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Date: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Time: 4:00AM-4:30PM
Place: online
Title: ReachOut Prize Draw 
Speakers: Alexandre Lefebvre (UShareSoft)

The ReachOut H2020 project supports H2020 research projects and European SMEs to develop connections with their markets and early end-users. ReachOut provides a platform and a methodology to help them create and implement beta-testing campaigns, collect user feedback and develop their ecosystem. The feedback collected were most of the time very useful and much appreciated by campaign managers. 

The participating beta testers in one or more ReachOut beta-testing campaigns were offered several recognition and monetary rewards. Two ReachOut test{fest} contests have been organized in 2021. 

Moreover, to express our appreciation for their efforts, this online session proposed an electronic draw  to select one of the 93 beta testers who agreed to provide their contact details, out of a total of the 379 participants. 

The open source Plouf-Plouf software was used during the realtime Lottery Price Draw. This session was recorded, but as names appear during the price draw and for GDPR compliancy, the video is not public. For the same reason, we've used a selection of screenshots below. 

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Date: Friday, December 03, 2021
Time: 9:30AM-10:00AM
Place: online and Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Title: ReachOut the beta-testing campaign platform for research projects
Speakers: Yury Glikman (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Alexandre Lefebvre (UShareSoft), Paula Forbes (Abertay University)
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Developers with basic Android programming skills, please follow the Step-by-Step guide before providing your feedback. To get started, we are providing you a sample APP to build, with source codes in GitHub. It should be built with a recent version of Android Studio, to a minimum Android version of 9.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Date: 23 Nov. 2021
ReachOut representant: Yury Glikman
Attendees: 60 from around 20 digital data projects

This workshop allows ReachOut coordinator to present the ReachOut beta-testing platform and the collaboration of DataVaults with the ReachOut team and services.
As several participating projects are now in Year 2 with prototypes available, they can follow this example and provide a beta-testing campaign during the next weeks.
 

Triple will be one of the dedicated services of OPERAS, the research infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities in the European Research Area. The aim of this campaign is to test the beta platform, pick up any usability issues and improve the platform so that when we release the final version, it will meet the needs of the end-users.
For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

SFScon'21
November 12-13
NOI Techpark, Bolzano, Italy
https://www.sfscon.it

OW2 has been invited to organize a conference track at the 2021 edition of the South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFScon.
As one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software, it promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region.

Several OW2 projects and members will submit presentations there, including the ReachOut project, being showcased by DECODER and FASTEN H2020 projects with their respective active campaigns.

Testers and Developers, please follow the Step-by-Step guide before providing your feedback.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Follow four simple steps and check how a software component is created and displayed in the diagram.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

The current functions allow you to store documents and collaborate simply with complete confidentiality and integrity using public or private clouds. Try them on Windows, Mac and/or Linux.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Developers are invited to test DECODER doc2json software. Try the current functions offered and test them on your own document environment.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Get an overview of the current maritime situation by investigating all the current vessels location and occurred events. Track any vessels that are about to be engaged into illegal activities such as illegal Fishing. Check this new intuitive user interface to monitor and forecast events, and detect possible threats in a maritime environment.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Developers are invited to test Wayeb building, recognition and forecast processes, with a simple integrated dataset, consisting of 100 events. Try it now.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

The Examode project pursues three objectives :

1. Weakly-supervised knowledge discovery for exascale medical data
2. Develop extreme scale analytic tools for heterogeneous exascale multimodal & multimedia data.
3. Healthcare & industry decision-making adoption of extreme-scale analysis & prediction tools

A part of the consortium team from MicroscopeIT and Tooploox in Poland participated in a dedicated ReachOut workshop.
The ReachOut platform was presented while the Examode team provided details about their use cases, campaign requirements and targeted histopathologists beta-testers.

• Examode open dataset
• Examode open source software

Date: 21/04/2021 16:00 CEST
Topic:  Leverage your project consortium and ecosystem of partners to recruit beta testers
Duration: 1 hour 

This webinar presents the basics to start using the ReachOut platform and create your own Beta-testing campaign (create your account, create your campaign, tune the feedback questionnaire, use the campaign monitoring and reporting dashboard). it provides a special focus and some tips on how to leverage your project consortium and ecosystem of partners to find beta-testers.

