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Try this new software to generate realistic artificial data and enable safe data sharing between companies.
Using a new trend in Machine Learning, it creates a dataset that’s fully synthetic, i.e. does not contain data of real people or entities, but yields the same results upon statistical analysis. Because it does not contain real data, it is privacy-preserving and GDPR compliant.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

This campaign aims at getting content in the form of new architectural big data/AI blueprints mapped to the BDV reference model and the DataBench pipeline/blueprint. In this campaign, the beta testers are advanced users that would like to contribute with practical examples of mapping their architectures to the generic blueprints.

Testers should study the available DataBench information and guidelines. Then using the provided steps testers should prepare their own mappings, resulting diagrams and explanations, if any. The Toolbox provides a web form interface to upload all relevant materials that will be later assessed by an editorial board in DataBench before the final publication in the Toolbox.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

This campaign targets Micro enterprises and SMEs to adopt and be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Thanks to aims to the SMOOTH project, they can implement easy-to-use and affordable tools to generate awareness on their GDPR obligations and analysing their level of compliance with this data protection regulation.

The Entry Questionnaire automatically generates a Compliance Report that provides a series of recommendations to improve your company’s compliance with the GDPR. Check more about the initiatives and give the Smooth platform a try.

For more instructions, please read the campaign instructions

Evaluate the Crowd Journalism platform on your mobile phone or from any terminal with a web browser, without downloading any app. Then, answer to the feedback questionnaire. 

Based on a blockchain infrastructure, the Crowd Journalism platform ensures anonymity, secure and immutable transactions.

With this first version, you will be able to evaluate both its mobile crowd streaming application, and the Multiviewer/Classifier/Editor.

These outcomes of the Articonf H2020 Project provide a new set of trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable decentralised social media services.

The GeoTriples Spark campaign aims to check if the program can handle any given term map. Feel free to try and execute the project with different term maps, to check how it handles them.

Try the GeoTriples Spark beta release, an extended version of GeoTriples capable of transforming big geospatial data into RDF graphs. To enable the transformation of big geospatial data, GeoTriples has been extended to run on top of Apache Spark and Hadoop or Hops (a new distribution of Apache Hadoop developed by KTH, RISE SICS, and Logical Clocks AB). 

GeoTriples-Spark can run in a standalone machine or in a Hadoop based cluster, but it is more efficient when it runs on Hops as it is a write-intensive application.

Publishing geospatial data as Linked Open Geospatial Data

GeoTriples generates and processes extended R2RML and RML mappings that transform geospatial data from many input formats into RDF.

Following a collaborative consumption trend, existing car owners can rent their cars to other people for a short period of time. This use case allows Android mobile phone users to rent a vehicle temporarily on-demand at a variable fee depending on the distance travelled or usage.

Beta-testers can act as a driver or as a passenger. The driver is a person who wants to rent a car and drive it for a short period of time from one point to another. The passenger is a person who wants to share a car with other people (at least with a driver) for a short period of time from one point to another.

For more instructions, please read both Car sharing beta-testing campaigns

Try the IoF2020 Beverage Integrity Tracking system, an IoT based solution to monitor the transport conditions and to open a direct channel from the producer to the retailer.

Testers should sell wine to retailers over the summer/beginning of autumn period.

B.I.T  uses Internet of Things technologies to obtain data on shipping conditions and on final client satisfaction, allowing beverage producers to exactly know if, when and where accidents occur during transportation (excess heating, low temperatures), and to receive feedbacks from final retailers (comments and/or complaints from wine shops & restaurant clients).

Image source: Dransy (Nectar delivery)

Date: Sept 23, at 4:00 PM

In this webinar, you will learn the basics to start using the ReachOut platform and create your own beta-testing campaign. This webinar will also give a special focus on early user recruitment, a critical aspect of the campaign success. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

Recorded previous webinar sessions are available in Tutorials. 

The STAMP toolsuite has been evaluated by professional Java teams in Europe, including EC-DGIT, CGI, Orange, Sopra-Steria, Station-F startup campus, Universities and SMEs.
The campaign feedback raised several technical issues, a few needs for software extensions and more programming languages.       

Modeliosoft development team (Softeam) tested the deployment and usage of the CROSSMINER platform. The beta-testing campaign targeted business users and developers.
Among the results obtained, the team achieved a reduction of 40% of average time needed to evaluate existing open source components used in a Modelio project architecture. They've also enjoyed a 25% reduction of average time needed to choose open source components.

Cross-CPP integrated Final Prototype of AGORA Data Marketplace offers a privacy and secure platform to trade-off (buy and sell) Vehicles and Building datasets. 

The objective of this campaign is to get feedback from the User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) of the frontend application. We would provide detailed instructions to follow the processes from 

1. Service Provider (Digital Company, Data-driven startup, etc.) to create "Data Requests" or 
2. Data Owner to accept these "Request" and transform into Offers and Contracts.

On Wednesday 24 June, Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, joined a networking session organized by NGI Ledger and BluMorpho with speakers from FundingBox, Blockwall Capital Fund, and the B-Hub supporting Blockchain companies. He had the opportunity to present the ReachOut platform to 16 SME decision makers.

The Impact Week is a digital week where participants create their own programme to connect, exchange and build through positive impact. They can join digitally and get to know impact leaders, investors and makers that have been working on new and sustainable solutions to address challenges of today and tomorrow.

Check out the Impact Week Programme. 

