Category: CALIBRE project

Reading “How Open is the Future”

I’ve started reading “How Open is the Future? – Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free and Open Source Software.”, edited by Marleen WYNANTS & Jan CORNELIS, and published by the University Press of VUB (Brussels).

This book groups excellent reference texts from authors that participated the CROSSTALKS seminar last year, explaining the phenomenon of Libre software and similar evolutions in the IT field.

More details about the book here. Note that this book is published under a Creative Commons license and is downloadable… but much easier to read more than 500 pages if you buy it at your preferred bookshop 😉

I’ve not completed my reading (by far), but can only suggest that you read it since I find great pieces in what I’ve already read.

More details on libre software in FP6 Call 5

I’m adding more details on the most interesting aspects of the possible funding of libre software RtD projects in IST FP6 in the forecoming Call 5 (followup to my previous post).

As I said, I think there should be plenty of oportunities for actors in the libre software field to get funding in the fore-coming call 5. Here, I will comment and draw your attention on the documents that were provided at the Info day, since they contain very valuable informations.

The slides The Strategic Objective “Software services” by David Callahan (Deputy Head of the Software Technologies Unit at the Information Society Directorate) state clearly what the Commission is expecting in proposals related to Open Source :

Research into technologies specifically supporting the development, deployment, evolution and benchmarking of open source software. Investigation into the use of open source models for improving software engineering. This investigation should be based on agreed indicators of productivity and quality and result in a measurement of the economic impact of OSS.

(slide 11).

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Report from IST InfoDay on 21 – 22 April 2005

Interesting oportunities for funding from the IST Call 5 for libre software research and development.

I’ve been in Brussels for the Commission infodays on 21 – 22 April 2005, which addressed activity in the field of software (and more specifically, at times, the topic of libre software). There seem to be plenty of oportunities for actors in the libre software field to get funding in the fore-coming call 5.

Here is my report about the worskops on “Key Challenges for Software and Services Research” and the preparation of Call 5. Update: I have a written a more focused post for description of Call 5 oportunities.

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Will visit Brazil to celebrate Official Year of Brazil in France… and participate to WFS2005

2005 is Official Year of Brazil in France … so that’s a very good time for visiting Brazil.

I will probably do so, as I’m going to participate to the 6th International Free Software Forum, which will be held betw. june 1-4, 2005 in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil. I will be part of the technical committee of the WFS2005 – 6th Workshop on Free Software.

Now, all I have to do is start learning portugese / brazilian 😉

UPDATE : I have uploaded the slides of my presentation to the PFTCR project’s page : Integration of libre software for in-house application – Strategy for contributions – Example of the ProGET collaborative work platform for researchers at GET. Read also my report (in french) at : http://olivierberger.com/weblog/index.php/2005/06/03/19-compte-rendu-fisl-60-a-porto-alegre