We're excited to welcome Pierre-Yves Gibello to We Make Commons — a veteran of European open source infrastructure and Director of one of the continent's longest-running open source consortiums.
Steering OW2
As Director of OW2, Pierre-Yves leads a community and consortium dedicated to open source middleware and infrastructure software built collaboratively across companies, research institutions, and public bodies. OW2 has spent nearly two decades proving that competitors and public actors can co-develop shared technical infrastructure instead of duplicating it behind closed doors.
A career built on collaborative infrastructure
Long before "digital commons" was common vocabulary, Pierre-Yves was working on the practical governance questions that make shared open source projects durable: how do you get organizations with different incentives to co-maintain the same codebase? How do you keep a consortium technically relevant as ecosystems shift from middleware to cloud to AI infrastructure? OW2's longevity is itself an answer.
Why this matters for We Make Commons
Pierre-Yves brings hard-won expertise in exactly the kind of multi-stakeholder governance that digital commons need to survive past their first enthusiastic contributors. That's precisely the kind of infrastructure thinking We Make Commons wants to champion.
Welcome to We Make Commons, Pierre-Yves. Glad to have you.