A great first day at #OW2con2026 in Paris!
OpenProject's @RosannaSibora, @wielinde, and Christophe Bliard joined the open source community for insightful discussions on this year's theme: Open Source and Open Models to Drive European Sovereignty.
It was inspiring to exchange ideas on how openness, transparency, and collaboration can strengthen Europe's digital future.
#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanSovereignty #OpenProject #FOSS #OW2 #OW2con
This week our @openproject team is attending the @ow2 #ow2con in Paris. If you would like to chat with us, feel free to approach us.
Itβs great to exchange with the community to gather new insights on their needs, use cases and pains.
We also discuss a lot the topic of leading change within organisations and guiding users on the journey from closed source to open source.
The filter is gone
The friction that maintained contribution quality for 30+ years has been removed. We need intentional replacement, not nostalgia.
This is not about Al
It's about context, intent, and relationship. The projects getting this right aren't banning tools.
They're redesigning the social contract.
We don't need more code
Wo need more care
Layers 3, 4, and 5 of the contribution stack, context, intent, relationship are human layers. They cannot be automated. Only cultivated.
"Writing code has become effortless; reading and verifying code remains profoundly difficult. Open source is straining under this asymmetry." - Philippe Ensarguet
Open source was never just about code, it was about care, context, and trust. But AI-generated contributions are flooding projects with plausible-looking noise: slop PRs, hallucinated bug reports, vibe-coded patches no one understands. We are having multiple testimonials of examples where maintainers are overwhelmed. This talk argues we must redefine "contribution" beyond lines of code. In the age of AI slop, the real signal is human judgment, review rigor, and community stewardship. We don't need more code, we need more care.
Philippe Ensarguet on AI slop and open source:
The beautiful lie....
The open source model is built on a beautiful lie: code is the contribution
It never was
The code was a proxy, for understanding, for investment, for belonging The friction was the filter
Hello from OW2con π
Today, Richard Brock will be sharing how Collabora Office helps organisations stay in control of their documents while enabling collaborative workflows across desktop and browser environments.
If you're attending OW2con (@ow2), stop by and say hi!
π Main Stage
π 12:10β12:30
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Rosanna Sibora π GPN
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Collabora Office
Sebastian Raible
Sebastian Raible