The Innovation and research initiative for free software (, IRILL) is a French research center. This centre was created in September 2010 by

INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...

with

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

and

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...

and is located on the

Jussieu Campus The Jussieu Campus (''Campus Universitaire de Jussieu'') is a higher education campus located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the main campus of the Faculty of Science of Sorbonne University. Paris-VII University (now merged ...

in Paris.

Roberto Di Cosmo Roberto Di Cosmo is an italian computer scientist and director of IRILL, the Innovation and research initiative for free software (). He graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and obtained a PhD from the University of Pisa, before b ...

was the initial director of IRILL, Emmanuel Chailloux is the current director. IRILL aims to provide resources to

FLOSS Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...

actors like researchers, developers or industrials. It will also help

technology transfer Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...

toward

small and medium enterprises Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by international organizations such as the World Bank ...

and improves the way FLOSS developments are currently taught. Three projects are hosted by IRILL at time of its creation: * MANCOOSI (''MANaging the COmplexity of the Open Source Infrastructure'') *

Coccinelle (software) Coccinelle ( French for ''ladybug'') is an open-source utility for matching and transforming the source code of programs written in the C programming language. Utility Coccinelle was initially used to aid the evolution of the Linux kernel, pr ...

- a

framework A framework is a generic term commonly referring to an essential supporting structure which other things are built on top of. Framework may refer to: Computing * Application framework, used to implement the structure of an application for an op ...

for refactoring of C source code * Ocsigen/Eliom The Debsources (sources.debian.net) project to index source code from all

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...

packages was initially developed by IRILL.

References

External links

IRILL website

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