Cela fait 8 ans que nous prenons part à des projets de recherche européens. Nous avons participé à 14 projets (H2020, ECSEL, ITEA, BMBF) en soutenant leurs activités de diffusion, de community building et d’exploitation de logiciel open source. Il y a des réussites, mais aussi des échecs. Dans les deux cas, nous avons beaucoup appris sur la façon d’optimiser notre soutien à nos partenaires et à leurs projets ainsi que sur les résultats obtenus. Dans cette présentation, nous souhaitons partager avec vous le retour d’expérience de ces 8 dernières années afin de mieux comprendre : - les motivations de ces équipes pour inviter une fondation open source à participer à un projet de recherche, - les motivations de la fondation pour accepter l’invitation, voire la solliciter, - les défis auxquels sont confrontés les partenaires lorsqu’il s’agit de passer en open source en cours de projet, - les solutions que la fondation Eclipse a mises en place pour faciliter l’adoption des bonnes pratiques en matière d’open source, - des exemples concrets de réussite ou d’échec, notamment celui d’un projet open source qui a réussi à passer de la phase de recherche à une exploitation industrielle.

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Publishing
your research results
with an open source foundation
Philippe Krief, PhD
Research Relations Director
Eclipse Foundation

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Dear Eclipse Foundation,
We would like you to join this project
to help us with the following points:
● Sustainability
● Community Building
● Dissemination
Sincerely,
an Eclipse Member
Why the Eclipse Foundation is invited?

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Why DID we accept invitations?
✓ To support our members
✓ To gain new members
✓ To retain existing members
✓ To gain new technologies
✓ To improve existing Eclipse technologies
✓ To diversify our revenues

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Why DO we accept invitations?
✓ To support our members
✓ To gain new members
✓ To retain existing members
✓ To gain new technologies
✓ To improve existing Eclipse technologies
✓ To diversify our revenues
✓ To promote Eclipse projects and members
✓ To evangelize on Open-Source & OSS Best Practices
✓ To enrich existing Eclipse ecosystems and working-groups

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Research Project proposal invitations

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Challenges & Proposed Solutions

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Year 1
● I don’t want to open my source
● You don’t make money with OS
● Code coming from 5-75 partners
● Open and Close source code
● Own development tools
● Own/No development process
● Open-source is awesome & easy
● Open-source is an hippie stuff
● What is the difference between GPL
and Apache licenses?
● Open development
● Common development platform
● Open-source best practices
● OSS Education
● What is open-source
● What are the different OS licenses
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● Open-source business models
● Open-source success stories
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The partners bring their project vision and code
Challenges Solutions

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● Copyrights are missing
● Who owns this code?
● License selection is missing
● Third-party dependency IP issues
● No time to communicate
● No time to disseminate
● No time to document
● Why do you need a community
● How do you build an ecosystem
● Invite to create demos
● Invite to Eclipse events
● In-house development then publish
● No CI/CD
● Open-source best practices
● “Drive with open eyes”
● Preliminary IP reviews
● OS licenses compliance management
Year 2
The consortium develops its first prototype
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Challenges Solutions

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The consortium publishes its results
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● I want to build an ecosystem
● Do I need to become an Eclipse member
● Role of a Project or Working Group
● Create or join a project or WG
● No time to open-source
● No time to meet developers
● No time to document
● Run for a new proposal
● I don’t want to open my source
● I want to open-source my part
● Organise specific webinars
● Invite the project to Eclipse events
● Help in creating short videos on demos
● Help creating a Getting Started
● Support follow-up proposals
● Support Golden Nuggets
● Run after Early Adopters
Year 3
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Challenges Solutions

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Examples...

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A success story: Eclipse KUKSA
Open Source Connected Car Platform
✓ Open-source activity strongly supported by the coordinator (BOSCH)
✓ Eclipse project proposal submitted during the kick-off meeting
✓ Several partners had a good experience in Eclipse Development process
✓ License selected and specified in the project proposal
✓ Met open-source communities from Y1
✓ Organised meetups, Hackathons, and presentation from Y2
✓ Documentation, demos with a rover available very early
✓ Early-adopters
✓ Key partners are still involved in the code

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It’s OK to fail
> 3 different coordinators in 3 years
> Planned to open-source
the whole project
> Initial contribution submitted too late
> Political issues
(one tech partner left the project)
> None of the partners (but Eclipse)
wanted to stay in the project
> ...

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Takeaways...

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Use Open Source
for the sustainability
of your Research Projects
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Build a platform incrementally

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Open Source is a journey,
not a destination
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as a catalyst
for Open-Source collaboration
between research and industry
Photo taken at 2018 ASCE (Credit: Graham Carlow)
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Thanks you
Philippe Krief
philippe.krief@eclipse-foundation.org
(Don’t hesitate to contact me)
@ResearchEclipse