JmlGen generates JML annotations from what can be guessed out of a java project: the result, a JML-annotated project, can then be processed by JML tools, like the OpenJml program verification tool. Check the current functions offered and try them on your own java software.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Explore new software, earn recognition and some money.

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As potential users of the DataVaults platform, citizens can fill the questionnaire to share their view about personal data. This will help DataVaults designers exploring citizens perspective, expectations, needs and concerns about encrypted and secure personal data sharing. 

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Try this new call graph generator, an outcome of the FASTEN project to contribute in the next intelligent software package management platform introducing a fine-grained, method-level, tracking of dependencies on top of existing dependency management networks. 

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Date: 16/3/2021 - 14:00
Online workshop

Seven Morphemic project partners attended the ReachOut workshop.
Interactions with the ReachOut team allowed them to evaluate the potential benefits of the beta testing platform for their respective use cases.

Date: 15/3/2021 - 13:00
Online workshop

Participants from the Digifed cascade funding project, and Minalogic cluster interact with the ReachOut team to explore synergies and optimal usage of the ReachOut Beta Center. 

Minalogic is a cluster which brings together companies and their partners to develop digital technologies on twelve application markets. The supported technologies fit into four strategic fields: micro/nanoelectronics, photonics, software, content & uses. More about Minalogic

This meeting provided a chance to contact more European innovative organisations and research projects through the Smart Anything Everywhere project and the Smart for Europe 2 Support Action

Try this use case of the EU project ARTICONF and provide your feedback on testing the first features of the Web App. 

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

Date: 24/02/2021
Topic: Producing a properly packaged software easy to access and deploy
Duration: 1 hour 

In this webinar, three participants from the Curex project learned the basics to start using the ReachOut platform and create their own Beta-testing campaign ; create an account, create a campaign, tune the feedback questionnaire, use the campaign monitoring and reporting dashboard. We also gave a special focus on software packaging, to make beta software easy to access, to deploy and to test by beta testers. We took this opportunity to answer questions about launching beta-testing campaigns for each cybersecurity tools they are designing for the health sector. 

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We are pleased to share with you this quick ReachOut Alert about our recent activities and next interaction opportunities:

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The ReachOut project team is participating in FOSDEM 2021, an online-only edition this year. OW2 Management Office team members and project members remain available throughout the weekend to answer questions from connected decision makers, IT professionals and open source developers.

The ReachOut platform presents beta-testing campaigns of innovative software and rewards participating beta testers.

• Read the ReachOut at Fosdem 2021 Press Release
• Please, join the OW2 virtual booth at your convenience, from home. No registration required.

Date: 29 Jan. 2021, Online

The DAPSI cascade funding project invited the ReachOut team during their final Phase 1 round to present the ReachOut Beta Center during a keynote speech.
Seven project teams were participating. Thanks to regular contacts established since then, we hope to register selected innovator beta releases during the upcoming months. 

Date: 27/01/2021
Topic: How to build an efficient and attractive testing scenario?
Duration: 1 hour 

This webinar presents the basics to start using the ReachOut platform and create a beta-testing campaign - create an account, create a campaign, tune the feedback questionnaire, use the campaign monitoring and reporting dashboard. Participants are also discovering several tips to build an effective and attractive testing scenario. 

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We are pleased to share with you this quick ReachOut Alert on the project’s latest activities

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Open Research Webinars is a new webinar series launched by OW2 and the Eclipse Foundation. The aim is to introduce european software research projects that help shape the future of open source software and the IT industry. The webinars will focus on international partners leveraging open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs.

Find more about Open Research Webinars: https://opensourceinnovation.eu/

ReachOut was presented in the series launch on December 15, at 16:00 CET. 

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ReachOut is presented during this webinar organized by Ledger project. 

