Software has now become essential in all areas of scientific research, both as a research tool, as a research product and as a research object. The Software Chapter of the National Committee for Open Science is in charge of fostering the implementation of the Software section of the National Plan for Open Science in France.

By building the largest archive of Software Source Code ever developed, Software Heritage is creating en essential infrastructure for cultural heritage, education, science and industry.

Software Heritage is a non profit, long term, open, international initiative to collect, preserve and share the source code of all publicly available software, in partnership with UNESCO. It caters to the needs of cultural heritage, industry, academia, public administration, and society as a whole.

I have been on leave at Inria, working like crazy to set up the IRILL initiative. See us at http://www.irill.org

In the long years spent at this institution, I have been head of studies for the 4th year in the Computer Science curriculum, head of studies of the DEA Programmation, member of the direction of the prestigious MPRI master and head of graduate studies for over 5 years. In several occasions I have been on leave to Inria, either to perform research, or to help structuring the Paris area research and innovation landscape. From 2003 I have been involved in research projects ranging from regional to national, to european ones. I am particularly proud of the work done on the Mancoosi project, that I set up and coordinated.

Set up and coordinated for 4 years the Mancoosi european research project, with 10 partners from 3 continents, leading to over 40 international publications, and several software products now incorporated in leading GNU/Linux distributions. During this period, besides the pleasure to lead a scientifically challenging consortium, I did cope with the significant administrative burden imposed onto coordinators by the complexity of the different administrations from the different partners, and the still imperfect mastery of financial guidelines one faces more often than one would expect.

Created Irill, the Initiative for Research and Innovation in Free Software (see http://www.irill.org) in 2010, and directed this structure since then. Attracted world class researchers to collaborate with Free Software communities in imprving the quality of their code. Organised meetings allowing researchers, community and industry to set up new collaborations. Contributing to advance knowledge on how to teach Free Software in a University.

I created the FOSS Thematic Group of Systematic, set up its governance, with a steering committee and a technical committe bringing together academics and industry, making sure motivated young people, men and women, were onboard.We fostered the emergence of over 30 collaborative projects for more than 100Me of R&D, with over a third of public funding: these projects involved dozens of SMEs, laboratories and industries in the Paris area, with a special focus on technical innovation.

Teaching courses on programming (functional and object oriented), logics, semantics to wonderful students from Ecole Normale Supérieure, in a department led at the time by Michel Broué, a bright mathematician with unique management skills.