FOSS Backstage 2026

Florent Zara

Florent has been involved (both personally and professionally) in the FLOSS community since 1999. Professionally, Florent has worked for nearly 20 years in a consulting company as a Open Source advisor for large companies, helping them with software quality, Open Source governance, licensing, Innersource, as well as change management. Today, as Open Source Services Team Lead, he's helping (new) Eclipse members and projects better understand, manage and master Open Source. He's also an active participant in the OSPO Alliance and the Good Governance Initiative. On his personal side, he's an administrator and board member at LinuxFr.org (reference french-speaking, community driven website about Free and Open Source software).


Company/organization you are affiliated with::

Eclipse Foundation (working for Michelin)


Sessions

03-16
16:40
30min
From Tires to Code: Building Michelin's OSPO
Florent Zara, Julien Millau

Michelin, a 136-year-old industrial giant, is building its open source culture. This talk is a feedback from our OSPO, detailing our strategy, governance, and change management programs. We'll share our progress and achievements, our key lessons, and the significant challenges still ahead on our journey.

Governance & Community
Auditorium
03-16
17:35
5min
Training-as-Code: Scaling Open Source Literacy
Florent Zara

Shared educational efforts need more than static files; they require a scalable, community-driven approach. This talk introduces Eclipse OSILK, a "Training-as-Code" project using AsciiDoc for modular, maintainable training. It enables organizations to tailor content easily while keeping it as evergreen as the software itself.

Auditorium