Date: December 9 at 3:00PM.
Place: Online

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Discover the latest ReachOut campaigns and next events

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Try this new software to generate realistic artificial data and enable safe data sharing between companies.
Using a new trend in Machine Learning, it creates a dataset that’s fully synthetic, i.e. does not contain data of real people or entities, but yields the same results upon statistical analysis. Because it does not contain real data, it is privacy-preserving and GDPR compliant.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

This campaign aims at getting content in the form of new architectural big data/AI blueprints mapped to the BDV reference model and the DataBench pipeline/blueprint. In this campaign, the beta testers are advanced users that would like to contribute with practical examples of mapping their architectures to the generic blueprints.

Testers should study the available DataBench information and guidelines. Then using the provided steps testers should prepare their own mappings, resulting diagrams and explanations, if any. The Toolbox provides a web form interface to upload all relevant materials that will be later assessed by an editorial board in DataBench before the final publication in the Toolbox.

For more instructions, please read the full beta-testing campaign

This campaign targets Micro enterprises and SMEs to adopt and be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Thanks to aims to the SMOOTH project, they can implement easy-to-use and affordable tools to generate awareness on their GDPR obligations and analysing their level of compliance with this data protection regulation.

The Entry Questionnaire automatically generates a Compliance Report that provides a series of recommendations to improve your company’s compliance with the GDPR. Check more about the initiatives and give the Smooth platform a try.

For more instructions, please read the campaign instructions

OW2 has been invited by SFScon 2020 to organize an OW2 presentation track.  ReachOut will be presented in this framework, along with other EU-funded projects and OW2 Good governance and Market Readiness initiatives.

Find more about the agenda of the OW2 track at SFScon: https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/SFScon_2020

About SFScon
The South Tyrol Free Software Conference, SFScon, is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. SFScon promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.
The conference will be held on November 13th and 14th 2020 at NOI Techpark in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.
SFScon 2020 will definitely take place, and if conditions make it necessary, il will move to a virtual event.

Participation is free of charge and registration is available on the events website: https://www.sfscon.it

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Evaluate the Crowd Journalism platform on your mobile phone or from any terminal with a web browser, without downloading any app. Then, answer to the feedback questionnaire. 

Based on a blockchain infrastructure, the Crowd Journalism platform ensures anonymity, secure and immutable transactions.

With this first version, you will be able to evaluate both its mobile crowd streaming application, and the Multiviewer/Classifier/Editor.

These outcomes of the Articonf H2020 Project provide a new set of trustworthy, resilient, and globally sustainable decentralised social media services.

We are pleased to share with you this quick ReachOut Alert on the project’s latest activities
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The GeoTriples Spark campaign aims to check if the program can handle any given term map. Feel free to try and execute the project with different term maps, to check how it handles them.

Try the GeoTriples Spark beta release, an extended version of GeoTriples capable of transforming big geospatial data into RDF graphs. To enable the transformation of big geospatial data, GeoTriples has been extended to run on top of Apache Spark and Hadoop or Hops (a new distribution of Apache Hadoop developed by KTH, RISE SICS, and Logical Clocks AB). 

GeoTriples-Spark can run in a standalone machine or in a Hadoop based cluster, but it is more efficient when it runs on Hops as it is a write-intensive application.

Publishing geospatial data as Linked Open Geospatial Data

GeoTriples generates and processes extended R2RML and RML mappings that transform geospatial data from many input formats into RDF.

ReachOut presented by Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, at NGI Pointer online kick-off.

NGI-POINTER aims to find ambitious NGI (Next Generation Internet) architects to change the underlying fabric of the internet and the web, by supporting promising bottom-up projects that are able to build, on top of state-of-the-art research, scalable protocols and tools to assist in the practical transition or migration to new or updated technologies, whilst keeping European Values at the core. The project started in January 2020 and will end in December 2022. 

For more information, please visit: https://www.ngi.eu/
Or contact: Mirko Presser, Aarhus University
Associate Professor, PhD, MSc, MSci
Deputy Director of Research in the Centre for Digital Business Development, Mirko Presser coordinates NGI Pointer.

