Florent Zara

Biography

Florent is a French & Canadian Engineer and has been heavily involved, both personally and professionally, in the FLOSS community since 1999. Today he is an admin at Linuxfr.org and the COO of Henix.

Born in 1998, LinuxFr.org is the reference french-speaking, community driven website about Free and Open Source software. It is also open to subjects like DIY or Open Data. With more than 1,2 millions visitors per month, it is a real institution operated by volunteers and only financed by donations and « mécènes ». Florent is an active member since 2001 where he is top contributor, moderator and admin, partnerships and contests manager as well as a board member of the NPO representing the website.

As the COO of Henix since 2003 he is involved in Technical Qualification of Applications, he acts as an advisor in OpenSource Governance and License issues as well as taking an active part in internal Free/Open Source projects.

Track leader on

Plenary Session

The plenary session gathers a panel of experts who, in a collaborative exercise, discuss and explain current and future challenges: the major orientations of the sector, the convergences with the concept of open government, the economical impacts, the role of community actions and our perspectives.

OWF Summary

This Round Table will gather together the program team to draw conclusions to this 7th edition of the Open World Forum. Animated by Stefane Fermigier, The Round Table will start by a summary of the Open CIO Summit and will be concluded by a guest star keynote.

Firefox 10 years

We will celebrate 10 years of Firefox with all the Mozilla crew in Paris

Privacy

If privacy begins with a good "Digital Hygiene", you also need some good alternative tools and frameworks to proprietary solutions to help protect your professional and personal data, one of the most valuable thing that a lot of people try to collect, with or without your agreement.