I will go to OSS2005 in Genova (Italy), between 11th and 15th of July, to participate to OSS2005, and present our paper “Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?“, which describes our past efforts on the development of the in-house ProGET platform.
Abstract :
Free or open source software are common tools that everybody can use and customise at its convenience to create in-house applications. Using and customising free software is not sufficient to ensure that this in-house application will be maintainable at mid or long term. This paper draws lessons from our in-house project, the development of a groupware Web platform for researchers, to help defining a policy through which efficient contributions can be made to open source software so that the in-house projects may remain viable.
The program of the conference is available on-line, and looks promising.
UPDATE : The list of accepted papers (and abstracts) is available on-line.