Our Community Involvement

Since its inception, LINAGORA has always wanted to keep the community spirit of Open Source, this fundamental principle of reciprocity by which consumers are also contributors, creating a virtuous circle essential for its growth.

There are several ways for a company to get involved and contribute:
 the company launched its own project,
 she decided to donate a commercial product in the world open source
 she became involved in a third project by providing human resources.

An concrete involvement

Today LINAGORA is at the heart of innovation with its open source business solutions publisher. We are very proud to bring a project like OBM (OBM is free software, developed since 1998 by the LINAGORA, downloaded nearly 1000 times per month and production at sites of some users to tens of thousands).

In addition, LINAGORA maintains close ties with many open source communities. The company employs some of the contributors of this universe, including OpenOffice.org, Fedora, Kubuntu, also ... Linagora pilot community projects, such as InterLDAP (through the consortium FederId) or Nareto. Similarly, the team regularly OSSA submit patches to the community and the developments for our clients are returned each time they have an interest. .

Finally, this activity by publishing open source but also by the experience of our teams under contract OSSA, LINAGORA can now be proud to have among its members, experts and credible to both screws vis the communities but also our customers. It is this expertise and knowledge that brings to LINAGORA companies because it is not always easy to make its choice of Open Source solutions available...

A sincere involvement

In addition to its strong and direct support to Open Source, LINAGORA is also heavily involved in initiatives aimed at encouraging the development of Open Source in France.

Linagora.org :

LINAGORA anime Linagora.org, a community site which has all the contributions to the Free Software community:
 contributions of the team OSSA
 documentation and howto made by our engineers at work or home projects.
 course materials prepared by LINAGORA presentations given by our engineers at conferences and seminars

La FniLL

Formerly ASS2L the FNILL is the National Federation of Industry of Free Software. Its purpose is to represent and unite all the diverse eco-system Libre: manufacturers, traditional publishers, software houses, publishers, Open Source, publishers oriented services, SS2L, and even users who are also producers of free software.

The FNILL with the arrival of big players (STERIA, UNILOG, SOPRA, UNISYS, OSIATIS, INGRES) of information in addition to pioneers BULL and IBM, has more resources and greater legitimacy. With the FNILL, the market does begin to be structured and has a legitimate organization to represent the diversity of economic actors in the free software.

The OBOOE (Open Source Business Organization of Europe) which unite the various national associations dedicated to free software in Europe, already among its members FNILL French (National Federation of Industry of Free Software). As President of the FNILL of Alexandre Zapolsky is representing France at the OBOOE

TooLinux

Toolinux is a news site dedicated to Linux and open source software. Since its inception in May 2000, Toolinux funded entirely by LINAGORA, has become a reference medium with users of free software, and professional. The site has since its inception a glimpse of the daily news of the free, community life, interviews, opinion articles and a press review.

Host communities and relays

LINAGORA provides concrete ways communities (local loans) to help contributors to the meetings to be held in the best possible conditions. It is a time to exchange and share important means in an informal setting to discuss new developments of products or to highlight the developments envisaged by our customers. In the first quarter of 2009, LINAGORA allowed the French Association of Drupal developers and a major meeting in the presence of OpenLDAP Howard Chu.

Community experts in LINAGORA

True to its commitment to the open source community, LINAGORA also chose to recruit Sophie Gautier, head of the Francophone OpenOffice.org project. With a thorough knowledge of the management of communities, but especially the OpenOffice.org project, its role in LINAGORA is a part of supporting businesses and organizations at all levels of migration and on the other to involve these companies in a more active participation in the OpenOffice.org project, becoming both the customers but also contributors to the project..