Category: CALIBRE project

Free maps of … the world ? … uh, Genova

I’m a contributor to the UPCT project whose goal is to produce free geographical data, aka free maps of the world.

I try to collect GPS data whenever I travel, and so did I for my recent trip to Genova to attend OSS2005. I’ve been able to record a track of the flight between Paris and Genova (above Mt Blanc : nice view… too bas I didn’t take a GPS point… nor did I make a picture) and of my wanderings in Genova city.

UPCT is a very interesting project, which may be in the future something as interesting as wikipedia… who knows…

If you are interested in finding out about UPCT, you may have difficulties in finding elements in English, but at least you will find a description in this article.

Slides of Open Educational Symposium at OSS2005

I’ve collected slides from the speakers of the Open Educational Symposium at OSS2005… Update : They have been added to the page on the conference’s site, but are still available at : http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/~olberger/OpenEducationalSymposium/OpenEducationalSymposium.html. A report from this symposium will come later.

Slides of our paper at OSS2005

I’m back from OSS2005 in Genova (more detailed report to come), where I’ve presented our paper “Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?”. Here are the slides I’ve presented in the 15 minutes slot (too short ;). For a longer version, you may have a look at the presentation made at FISL 6. Or of course, you can also read our paper 😉

Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?

In the paper titled “Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?” (which is now available online), to be published in the forecoming proceedings of the OSS2005 conference (Genova, Italy, 11-15 july 2005), we draw from our experience on the projects PicoLibre and ProGET, to explain how in-house applications can be built around existing high level libre software programs. We also describe the issue of long-term maintenance of such in-house platforms, and we propose a strategy for contributions to external libre projects, in order to help solve the maintenance issue.

Feel free to comment on this paper in this post.

Update : the full proceedings of the conference have been put on-line. Check the details from http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/