1st OCTOBER 2009 - 11.00-12.30 - EUROSITES GEORGE V, PARIS


09.00-10.30

OPEN WORLD FORUM OPENING KEYNOTES: with Jacques Attali, Andrew Aitken, Matthew Aslett, Michael Tiemann, etc.

11.00-11.15

The Jolicloud strategy and vision

Tariq Krim, CEO, Jolicloud

11.15-11.30

Mobility Open Source Projects in France

François Bancilhon, CXO, Rydeka

This talk will describe various on going initiatives and projects in the mobility space using an open source approach.

11.30-11.40

Embedded devices : community distributions for open-source smartphones

Pierre Pronchery, Hackable Device R&D Manager, Bearstech & Julien Cassignol, Hackable 1 Team Leader, Bearstech

Openmoko released their GTA02 (Neo Freerunner) smartphone more than a year ago, and this device raised a huge amount of hope & effort from the community. Two distributions raise above the others in terms of visibility, and overall goal: hackable:1 and SHR. This device and these distributions are today at the cornerstone of the internet of things, and are good examples about how a community can take a product in its hand, and take it to the next step.

11.40-11.50

The Archos vision of mobility and its mobile product range

Jérôme Gilbert, Archos

11.50-12.00

Flash drive, PC on a stick, Portable desktop: Mobility through very portable and physical devices

Patrick Ferran, Dexxon

Carrying your own digital environment around with you when on-the-go is no longer an interesting feature but rather a necessity. Different solutions exist, from computing in the cloud to laptops and lighter-weight netbooks to mobile communicators to smaller devices like flash drives, to name a few. The latter is our focus of interest today. With increased memory capacity, and smarter controllers, flash drives can host complete OS, data, applications, secured browsers. They act as your secured vault, usable on any platform and any computer, which in turn become terminals with computing power and web access. Such devices are autonomous devices, yet physical in the sense of a personal object, but granting access to your digital world in a self-contained mode. There is a space for such smart devices in the near future, and in certain market segments, as these devices become more and more sophisticated, smaller in their form-factor and adaptable to all kinds of terminals. Combining a physical, unexpensive object one can feel, own, personalize with the capacity to securely and easily engage into one's digital life from anywhere, can probably help reduce the digital divide in the medium term.

12.00-12.10

CAPucine : A Dynamic Software Product Line for Mobile Environments

Laurence Duchien, Technical Manager of the ADAM EPI, INRIA Lille and Nicolas Dolet, INRIA Lille.

This presentation will talk about a Context-Aware Dynamic Software Product Line (DSPL) for building service oriented applications and adapting them at runtime in accordance with their using context, e.g. a mobile environment. This DSPL, named CAPucine for Context-Aware Service-Oriented Product Line is based on two different processes for product derivation. The first process uses assets that represent features of the product family. The assets, represented as models, get composed and transformed in order to generate the product. The second process relates to dynamic adaptation. This process introduces context-aware assets that operate at runtime. These context-aware assets contain three kinds of data: the context when the assets can be modified, the place where the assets must be applied and the change that must be performed. The realization of these context-aware assets combines two runtime platforms. On the one hand, COSMOS is a context-aware framework connected to the environment by the use of sensors. On the other hand FraSCAti is an open source Service Component Architecture (SCA) platform with dynamic properties that enables to bind and unbind components at runtime. CAPucine allows designing and processing context-aware applications based on an SCA platform which is dynamic, introspectable, and reconfigurable in accordance with the context environment. This tool will be transfered to an INRIA Spin-off in 2010. This tool will provide a definite advantage to the spin-off as it will hide the complexity of such a software production and build a new product will be much more elementary and quick.

12.10-12.30

GNOME Mobile

Dave Neary, Gnome Foundation

With Linux on mobile devices becoming more and more ubiquitous, the search for a standard Linux mobile platform continues. The GNOME platform is widely available in mobile application platforms, including Moblin, Maemo and the LiMo reference platform. The platform has also allowed the speedy design and implementation of custom user interfaces and vertical apps for single-use hardware, including television sets and GPS devices. This presentation will present an overview of the core elements of the platform, including some of our most surprising users, and will show you how to contribute to and leverage the platform.

12.30-14.00

Cocktail-Lunch and networking

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