Carlo Daffara is CTO of NodeWeaver; part of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes (IJOSSP) and member of the technical board of the two regional Open Source competence centers of the FSFE European Legal Network. Worked in SC34 and JTC1 committees in the Italian branch of ISO, UNINFO; worked in the ISOC Public Software working group, Italian representative at the European Working Group on Libre Software, He chaired the SME working group of the EU Task Force on Competitiveness, and the IEEE open source middleware WG of the Technical Committee on Scalable Computing. EU project reviewer, principal investigator in 9 EU projects.