François Letellier

Who is François Letellier?

François Letellier, born 1968, is a French proponent of free/open source software as a major means of innovation in the software industry. He served as evangelist and executive director of ObjectWeb in 2003-2006 at INRIA. He worked on the inception of OW2 Consortium, was one of the individual co-founders and serves on the board of directors as elected representative of individuals since then. With several other individuals in the OW2 European Local Chapter, he incepted fOSSa - a conference dedicated to industry/academia collaborations through free/open-source software. François Letellier first introduced the concept of "third generation" of open-source organizations to describe non profits such as the Eclipse Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, ObjectWeb and the like. The concept is similar to that of "OSS 2.0". He speaks extensively of these notions in the press and at public events. F. Letellier also documented the case against software patents in general, and software patents in Europe, in particular. François Letellier works as a freelance consultant on open-source business models, strategy, community building, open innovation.