Following a collaborative consumption trend, existing car owners can rent their cars to other people for a short period of time. This use case allows Android mobile phone users to rent a vehicle temporarily on-demand at a variable fee depending on the distance travelled or usage.

Beta-testers can act as a driver or as a passenger. The driver is a person who wants to rent a car and drive it for a short period of time from one point to another. The passenger is a person who wants to share a car with other people (at least with a driver) for a short period of time from one point to another.

For more instructions, please read both Car sharing beta-testing campaigns

Try the IoF2020 Beverage Integrity Tracking system, an IoT based solution to monitor the transport conditions and to open a direct channel from the producer to the retailer.

Testers should sell wine to retailers over the summer/beginning of autumn period.

B.I.T  uses Internet of Things technologies to obtain data on shipping conditions and on final client satisfaction, allowing beverage producers to exactly know if, when and where accidents occur during transportation (excess heating, low temperatures), and to receive feedbacks from final retailers (comments and/or complaints from wine shops & restaurant clients).

Image source: Dransy (Nectar delivery)

Date: Sept 23, at 4:00 PM

In this webinar, you will learn the basics to start using the ReachOut platform and create your own beta-testing campaign. This webinar will also give a special focus on early user recruitment, a critical aspect of the campaign success. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

Recorded previous webinar sessions are available in Tutorials. 

Check out the recent open campaigns, next webinars and more ReachOut news
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Cross-CPP integrated Final Prototype of AGORA Data Marketplace offers a privacy and secure platform to trade-off (buy and sell) Vehicles and Building datasets. 

The objective of this campaign is to get feedback from the User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) of the frontend application. We would provide detailed instructions to follow the processes from 

1. Service Provider (Digital Company, Data-driven startup, etc.) to create "Data Requests" or 
2. Data Owner to accept these "Request" and transform into Offers and Contracts.

On Wednesday 24 June, Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, joined a networking session organized by NGI Ledger and BluMorpho with speakers from FundingBox, Blockwall Capital Fund, and the B-Hub supporting Blockchain companies. He had the opportunity to present the ReachOut platform to 16 SME decision makers.

The Impact Week is a digital week where participants create their own programme to connect, exchange and build through positive impact. They can join digitally and get to know impact leaders, investors and makers that have been working on new and sustainable solutions to address challenges of today and tomorrow.

Check out the Impact Week Programme. 

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Get insights on best practices and tools for user acceptance testing of digital solutions by the EU projects IoF2020 & ReachOut. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

User Acceptance Testing (UAT), also known as End-User Testing or Beta testing, is crucial to receive early feedback on usability and relevance of features from your future end-users and to discover, record and correct any defects at an early stage. Basically, it’s the closest thing to a real-world test.

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Visit: OW2Online'20 website

OW2con'20, the open source annual conference of OW2 goes online, with one day of online presentations on June 17 and 1/2 day of break-out sessions on June 18. 

The ReachOut project is presented by Alexandre Lefebvre, from UShareSoft.
Check out the OW2online'20 conference program for more information about the talks and sessions organized this year.

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Webinar #5 Produce a properly packaged software easy to access and deploy

Date: May 27, at 4:00 PM

In this webinar, you will learn the basics to start using the ReachOut platform and create your own beta-testing campaign. This webinar will also give a special focus on the software packaging, and how important it is to make the software package easy-to-test by beta testers. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

Recorded previous webinar sessions are available in Tutorials. 

Webinar #4 How to build an efficient and attractive testing scenario?

In this webinar, you will learn how to register your project and beta-testing campaign in ReachOut. We will give a special focus on the testing scenario and provide you with some useful tips to improve your scenario. 

To attend this webinar, please register here. 

Recorded previous webinar sessions are available in Tutorials. 

Webinar #3: ReachOut questionnaire tips to maximize feedback from beta testers
Date: March 25, at 4:00 PM
Duration: 30 hour(s), 0 minute(s)
In this webinar, you will learn how to create an account, register your project and your beta-testing campaign, then how to align your feedback questionnaire with your testing scenario, how to use the campaign monitoring, and how to use the reporting dashboard. Also, in this webinar we will focus on tips when tuning the feedback questionnaire, in order to maximize feedback from beta testers. 