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Get insights on best practices and tools for user acceptance testing of digital solutions by the EU projects IoF2020 & ReachOut. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

User Acceptance Testing (UAT), also known as End-User Testing or Beta testing, is crucial to receive early feedback on usability and relevance of features from your future end-users and to discover, record and correct any defects at an early stage. Basically, it’s the closest thing to a real-world test.

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Visit: OW2Online'20 website

OW2con'20, the open source annual conference of OW2 goes online, with one day of online presentations on June 17 and 1/2 day of break-out sessions on June 18. 

The ReachOut project is presented by Alexandre Lefebvre, from UShareSoft.
Check out the OW2online'20 conference program for more information about the talks and sessions organized this year.

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Webinar #5 Produce a properly packaged software easy to access and deploy

Date: May 27, at 4:00 PM

In this webinar, you will learn the basics to start using the ReachOut platform and create your own beta-testing campaign. This webinar will also give a special focus on the software packaging, and how important it is to make the software package easy-to-test by beta testers. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

Recorded previous webinar sessions are available in Tutorials. 

Webinar #4 How to build an efficient and attractive testing scenario?

In this webinar, you will learn how to register your project and beta-testing campaign in ReachOut. We will give a special focus on the testing scenario and provide you with some useful tips to improve your scenario. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

Recorded previous webinar sessions are available in Tutorials. 

Webinar #3: ReachOut questionnaire tips to maximize feedback from beta testers
Date: March 25, at 4:00 PM
Duration: 30 hour(s), 0 minute(s)
In this webinar, you will learn how to create an account, register your project and your beta-testing campaign, then how to align your feedback questionnaire with your testing scenario, how to use the campaign monitoring, and how to use the reporting dashboard. Also, in this webinar we will focus on tips when tuning the feedback questionnaire, in order to maximize feedback from beta testers. 

To attend this webinar, please register here.

Recorded sessions are available in Tutorials

Webinar #2: How to run a successful campaign using the ReachOut dashboard
Date: February 25, at 4:00 PM
Duration: 33 hour(s)
In this webinar, you will learn how to register your project and beta-testing campaign in ReachOut ; how to tune the feedback questionnaire, monitor, and report a successful campaign through their dedicated dashboard. 

To attend this webinar, please register here.

Recorded sessions are available in Tutorials

FOSDEM
Date: February 1-2, 2020
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
https://fosdem.org/2020/

ReachOut is presented at FOSDEM 2020 on the OW2 booth. 

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

Date: 16/1/2020
Time: 4:00PM to 4:30PM

In this brief webinar, you will learn how ReachOut can help you, how to create an account, register your project and create a first beta-testing campaign. Also, you will discover how to use the questionnaire template for beta testers, then how to launch and monitor your campaign. 

To attend this webinar, please register here.

Recorded sessions are available in Tutorials

Paris Open Source Summit
Date: December 10-11, 2019
Venue: Dock Pullman
87 Avenue des Magasins Généraux, 93300 Aubervilliers
Visit: https://www.opensourcesummit.paris/

The ReachOut Project will be showcased at OW2 booth during Paris Open Source Summit, Europe's premier event on open source, free software and open innovation. International conference summit, business fair and community event, OSS Paris highlights the driving role of open source technologies in current and future digital transformations. The Collaborative Innovation session organized by OW2 will illustrate how multinational partners leverage open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs. It will include a presentation of several H2020 projects involving the community, including the ReachOut Project.

Event: 20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Date: November 27 to 29, 2019
Place: Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Registration: https://profes2019.upc.edu/registration/

ReachOut: A beta-testing platform for research projects
Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, will present the H2020 ReachOut Project at PROFES 2019 in the European Project Space at 8:45 on November, 27, 2019.
With contributions from Alexandre Lefebvre (UShareSoft) and Yuri Glickman (Fraunhofer FOKUS).

Check out the Profes'19 pictures and presentations

EclipseCon Europe 2019
Date: October 21-24
Place: Ludwigsburg, Germany

The ReachOut Project will be presented by Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO,
at EclipseCon Europe 2019, October 21-24 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. 

In the Research area of this event, two EU-funded H2020 projects will be introduced by OW2:
- STAMP
- ReachOut

For more information about EclipseCon Europe, please visit: https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2019/

Event: 2nd Hamburg Requirements Engineering Symposium
Date: 4 September 2019
Place: iteratec GmbH - Am Sandtorkai 76 - 20457 Hamburg 

Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, introduced the beta-testing campaigns using ReachOut to the OpenReq project participants, at the 2nd Hamburg Requirements Engineering Symposium organized in the framework of the OpenReq Week. This opportunity was the starting point of a fruitfull collaboration between both projects. 

Check out the pictures of the meeting

OW2con'19
Date: 12-13 June 2019
Place: Orange Gardens, Paris Châtillon
Registration: https://www.ow2con.org

During the OW2 open source community annual conference, the ReachOut project is represented by the OW2 team, in parallel with three of the first European projects starting a beta testing campaign using ReachOut:

• CROSSMINER: Integrating and Deploying Heterogeneous Legacy Components Inspired On A Microservice Architecture, a talk by Amin Boudeffa (Softeam)
• MELODIC, Multicloud Optimization And Cloud Agnostic Deployment Platform, a keynote speech by Konrad Wawruch (7bulls.com)
• STAMP test automation for Continuous Integration, a talk by Caroline Landry (Inria)

More about the program and free registration: https://www.ow2con.org

The ReachOut project kick-off meeting took place on January 10-11, 2019
The two-day meeting was hosted by project partner UShareSoft in Grenoble, France.