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Date: 24-25 September 2025
Venue: HAW, Hamburg, Germany
Website: https://searchenginesandsociety.net/

Inaugural Conference of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON 2025)

On behalf of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON), we invite you to attend the inaugural conference of the network, to be held at HAW Hamburg, Germany, 24th – 25th September 2025.

SEASON is an annual conference that explores the multifaceted role of search engines in today's culture and society. SEASON brings together researchers from different fields and fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration to deepen our understanding of search engines as cultural, societal, and technical artefacts, as well as how they are used in various practices.

PeARS OnMyDisk Project showcased

Aurelie Herbelot will give a presentation of PeARS-OnMyDisk project:
"Decentralizing Web Search: the PeARS search engine".

• Full programme, conditions and registration are detailed online: https://searchenginesandsociety.net/

Date: 17/9/2025 10:00 CEST
Place: Online

Co-organized with NLnet and NGI Zero, this community workshop is designed for NGI beneficiaries, Open Web Search enthusiasts and anyone interested in joining the innovative open source communities.

More details and registration: https://nlnet.nl/workshops/

Now available, the Fediverse Search and Discovery Provider–– ‘Fediscoverer’ –– allows Fediverse servers to share publicly discoverable accounts and content to improve search and discovery on individual servers. In line with the decentralised and federated nature of the network, Fediverse platforms like Mastodon have thus made this type of ‘search and discovery’ opt-in and propose a way to publish this information.

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Date: 26 June at 13:00 CEST
Place: Online
Registration: https://www.ow2.org/view/webinar/NGI0_Business_Circle_1

Register for the free Business Circle webinar offered by APELL - Association Professionnelle Européenne du Logiciel Libre, and OW2.
You'll discover a new set of NGI Zero services for your European open source projects to improve software maturity, compliance, governance and resilience (CRA).

Date: 25-27 June 2025
Venue: IUT, Av. Paul Langevin, 59653 Villeneuve-d'Ascq Lille, France
Website: https://www.dcai-conference.net/

NGI Search is participating at the International Conference on June 25-27, in Lille during a Special Session showcasing NGI Search achievements in an academic environment. The registration price is in the range of 400-500 Euros, and the submissions consist on papers of approximately 7-8 pages (max 10). We will have a special session to present and discuss the papers.

Stay tuned for papers submited and accepted.

Date: 17-18 June 2025
Venue: Paris, Châtillon, Orange Gardens
Number of expected attendees: 250+
Website: OW2con'25  

The annual conference of OW2 is an international meeting of developers, IT companies, academics and non-profit organizations, bringing together the OSS community during two days of presentations ranging from tech topics to business and ethical issues of open source.

A break-out session dedicated to NGI (Next Generation Internet) project outcomes is scheduled on 18 June in the morning, followed by the NGI Innovators Meetup, organised by FoundingBox.
We're looking forward to see you there. 

📣 Discover the OW2con'25 program now.
🌏 Remote Connexion (password required): Ask your meeting link by June 17

🎬 Video replay and Photos. 

Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:15 CEST
Link: https://bbb.rlp.net/rooms/vbe-k7s-vl1-6xi
Access: Ask for your key now

NGI Search and the Open Web Search community are coorganizing this Update webinar with presentations from:

• Michael Granitzer, Open Web Search
• Mario Carrera, Scolab 
• Cedric Ulmer, Neural Datafari
• tbc

Date: Tuesday 13 May 2025 from 18:00 to 22:00
Place: INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Co-organizers: Telecom Valley, OW2, CNLL

The French Riviera event 'Nuit des Acteurs du Numérique Azuréens' returns to Inria in Sophia-Antipolis on Tuesday 13 May 2025.
This year, the world of Open Source, the driving force behind global innovation and OSS business models is debated.
Programme, registrations, presentations and photos are posted here: https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/NANA25