It is this time of the year again ! The whole BlueMind team wishes you a very happy festive season. Whether it’s with family, friends or in your professional activities, we hope that they will be full of joy, happiness and memorable moments.

The year 2023 has been full of challenges and successes for BlueMind! Every one of our blog posts, every one of our speeches, every one of our activities, bears witness to our commitment to our mission: to offer you the choice of a French messaging solution that reconciles user habits and sovereignty.

Buoyed by our successes and convinced that our vision is the right one, we’re naturally staying the course for the year ahead, with new challenges in store! The year 2024 will be synonymous with great innovations and shared moments. We’re looking forward to continuing this adventure with you and taking on new challenges together.

May this new year be a source of inspiration, success and fulfilment.

On behalf of the entire BlueMind team, we would like to thank you for a wonderful year and wish you all the best for 2024.

Happy holidays!

In a press release published on 6 April, Bruno Le Maire, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, and Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition and Telecommunications, announced the winners of the France 2030 call for projects for “Cloud-based collaborative office suites”, the aim of which is to accelerate the scaling-up of collaborative office suites by French players.

This call for projects, launched in April 2022 and operated by Bpifrance, has resulted in the selection of three winning projects, led by Wimi, Jamespot and Interstis. They bring together 18 partners, including XWiki for collaborative publishing, 3DS Outscale for data hosting on a SecNumCloud-qualified platform, and BlueMind for email.

BlueMind has been selected for the following project:

• IS Suites, led by Interstis, aims to build and market a sovereign office and collaborative suite that is simple, simple and secure. It is supported by an industrial consortium of six French publishers with expertise in complementary areas of the digital workplace. The consortium partners are: Interstis, 3DS Outscale, BlueMind, Scille, Belledonne communication, Tranquil IT System and XWiki.

[Systematic Paris-Region press release]

At its Executive Board meeting on 11.10, Systematic Paris-Region elected Pierre Baudracco as President of its Open Source Hub.
Pierre is founder and chairman of the publisher of the BlueMind open source messaging solution, the alternative to MS Exchange and 365, and has been involved in the open source ecosystem and Systematic for many years. It is a pleasure to welcome him to this position to lead the cluster’s open source dynamic.

📍 The President’s roadmap

The Open Source Hub has set itself the primary objective of federating the entire Open Source ecosystem and is pursuing its initial mission of promoting, in France and Europe, all the industrial and academic players in Open Source.

The issues supported by the Hub are multiple and intersecting between business and innovation, academic and technological communities, producers, suppliers and consumers, employment and training, and are ultimately European.

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 is one of Systematic’s 7 Deep Tech Hubs, with a distinctive feature: it is a means to an end, not an end in itself!
As such, it has a cross-cutting and collaborative vocation with the other Hubs that carry the technological challenges around AI, cybersecurity, IoT, cloud development and infrastructure platforms, 5G technologies, biometrics, quantum platforms…

📍 Taking into account and distinguishing between the 2 contexts of use of Open Source (as tools and technological building blocks to build one’s systems or as an end-user solution) is a challenge to clarify realistic Open Source approaches, expectations and business models depending on the context.

An additional strength in the Hub’s ambitions

to strengthen relations with all the hubs, contacts, partners and organisations, such as CNLL, numeum, Cigref, OW2, Eclipse Foundation, or the public authorities
continue to federate and promote the industry through national and international studies and events such as the Open Source Experience
highlighting integrators by encouraging the emergence of Open Source and standards-based technology foundations and building blocks
supporting software publishers in the development of sovereign solutions.
To find out more, visit

https://systematic-paris-region.org/

https://systematic-paris-region.org/hubs-enjeux/hub-open-source/