
Yury Glikman reelected as a member of the OW2 Directors Board
News from Mar. 25, 2021
OW2 is an independent, global, open-source software community. The mission of OW2 is to promote the development of open-source enterprise software, generic business applications, cloud computing platforms and foster a vibrant community and business ecosystem. Dr. Yury Glikman, deputy head of the Digital Public Services department at Fraunhofer FOKUS, was reelected as a member of the OW2 Directors Board.
At Fraunhofer FOKUS, Glikman works on the topics of data management and sharing platforms for public sectory and industry. Regarding his goals for the next term, Dr. Yury Glikman says: “I am very happy about the trust in my person and that I can help shaping the future of OW2. Looking back over the past years, OW2 can be proud of its successful development. We want to continue on this course. The importance of open source enterprise software is growing. We offer companies and individual developers technical infrastructure, project hosting, marketing services and a range of services to improve the quality of the software and make collaboration easier.“
With its rich business ecosystem of some 100 projects backed by more than 5,000 enthusiastic supporters, OW2 belongs to the most important Open Source communities worldwide. In addition to networking the open source community, the aim of the organisation is the development of open source middleware, general business applications and the further development of cloud computing platforms.