The AAL Open Association

1. The AAL Open Association Francesco Furfari CNR-ISTI francesco.furfari@isti.cnr.it AAL Forum 16 Sept 2010 Congress Centre Odense

2. Outline AAL Forum 2010 Odense A brief history of the Manifesto The Status of the Community The Mission Association Next actions

3. You are here OpenURC? OHT? Continua? FP7 projects AALiance Conference - Monami Project contacted Preparing the ICT Networking session - OASIS project WASP @ HealthCom universAAL AAL Forum Manifesto V0.12 Manifesto V0.1 Lisbon Workshop - AALOA Website ready Other Projects contacted - Osami (ITEA) - Soprano - Wasp Persona AAL Forum 2010 Odense

4. The Logo ... not only greetings The ALOA Marginata is a Moth Actually we are now a Caterpillar The transformation will be completed at the end of the incubation phase of AALOA AAL Forum 2010 Odense

5. Communitywww.aaloa.org AAL Forum 2010 Odense • 44 subscribers organized in 2 groups • Promoters • Supporters

6. Supporters AAL Forum 2010 Odense

7. Promoters AAL Forum 2010 Odense

8. Public mailing lists AAL Forum 2010 Odense

9. Statistics AAL Forum 2010 Odense 44 Subscribers 25 people from Research Institutes 19 people from Industry and SMEs

10. The mission AAL Forum 2010 Odense “Provide a shared open framework for developers, technology and service providers, research institutions, and end user representatives to discuss, design, develop, evaluate, and standardize a common service platform in the field of Ambient Assisted Living.” Bring together the resources, tools and people involved in AAL in a single forum that makes it much easier to reach conclusions on provisions needed to achieve AAL progress

11. Target Communities Evaluation End Users Reference Implementation Standardization Market orientation AAL Open Association Industry OS Communities a non-profit organisation open to individuals, institutions and industry. Research Institutions Advances AAL Forum 2010 Odense 11

12. Manifesto Key Points AAL Forum 2010 Odense • Fragmentation of the research efforts • Separated market segments • Paradigm shift (transversal cooperation over diverse market segments of many stakeholders) • We differentiate between infrastructure software and application services ... • Open Source Policy is a valid strategy • Federation of projects ... how to converge on common solutions • Long term vision • New languages, AAL Space as networked devices • Short term vision • Reference architecture to standardize and integrate the resources available in AAL environment

13. Convincing industries to collaborate by usingan OS approach • The problem for many companies is: • how to combine their business strategies with open source software, • how to control on the software evolution in order to save their competitive advantage. • It is worth to remember that, historically, Open Source have positioned towards the platforms and the infrastructural/back-end side of the software spectrum [1]  [1] Brian Behlendorf“Open Source as a Business Strategy” in Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O’Reilly Eds,1999 AAL Forum 2010 Odense 13

14. 3rd Generation FLOSS organizations AAL Forum 2010 Odense • 1st generation: loosely coupled enthusiasts communities • the GNU project • 2nd generation: strongly integrated communities of individuals • the Apache Software Foundation • 3rd generation: foundations composed of stakeholders from industry, users and communities • the Eclipse foundation, OW2 Definitions by François Letellier (OW2)

15. From 2.5 Generation Community AALOA will start with a minimal support from SMEs 3,5 Gen. Community 2,5 Gen. Community AALOA objectives are beyond pure industrial interests 3rd Gen. Community 2nd Gen. Community AAL Forum 2010 Odense

16. Association Principles AAL Forum 2010 Odense • Technology neutral • It means that we search for the best solution • Independently of the interest of any technology provider • Transparent • Regarding the technological solutions provided and promoted • Regarding the governance rules and strategic choices • Open • No discrimination of person , group of persons, or companies • Clear process definition to join the association and to be nominated for the various elective offices • Non profit • Just the interest to create market conditions • Costs covered mainly by donation / sponsorship 16

17. Association (www.aaloa.org)Keep it Simple AAL Forum 2010 Odense • Federation of projects • Not only software projects (see proposed mission) • E.g. a thematic conference with its own scientific committee could be supported by the association as project • Simple Management • Board of Directors (OS oriented) • The board mainly decides to accept the new initiatives (mission compliant) • No interference in the design choices of the various projects • Advisory Board (Industry oriented) • Provide a forum for communications among the industries and the research community • advise on technical & market problems • Organized in Working Groups

18. Associationotherconsiderations AAL Forum 2010 Odense • Involve • Individuals, other associations, companies • Diversity • Do not force monoculture (do not filter ideas) • Many projects free to organize their governance rules • Common rules will emerge by practice • Association as common space to share ideas • Easy adaptation to new needs • Bylaws amendable to convey new players • Bylaws amendable to manage a supersized association

19. Next Actions AAL Forum 2010 Odense EvAAL (started - evaal.aaloa.org) ZigBee4OSGi (October) WASP - Workshop on AAL Service Platforms PERSONA Middleware universAAL , MonAMI, Soprano Inviting research groups to contribute to the long term vision of AALOA

20. Be Involved !! AAL Forum 2010 Odense Support AALOA info@aaloa.org francesco.furfari@isti.cnr.it