Dear Morfeo’s members:

Next Wednesday, February 24th Morfeo is going to meet with SMEs at INTECO. During this session, organized jointly with INTECO and AETICAL, the Federation of SMEs of Information, Communication and Electronic Technologies of Castilla León, it will be presented some interesting results:

• 16:50 - 17:00 Opening Session.
• 17:00 - 17:20 OSS Quality Guidelines. (Pablo del Pozo/CESLCAM)
• 17:20 - 17:40 Economic impact for SMEs of OSS Spanish legal framework (Andrés L. Martínez/TID):
  • Law 11/2007 Electronic Access to Public Services of Citizens.
  • Law 56/2007 Actions for Information Society Fostering.
  • Law 03/2010 Spanish Security Schema.
  • Law 04/2010 Spanish Interoperability Schema.
• 17:40 - 18:00 Economic Impact for SMEs of Cloud Technologies. (Luis Miguel Vaquero/TID):
• 18:00 - 18:20 QualiPSo Spanish Competence Centre (Pedro Coca / URJC)
• 18:20 - 18:40 Morfeo Formación (Andrés L. Martínez/TID)
• 18:40 - 19:00 Q&A.

I hope to see you there.

In this edition, Morfeo Assembly contains new sessions that will make of it a great event. From now on these new sessions will be presented on this blog. Today I will present the session “R&D network”.

The session “R&D network” aims to foster the R&D collaboration between Morfeo’s member. To do this, during the “R&D network” session our members will present in 5 minutes their proposal of R&D project.

If you have any idea and you want to make it with the collaboration of other members, Morfeo will give you the opportunity to share it in the Assembly. Just sent an email to almo[at]tid[dot]es.

Open Source World Conference 2009 is going to be next December (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd) in Caceres. As part of OSS fostering activities CENATIC and Extremadura Regional Government have created Territorio Empresas which is a contest for SME’s.

If you are a SME, you have the opportunity to get a special stand within the conference stands area. Let us see you products and services and get a stand to show your company to the world.

You can find more information right here(Spanish).

Location: World Trade Center, Grenoble, France Date: Nov 17, 2009 and Nov 18, 2009

The history of FOSS can be traced back to academic origins: distributing source code under a permissive license was the de facto rule in academia in the 70’s. Since then, FOSS became a wide spread paradigm throughout the software industry, and its alignment with academic goals tended to be forgotten. 

The fOSSa (Free/Open Source Software Academia) Conference is mainly focused on academia and research centres needs but it’s open to industry as well, since in many cases academia needs industrials and vice versa. The conference reviews Open Source fundamentals (Business models, licenses, collaboration, communities, promotion, exploitation, sustainability, european projects) and presents innovating Open Source projects as well as communities experiences.

Confirmed speakers include Clement Escoffier (Apache Community), Ralph Mueller (Director of Eclipse Foundation Europe), HP Fossology, INRIA (Luc Grateau and Jean Bernard Stefani), Arnaud Laprévote (Director R&D Mandriva), Roberto Di Cosmo, and many more.

The fOSSa Conference (where Open Source meets Academia) is co-organised by INRIA and OW2 Europe Local Chapter and takes place in the World Trade Center building in Grenoble, France (Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Grenoble) on 17th and 18th November 2009. 

Registration is free. Details about the Conference is available http://www.ow2.org/fossaconference