by the industry
• It is not an easy subject:
– High complexity, requiring real expertise
– Innovative

8. Open Source Booster
• ICT Labs introduced in 2011 the idea of an «open source
booster» among its other instruments
• This workshop will contribute to shape this instrument
– Experience reports both from academia and industry with innovation and
technology transfer using open source software
• lessons learned, methodologies,
• good practices, uses cases or common mistakes are welcome
– The program alternates presentations from industries and from research
academies

9. Program
• OtaSizzle ‐ an Open Platform to Transfer Technology from a Research Project to Practice
– Olli Pitkänen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
• Kassi ‐ creating business opportunities from an open source research project
– Juho Makkonen, Kassi
• Possible industrial use cases of KALIMUCHO
– Philippe Roose, Associate Professors, LIUPPA/Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'UPPA
• Polarsys (previously OPEES) as a mean to catalyse the maturation process (from TRL3 to
TRL6) for OSS projects in the Embedded Software space.
– Gael Blondelle, OBEO
• Open Source Innovation Factory
– Paolo Ceravolo, Assistant Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in collaboration with Engineering Group
• Open source and Standardisation
– Jamil Chawki, Orange Group
• An Open Source‐Based Approach for Industrializing Research Tools
– Hugo Bruneliere – R&D Engineer – AtlandMod Team (INRIA, EMN & LINA)
• Creating Value with Open Source
– Teodor Danciu, Founder and Architect JasperReports, Jaspersoft

10. Next steps
• Building the “Open Source Booster” program
– to identify the partners and strenghten the network
• Task 1: ICT Labs Open Source teams and Good Practices Networking
• Task2: Common open source development model
• Task3: IPRA (Intellectual Properly Rights Analysis) and cartography and
qualification of the assets
• Task4: Dissemination
• Node initiatives in the area of Open Source
– Paris: “Program Open Source Transfer” strongly linked with the IRILL center
– To be completed for each nodes