To attend this webinar, please register here.

Recorded sessions are available in Tutorials

Webinar #2: How to run a successful campaign using the ReachOut dashboard
Date: February 25, at 4:00 PM
Duration: 33 hour(s)
In this webinar, you will learn how to register your project and beta-testing campaign in ReachOut ; how to tune the feedback questionnaire, monitor, and report a successful campaign through their dedicated dashboard. 

To attend this webinar, please register here.

Recorded sessions are available in Tutorials

FOSDEM
Date: February 1-2, 2020
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
https://fosdem.org/2020/

ReachOut is presented at FOSDEM 2020 on the OW2 booth. 

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

Date: 16/1/2020
Time: 4:00PM to 4:30PM

In this brief webinar, you will learn how ReachOut can help you, how to create an account, register your project and create a first beta-testing campaign. Also, you will discover how to use the questionnaire template for beta testers, then how to launch and monitor your campaign. 

To attend this webinar, please register here.

Recorded sessions are available in Tutorials

Paris Open Source Summit
Date: December 10-11, 2019
Venue: Dock Pullman
87 Avenue des Magasins Généraux, 93300 Aubervilliers
Visit: https://www.opensourcesummit.paris/

The ReachOut Project will be showcased at OW2 booth during Paris Open Source Summit, Europe's premier event on open source, free software and open innovation. International conference summit, business fair and community event, OSS Paris highlights the driving role of open source technologies in current and future digital transformations. The Collaborative Innovation session organized by OW2 will illustrate how multinational partners leverage open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs. It will include a presentation of several H2020 projects involving the community, including the ReachOut Project.

Event: 20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Date: November 27 to 29, 2019
Place: Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Registration: https://profes2019.upc.edu/registration/

ReachOut: A beta-testing platform for research projects
Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, will present the H2020 ReachOut Project at PROFES 2019 in the European Project Space at 8:45 on November, 27, 2019.
With contributions from Alexandre Lefebvre (UShareSoft) and Yuri Glickman (Fraunhofer FOKUS).

Check out the Profes'19 pictures and presentations

EclipseCon Europe 2019
Date: October 21-24
Place: Ludwigsburg, Germany

The ReachOut Project will be presented by Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO,
at EclipseCon Europe 2019, October 21-24 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. 

In the Research area of this event, two EU-funded H2020 projects will be introduced by OW2:
- STAMP
- ReachOut

For more information about EclipseCon Europe, please visit: https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2019/

Event: 2nd Hamburg Requirements Engineering Symposium
Date: 4 September 2019
Place: iteratec GmbH - Am Sandtorkai 76 - 20457 Hamburg 

Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, introduced the beta-testing campaigns using ReachOut to the OpenReq project participants, at the 2nd Hamburg Requirements Engineering Symposium organized in the framework of the OpenReq Week. This opportunity was the starting point of a fruitfull collaboration between both projects. 

Check out the pictures of the meeting

OW2con'19
Date: 12-13 June 2019
Place: Orange Gardens, Paris Châtillon
Registration: https://www.ow2con.org

During the OW2 open source community annual conference, the ReachOut project is represented by the OW2 team, in parallel with three of the first European projects starting a beta testing campaign using ReachOut:

• CROSSMINER: Integrating and Deploying Heterogeneous Legacy Components Inspired On A Microservice Architecture, a talk by Amin Boudeffa (Softeam)
• MELODIC, Multicloud Optimization And Cloud Agnostic Deployment Platform, a keynote speech by Konrad Wawruch (7bulls.com)
• STAMP test automation for Continuous Integration, a talk by Caroline Landry (Inria)

More about the program and free registration: https://www.ow2con.org

The ReachOut project kick-off meeting took place on January 10-11, 2019
The two-day meeting was hosted by project partner UShareSoft in Grenoble, France.