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**About me?**

[[AFUL>>url:https://aful.org/]] | [[Twitter>>url:https://twitter.com/stephaneribas]] | [[LinkedIn>>url:https://fr.linkedin.com/in/stephaneribas]] | [[GitHub>>url:https://github.com/rstephane]] | [[Email >>url:http://mailto:[email protected]]]|

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I am Stéphane Ribas, a french "lucky" boy, as I lived the rise of the internet, its infrastrucutre, its protocols, its applications but as well as the rise of the open source movement. I am discret guy who prefers actions coupled with a good communication - but always behind the scene.

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I spent 12 years in software industries & services, mostly in innovative technologies - open source oriented -. Thanks to the people I meet & the projects I collaborated on, I developed very strong skills in building & fostering Internet communities.

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I joined INRIA, a french public research institute in mathematics & computing, in 2008 to co-lead OW2 Europe Local Chapter & contribute(d) to several other Open Source projects & consortiums. I wrote several articles on how to "build and sustain Open Source Communities". I presented my ideas and approaches in different conferences.

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Today, I joined the INRIA direction team. I am helping INRIA research teams to create & develop their own communities (**community over code!**), I help them in the choice of governance model, oss licences, project dev. lyfe cycle & how to animate the project & create a vibrant community. I am following them, helping them, monitoring them. I am also helping the INRIA at large in their Open source governance/strategy.

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[[image:https://fossa.inria.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/openness-256x300.jpg]]

**Others**

In parallel, I am one of the main organizer of the [[fOSSa conference>>url:http://fossa.inria.fr]] (Free Open Source Software for Academia). fOSSa is a conference about Open Source and beyond: Open education, open collaboration, open data, open standard, open hardware & open-ness. **Simon Phipps & Martin Michlmayr participated to the first and third edition.**

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I am working on two projects as a **community manager**: [[Poppy - Humanoid robot>>url:https://www.poppy-project.org/]] and [[Natron>>url:http://natron.inria.fr]].

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I meet and regularly collaborate with many small, medium and important open source organisations :-)

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I teach Open Source (culture, business models, licences, etc) at a business school in Grenoble, french alps, France.

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**Why should you consider my application ?**

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I am proposing my application through the [[AFUL>>url:http://aful.org]] organisation. This consortium adresses the usage of open source in France by industrials, small companies, & institutions, provide advices & reports to our government, defends users, defend opensource, spend a lot of time to educate, etc.. I am proud to work at their board & I do the interface between AFUL and research institutions in France. I help them also to animate the AFUL community. I have a good knowledge of the french universities & engineering schools eco-system. I have also several industrial contacts.

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By applying to OSI board, I want to bring my help and knowledge to:

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* the **animation** of the OSI community,

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** asking/answering questions that members have,

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** update regularly the website and the social networks media,

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** help to organise current initiatives,