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Reactivating CoopX : Idea of a project towards interoperable software development hosting platforms

CoopX … that name doesn’t remind you of anything ? …

Well, it’s the name of an old project, started in 2001, whose goal was to try and gather people working on different software development hosting platforms in order to elaborate a standard for interoperability between these platforms.

AFAIK, some progress was made but the project did not deliver anything really useful that could be integrated into the existing platforms. Everybody involved was quite busy elsewhere and the project, only based on volunteer contribution stalled for a while… until its website (http://coopx.eu.org) eventually became unavailable (in the meantime a crash of the tuxfamily platform occurred, which didn’t help… but the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine hopfully have saved a copy… although it’s not responding at the time of writing – Update : finally working, so here is the link.).

This kind of idea is still something that might be worth investigating… and who knows, maybe this time, it would be possible to draw enough support to work in way so that existing platforms really benefit from that work.

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Presentation at OSS2005 on 13 July 2005

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.

Mise en ligne essai syndication news des progets de recherche GET : Planet ProGET

J’ai mis en ligne Planet ProGET, un essai de syndication des nouvelles des projets de recherche GET.

Ce n’est qu’un test pour l’instant… les nouvelles ne sont donc � prendre que comme des tests, et non quelque chose d’officiel pour le GET 😉

Agata reports : promising reporting software

Agata reports looks like a very impressing tool to do reports on relational databases. It uses both a GTK GUI and a Web interface, which makes it a good candidate for very broad use.

We’re testing it in order to provide some reporting facilities in ProGET.

(fr) Soumission papier � OSS2005 accept�e

Nous avons soumis une version pr�liminaire d’un papier � la conf OSS2005 intitul� “Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?“, qui a �t� accept�. La conf OSS2005 aura lieu en juillet 2005 � G�nes, Italie. Le papier retrace notre exp�rience concernant l’int�gration de logiciels libres dans une plate-forme � usage interne, au cours du d�veloppement de la plate-forme ProGET, et les enseignements que nous pouvons en tirer.