Co-innovation and Free and OpenSource SoftwareIf that was not only the release or code but of an entire community?

Yves MIEZAN EZODirecteur Smile Training

Secrétaire Général CHALA - Bureau FOSSFA Bureau Apreli@ - Vice Président ISOC France

SOMMAIRE

● Principles and issues in OpenSource

● From the theory of benefits to the common good

● From the federation of ideas to the rising of community

● Contribution ? Community to value creation

Principles and issues of OpenSource

● Definitions and principles of freedom

● Concepts of sharing and acceptance principle

● The individual perspective

● Point of view of companies

Definitions●Free software : software that can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction.

●Definition of Open Source Initiative (OSI):

● freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 1);

● freedom to study how the program works, and adapt to your needs (freedom 2), and for this, access to source code is required;

● freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 3);

● freedom to improve the program and release the improvements to make the whole community benefits (freedom 4);

●A software that not fit completely one of these freedoms is called proprietary software by foss advocates.

●Endorsed by the OSI

Examples

● Most known FOSS :

➢ Linux,

➢ Apache,

➢ PHP, RoR, python,

➢ MySQL, PostgreSQL,

➢ OpenERP, TinyERP, Dolibarr,

➢ Alfresco, Drupal,

➢ Etc.

Concepts of sharing and Interests

● Ease of Use

● No proprietary stress (cost of license and renewal)

● Adaptation of applications to the specific needs of the organization

● Acquisition facility (Internet download)

● Multiple applications

● International Technical Support (community)

● Reliability and security software

● Homogenization of application code (World Wide Web Consortium)

● Runs on all platforms

Individual motivation

● Technical challenge

● Belonging sense

● Legitimacy and financial autonomy

Organizations Motivations

● Independence / Reliability / Technology Interaction

● ROI / Cost of acquisition / Possession

● Scalability / Sustainability

● Modeling approaches of OpenSource

● Different models

● Valuing community

Different models

● The community model

● The model "Services"

● The model "freemium "

● The model "coalition" on the middleware

● The model "cooperative customers"

Different models

Motivation Segment Modèle économique

Services Expertise, software, support

Coalition

Community Technics, passion application, nicche R&D, volunteeringFinancial whole

Freemium Prodcut, finance Middleware, functionnal application Double licencing

Sharing production costs Middleware, functionnal application

Expertise, integration, services model

Cooperation Independancy, capacity building whole

● From the federation of ideas to the emanation of communities

● The specificity of developping countries ; African examples

● African Community Or African Communities

Key figures

●Annual OpenSource estimated tunover : 18 billions $USD

●Estimated structural growth : 60%

●Consumption models :

➢ USA : ex. RedHat - 523 M$ !

➢ Europe : ex. Smile – 25M€

➢ Afrique : ex Assistweb - 2M€

●According to the Gartner Group, 90 % of the organization will use FOSS by 2012.

Contibution ?

Opportunity for Africa ?

● Easy access to Information

● Dramatically reduce the cost of technology acquisition

● Increased educational opportunities = massive education

● Capacity building in technical skills and technological knowledge

● Multiplication of skills

● Participation in the development of the global FOSS industry

● Affirmation of the African particularity

● Reliability and durability of specific and local applications

The @frican Community

● Finding n°1 : Socio-professionnal category

➢ Developpers Community

➢ Teachers Community

➢ Scientist or Researchers Community...

● Finding n°2 : Language Community

➢ French speaking communities

➢ English speaking communities

➢ ...

● Finding n°3 : On the road to the new deal

➢ Continental and transcontinental projects

● Contribution ?

● Several concrete projects and initiatives

● CHALA & FOSSFA

● Example of a continental project : RIF

● Example in education: Apreli@

● Example in health : OpenYalim

● Example in telecoms : Emerginov

South countries initiatives

● Several public and private initiatives to develop actions aiming to reach the millenium goals and reducing the numerci gap

●FOSS strategies in Tunisia, South Africa, Vietnam, Brazil, …

●Infrastructure and acces strategic policies in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, ,...

