myMed is either i) a SDK to build social network applications running on iOS and Android mobile device but also on a Web browser; ii) a Cloud of 50 PCs quad core Intel 1+1 TB HD (RAID virtualisation to improve resilience and redundancy), Hewlett Packard 400, installed in the Alcotra European Interregion, Municipalities, Consulates, Associations,
Chambers of Commerce, etc. each of one usable, in a completely secure way, either as a simple PC, with usual built-in open source tools like Firefox, Open Office, etc, but also as a Apache Cassandra noSQL node to store the data of all the myMed applications; iii) a myMed Ubuntu Edition, customisation of the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, allowing to easily install and keep for free, under request, one the 50 PCs in the Alcotra Euro-region [Italy : Région Autonome Vallée d’Aoste, Provinces de Turin et Cuneo (Région Piémont), Province d’Imperia (Région Ligurie). France : Départements de Haute-Savoie et Savoie (Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes) et Départements des Hautes-Alpes, Alpes de Haute-Provence et Alpes-Maritimes (Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur)] and use it both as an ordinary PC (often installed in the entrance hall or in offices, but also as a noSQL Cassandra node, and finally iv) a dozens of mobile (Android and iOS) and Web myMed applications, whose specifications where democratically designed with the help of the potential real customers. As examples of implemented experimental apps: 1) myConsolato, written with the Italian Consulate of Nice M. Luciano Barillaro, 2) myEurope, written with M. Gaston Franco deputy UMP, 3) myBenevolat, written with the Association Nice Benevolat in Nice, 4) myRiviera, written with the CARF, Communauté Agglomeration Riviera Française de Menton, 5) myEurocin, written with the Chambres de commerce de Nice-Cuneo-Imperia-GEIE Eurocin, 6) myStudent, written with colleagues of University of Nice and Politecnico di Torino participating to the programme, 7) myAlzhaimer, written by myself with the help of a patient suffering from the disease, 8) myCarPooling, written with the help of some Italians expats working in companies located in Sophia-Antipolis and directly inspired to my previous research on CarPal: a practical application of the Synapse overlay network implementation, 9) myFSA, written hands-in-hands with the Senateur Pierre Laffitte, Fondation Sophia Antipolis. To my knowledge, myMed was the first SDK to conceive, build and host Social Networks in a Time to Market considerably faster than other products [At that time the most performant competitor were Phonegap, now called Apache Cordova, that covered only the frontend part and not the hosting nor the data-base memorising datas, as myMed did]. The implementation languages employed were Java (30K lines), Javascript (2K lines), PhP (10K lines), some Perl, and Unix script. The number of lines of Objective-C for iOS mobile applications has not been counted. I was the PI of the UE project, the main inventor of the myMed framework, the only functional analyst to set up the use cases, but also of one the main designer (with L. Vanni and M. Casagrande) of the general SW and HW architecture and IHM. I also managed 20 Software Engineers (9 of them located in Sophia), in the whole consortium (INRIA, Politecnico of Turin, University of Turin, University of Alessandria). We used successfully the SCRUM methodology. In 2012, the Inria D2T et DDT Inria evaluated the myMed team and the myMed software. myMed is an Apache-V2.0 software. See also myMed in a nutshell.

Summarising impact. At the end of the project, almost all the PC’s were left to the sites they were installed: they worked in “dual mode” for day-life usage and for helping the experimentation of the myMed platform, built over the LogNet Inria Team researches. Some of them were still responding to a Linux "PING" in 2020. The large scale deployment and stress- testing fully validates our decentralised infrastructure; the “focus test” on a small group of persons using mobile and web applications give us precious informations about how improve bugs and IHM.

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Resources

• http://www.mymed.fr

• http://mymed.fr/?action=login (ask for server reactivation)

• http://www-sop.inria.fr/mymed/

• https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00909658 (Final report)

• https://goo.gl/aod5Pi (core revue, press/images, videos)