Current research activities

• Distant learning laboratories : how to use virtualization, containers or cloud tools to devise laboratories for teaching in MOOCs, for instance. In this context I've worked on :
  • different virtual labs in the context of the FLIRT project (see below)
  • a Vagrant-based virtual lab environment for a Relational Database MOOC (more details, in french);

• Quality assurance process at large scale in the FLOSS communities : how to provide developers and maintainers, packagers and other actors with interoperability solutions in order to improve quality, response time, monitoring facilities, etc.

Other more general or past topics, keywords, and research interests :

• Interoperability and standardization
• Semantic Web and Linked data
• Libre Software production, distribution and maintenance (distributed development, software forges, bugtrackers, packaging, etc.)
• Virtualization and Cloud

I've been a Debian Developer (now retired), and maintained a few packages, along with bits of QA work.

• Organising committee of OpenSym 2018 in Paris.

Program Committee member of Free / Libre / Open Source Software Research Track of OpenSym 2014 (Berlin)

PhD jury member for Andrei Sambra.

Co-organiser of the software development track of "Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre"

Contributor to the ADMS.F/OSS (Asset Description Metadata Schema for Free and Open-Source Software) specifications for the ISA program of the EC

COCLICO project (FUI) on forges interoperability

Contributor to the OSLC-CM (Open Services for Life-cycle Collaboration - Change Management) open specifications

HELIOS project (FUI)

Contrib 2.0 GET project (projet incitatif).

Coordinator of the international research track at FISL 7, Porto Alegre (Brasil)

EU FP6 CALIBRE project (Coordination Action for LIBRE software).