● Ressources Éducatives Libres : more than 4500 GFDL (GNU Free Documentation Licence), coming from 350 University

● Campus numériques in more than 60 countries (Burundi, Haiti, Bulgarie, Moldavie, Maroc, Algérie, Madagascar, Comores, Cambodge,

➢Vanuatu, ...)

● Business Consortium

● CHALA - Club des Hommes et femmes d'Affaires du Libre en Afrique

● FOSSFA – Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa

● AFRINIC - African regional registry for IP addresses

● AFNOG - Group of African networks operators

● …

● Users consortium

● Réseau African des Logiciels Libres – Panafrican FOSS Association

● The CJK Initiative China, Japan and Korea Consotrium

● Software Livre – Latin american consortium

● Political Initiatives

● Russie : plan for the transition of federal executive bodies and agencies for the use of free software for 2011 - 2015 years.

●Seneclic – Senegal : reducing the numeric gap by FOSS based educative equipment

● Linux Educacional 2.0 – Brazil : 54 000 research laboratoies computers and servers on GNU/Debian KDE

● Government Open Source Software Resource Center - Afrique du Sud : fournir à tous les niveaux de gouvernement (du local au national) un centre de ressources sur les logiciels libres et OpenSource.

National communities

The RIF Project

RIF – Ressources Internet Francophone

● Mirror sites for FOSS

● Initialized in 2001 by the IFN, Institut de la Francophonie Numérique, in collaboration with IRD Montpellier (Institute for Research and Development) and national FOSS associations.

● Goal :

● Easy downloading of FOSS through mirror sites proximity in south countries

● Burkina Faso,

● Cameroon,

● Côte d'Ivoire

● Madagascar

● Mali

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...Apreli@

Association pour la Promotion des Ressources Educatives Libres @fricaines

● Awareness of the production of African Open Education Ressources and pedagogical innovations

● initial and continuing training of teachers,

● capacity building,

● educational reform and conciliation in the course of African education systems

● integration of local languages and cultures

● Promote the development and coordination of partnerships and networks, especially for the collaborative creation of resources

● Create a space for information, dialogue, exchange, sharing, support and assistance to facilitate the readability, coherence and synergy initiatives on Open Education Ressources in Africa.

● Support or implement projects using or producing Open Education Ressources in Africa

●My CM2 class : Creating a curriculum of academic CM2 courses

●Workshop content production expertise that capitalizes on CM2 exercices● Students accustomed to the use of the computer perform better regard-

less of the type of media without taking care of the type of support "

●E-Jumlegage : Apreli@ e-Twinning educational network

● deployment of the Reli@ project (Open Educational Resources for africans teachers

● Mermoz-Sacré Coeur of Dakar and Aprli@ and the Citty of St. Maur des Fosses (France)

●E-twinning for Ziguinchor (Senegal) and City of St. Maur des Fosses (France)

...Apreli@

● Fact : The imaging medical specialists are in big cities ; therefore an application of telemedicine to reduce the gap between urban and rural areas is needed

● 2 doctors, from Côte d'Ivoire and Togo create a free software for transmission of medical imaging :

● provide a platform adapted to the context of telemedicine in developing countries

● provide an adapted environment for development of telehealth networks

● Furbish available an integrated online e-health soft, easily configurable to be adapted to the needs of telemedicine projects

●Furbish to telemedicine projects an 24/7 available technical support

...OpenYalim

...Emerginov

● An Orange Labs project aiming to :

● provide an OpenSource infrastructure for IP Multimedia subsidiaries in developing countries and connecting infrastructure to the local production telecom network

● Stimulate the creation of micro-telecom services to link the GSM worlds (voice, SMS, USSD) and Web worlds with local partners in innovation

● Building together a library of business applications under a free license and generate local content

CHALA is one of the Emerginov special Partner

To see further : https://tv.emerginov.org/

Contact Information :

Yves Miezan Ezo

L'OpenSource en Mouvement

yves.miezan-ezo@chala.biz

yves.miezanezo@smile.fr

@miezanezo