OW2con'24

3 TOSIT's organizations trying to initiate different ways of financing or contributing strongly to open source
2024-06-11 , Main stage

This presentation will focused on the return of experience of 3 organizations of TOSIT association :

MAIF : 1. Funding of individual developers and 2. Creation in open rather inner source (mélusine, shapash...)

SNCF : 1. Creation of PostgreSQL.fr interentreprises 2. Major investment in TOSIT 3. Co-creation of open rail Foundation

ORANGE : Establishment of a network of 15 partners based on recurring annual budgets such as maintenance to sustain support for Orange and in turn, for the open source ecosystem.

Simon CLAVIER is a french Engineer whose background is electrical and biomedical engineering before specializing on IT for the last 25 years, through a wide diversity of missions, from development to governance through sysadmin.
He is working for SNCF Group since 2007, in 2013 he achieved a MBA focused on Systemic and new kinds of management and organizations and then became « Open Source Strategist ».
He is since convinced these two sujects are key factors of a successfull and sustainable digital transformation, as you have to act with people through a «reinvented organization » [1] and chose technologies you are able to control.
He is a cross-entreprises cooperation activist on Open Source : President of TOSIT (The Open Source I Trust) [2], Vice-President of the « French-Speaking PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group » [3] and active stakeholder in the "OpenRail Association" [4].

  1. https://www.reinventingorganizations.com
  2. http://entreprises.postgresql.fr
  3. https://tosit.fr
  4. https://openrailassociation.org .

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Head of IT modernization program & Head of opensource strategy at MAIF.

Founded 85 years ago, MAIF has developed a human-centred mutual insurance model. Each member is both insurer and insured. This singularity has been reflected since our origins in our organization, our missions, our actions. We offer a different, responsible and efficient model, based on trust. Our opensource strategy cover 4 challenges : promotion of opensources solutions instead of private licenced solutions, contribution to opensource project that we use, edition of opensource solutions (https://maif.github.io/) and contribution to opensource usages developpement in French big compagnies.