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Yury Glikman Elected Chairperson of the Board of OW2
March 2016 by Marc Jacob
OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software and application platforms announces the new Board of Directors, in charge from March 22, 2016 to March, 21, 2017. The board has re-elected Yury Glikman as its Chairperson and President of OW2 for the second consecutive year.
A long-term board member of OW2, Dr. Yury Glikman is a researcher and a group leader at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin. His group is currently working on open data and IoT platforms for Public Sector with a special focus on technical interoperability.
"OW2 should strengthen its position as a recognized centre of excellence for Open Source Governance. A significant amount of work has been done in this direction during the previous years. OW2 is now well positioned to foster methods and practices that both commercial and academic Open Source projects can refer to", declared Yury Glikman, OW2 Chairperson of the Board.
Wei-Tek Tsai (Beihang University) and Yury Glikman (Fraunhofer FOKUS) were candidates. We are greatly appreciative to Wei-Tek Tsai for his continuous support of the OW2 Board.
The new Chairperson of the Board was officially announced during the OW2 General Assembly, at Cloud Computing World Expo, March 23, in Paris. Find more information about OW2 presence at Cloud Computing World Expo 2016 through the following Press Releases:
1. Announcing the Open Cloud Village at Cloud Computing World Expo Paris
2. OW2 Demonstrates AppHub, the European Open Source Marketplace
3. OW2 Unveils CHOReVOLUTION Studio for IoT and Web services-based applications
Feel free to download :
1. A photo of Yury Glikman, OW2 Chairperson of the Board
2. OW2 presentations and photos at Cloud Computing World Expo 2016
The next opportunity to meet the OW2 community in a public trade show is during Cloud Europe Expo in London, April 12-13, 2016.
