FOSDEM 2016 devroom

Title: Open Cloud

Description

Cloud Computing, or using online resources for running applications, is becoming common in every domain: infrastructure (IaaS), execution environments (PaaS), user applications (SaaS), etc. With Open Cloud, we want to guarantee users the freedom to control their data usage, avoid vendor lock-in, and adapt services to their needs.

Because Cloud Computing requires to send data on remote services, the use of Open Source and Free Software is not sufficient to build an Open Cloud.

This devroom will  cover technical and non-technical aspects of Open Cloud, including:
- Data privacy aspects in the Open Cloud
- Open source personal clouds solutions,
- Standardization in REST frameworks and APIs,
 Cloud services interoperability solutions,
- Service Level Agreements standardization.
   
The devroom day will end up with a panel about Open Cloud.

Possible speakers / organizations:
- Tristan Nitot on the data privacy challenges in the Open Cloud (CozyCloud project)
- XWiki on REST applications in the Open Cloud
- Jean Parpaillon on cloud services standardization (OCCIware and erocci projects)
- ActiveEon about the open-source ProActive solution for cloud management
- UShareSoft on open source tools for multi-cloud deployment (TBC)
- Doc Searls from Personal-Clouds.org
- Henri Verdier, France CTO about the French State Cloud and the data and technical issues it raises
    

Why does it fit to FOSDEM

We believe data privacy, openness and user freedom are totally in line with Free Software and Open Source community objectives, and FOSDEM in particular. As more and more solutions are deployed with cloud computing and web applications technologies, we need to face these challenges with technical and non-technical solutions.

Preferred slot: full day

Submitter's affinity to the topic

Jean Parpaillon is the chairman of the OW2 Technology Council as well as a research engineer at the French Inria lab. He has been involved for more than 10 years in open source projects on the domain of operating systems, distributed systems and cloud computing. He is actively participating in the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group, a standard API for cloud computing focusing on implementations. He is the main architect of the OCCIware project sponsored by the French FSN, aiming at developing a comprehensive toolchain implementing the OCCI standard. He is also the main developer of the open source Erocci OW2 project, an erlang-based OCCI-compliant REST framework.

Relevant URLs

- OCCI working group: http://occi-wg.org/
- OCCIware project: http://www.occiware.org/bin/view/Main/
- erocci framework: http://erocci.ow2.org
- OW2 and OW2's Open Source Cloudware Initiative: http://ow2.org  http://www.ow2.org/bin/view/Cloud/  
- Reprendre le contrôle de ses données, Tristan Nitot http://www.lechappeevolee.com/tristan-nitot-reprendre-le-controle-de-ses-donnees-numeriques/
- Personal Clouds working group: http://personal-clouds.org/
- CozyCloud: https://cozy.io/
- The Open Cloud RedHat's Perspective http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/The-Open-Cloud-Red-Hats-Perspective