The management of the whole software development supplier chain of has seen a dramatic increase of complex sourcing that combine internal IT resources from contractors, both onshore and offshore providers, and use of Open Source. In this talk we will present, Antepedia, the biggest Open Source projects knowledge base available, addressing some of technical challenges, we are facing at Antelink setting up Antepedia, and open the discussion regarding key issues such as
- open source compliance,
- multi-source tracking from open source components to distro provider like debian community,
- Software quality assessment related to multi-source tracking,
- R&D opportunities based on Antepedia.
Speaker : Guillaume Rousseau, Antelink CEO and co-founder. Guillaume is a former assistant professor from University Paris Diderot. He worked 3 years at INRIA Paris Rocquencourt Research Center, working on IP tracking Methodologies and tools. In 2009, he created Antelink (http://www.antelink.com), a spinoff from INRIA
Antepedia (http://www.antepedia.com) is the world biggest Open Source projects knowledge base with more than 940.000 open source projects and more than 210.000.000 files that are downloaded from GoogleCode, SourceForge, Maven Central, Debian repository and other sources such as savannah, RubyForge and OW2.