10 Years of Open Source with OW2, Gabriele Ruffatti, OW2con'17, Paris
The story of open source at Engineering Group started by networking with international communities. The first one was ObjectWeb in 2005, followed by the collaborative foundation of OW2 in 2007. I still remember the final preparation workshop in Rome, in November 2006 … it’s been a long time. This coming speech won’t be just a celebrative talk: it will introduce both a reflection about lessons learned by one of OW2 founding members and a look at future prospects and challenges of open source in the era of digital innovation, aiming at keeping the spirit of the ground values of open source alive over time. In 2010 I wrote the paper “Which open source software for the current decade? Five questions for the future”. It’s now time to answer to its final question: “Which approaches and real opportunities do we need to adopt in order to lead the business and technological innovation towards a new knowledge-intensive way of producing and living?”. Trust, one of the open-source key-words, is part of the answer: progress is not possible without trust, in the digital world.
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10 Years of Open Source with OW2, Gabriele Ruffatti, OW2con'17, Paris
- 1. TEN YEARS OF OPEN SOURCE WITH OW2 Gabriele Ruffatti Engineering Group
- 2. Y 2006 preparing workshops in Paris, Brussels, Rome Y 2007 first events and meetings BACK IN THE OLD DAYS
- 3. To learn how the open source community operates (from the inside) To enter a wide network of contacts To act in a multivariate and international context To be an actor in the open-source ecosystem and grow in one’s reputation EXPECTATIONS
- 4. THE JOURNEY DO YOU REMEMBER?
- 5. ACTORS
- 6. 10Y LATER, NEW FRIENDS CELEBRATING OW2
- 8. A mature and lively community with a clear vision of the future Guidance to market awareness for projects Preservation of the spirit of open-source A community of friends 10Y LATER - FIRST STAGE Open source awareness Open source competence Open source leadership Projects (SpagoBI > Knowage)
- 9. LESSONS LEARNED Open source is a path, not a destination: it reinvents relationships and business dynamics it give access to a wide network of contacts. Don’t skip to the end of the path walk the path Take the leadership Introduce actionable activities Be agile Give (and justify) tangible results Be a driver for change expect resistance to cultural change commit people to make things happen collective benefits are more valuable than personal benefits
- 11. TECHNOLOGICAL DISRUPTION IN WORKPLACES
- 12. ALGORITHMS
- 13. CHALLENGES, UNCERTAINTY, LOSS OF CONFIDENCE • Infrastructures • Digital transformation • Analytics
- 14. THOUGHTS INFRASTRUCTURES IT users looks for fully integrated and simple-to-use products Open source is key, but usability and integration are more important DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION change of mindset, data-driven culture CONNECTED PEOPLE & OBJECTS standards, security, privacy, … DIGITAL BUSINESS opportunity-oriented initiatives bottom-up experimentation data discovery, agile development and immediate use hackatons, sandboxes, fablabs exploration and innovation tactical/rensponsive approaches
- 15. PROBLEMS A system of values and moral principles to conduct digital interactions among people, business and things IP (sharing) for software IP (protection) for analytics
- 16. DEEP LEARNING IS CREATING COMPUTER SYSTEMS WE DON’T FULLY UNDERSTAND ALGORITHMS Replicate people bias and cannot be biased Embed traditional (and new) evils of social discrimination Generally black-boxes
- 17. TRADEGY OF THE ALGORITHMIC COMMONS
- 18. DATA-DRIVEN CULTURE MEANS A CHANGE OF MINDSET AND BEHAVIORS OVER STEWARDSHIP FACILITATION SHARING CURATION ETHICS OWNERSHIP CONTROL SECURING GOVERNANCE LEGALITIES
- 19. TRUST NO PROGRESS WITHOUT TRUST shared resources relationships and network NO SHARING WITHOUT TRUST WHAT’S THE TRUSTWORTHY THRESHOLD WE CAN ACCEPT?
- 20. TRADE-OFF ETHICAL DILEMMA SOCIAL DILEMMA WHAT’S THE TRADE-OFF?
- 21. ROLE OF OSS
- 22. “Which approaches and real opportunities do we need to adopt in order to lead the business and technological innovation towards a new knowledge-intensive way of producing and living?” MY OLD QUESTION (Y 2010) http://spagoworld.eng.it/xwiki/bin/download/Resources/OSFiveQuestionsFutureRuffatti/OSC2010%2DSubmission%2DRuffattiIT%2DEN.pdf
- 23. FIRST ANSWER
- 24. SECOND ANSWER Technical acumen balanced with the creative insights Encourage people to: trust other people be free (of charge) be empathetic embrace love HUMANITIES HUMANS not algorithms or software HAVE ETHICAL ABILITIES
- 25. MY APPROACH TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION (I’M FOR EMMA)
- 26. MY LEGACY TO ENGINEERING That’s why ENGINEERING is happy to celebrate 10Y OW2 now!
- 28. @gruffatti gruffatti@gmail.com Credits to: OW2, Gartner Inc., Ferrero, Le Trèfle, Moral Machine project, E. Grassi, D. Pedreschi, and everyone posting images on the internet GREETINGS