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 French Institute for Research in Comp ...

with

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

and

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), 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 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Pari ...

and is located on the Jussieu Campus in Paris. Roberto Di Cosmo was the initial director of IRILL, Emmanuel Chailloux is the current director. IRILL aims to provide resources to FLOSS 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 many national agencies and international organizat ...

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 tool 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, provid ...

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

Debian Debian () is a free and open-source software, free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kerne ...

packages was initially developed by IRILL.

References

External links

IRILL website

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