Last Thursday, the community’s members met at the Escuela de Organización Industrial of Madrid and we had there our II Assembly. At last more than 50 people coming from 30 different organization attended the Assembly. You can see some different moments of the meeting in the following photos.

As main conclusions we have to foster the following issues during 2009:

• Community processes and communications: to clarify and to concrete our processes, improving inter and intra community communications. Andrés L. Martínez (Telefónica I+D) and Roberto Santos (Telefónica) will be in charge of this.
• Morfeo Manifesto: to coordinate a team to write our own manifesto. Clara Pezuela (Atos Origin) will be in charge of this.
• Morfeo Network development in LATAM: increase our activity and collaborations in LATAM. Marcelo Branço (Morfeo Brazil) will be in charge of this.
• Economic analysis of Morfeo Community: to define an economic model of Morfeo Project, obtaining valuable data for business schools. Carmen de Pablos (URJC/OpenInnova) will be in charge of this.
• Think tank blog promotion: to incorporate multi blogging tools, to promote excellence contents and members participation.

I hope all of these goals will be obtained during 2009.At last, but not least, I would like to thanks to many people: to the EOI guys (Leila, Felisa, Carlos and Luis) , to Cristina and Álvaro from Telefónica I+D,  to all the participants and, of course, to every Morfeo members and also to these which will become member soon.

Next Thursday, on 26th March 2009 it takes place in Madrid the II Morfeo general assembly composed of all the Community members.

The Morfeo’s General Assembly is the highest representative organisation inside the Community. It deals with the evaluation of all the activities in the Morfeo’s Community. It is the responsible for approve the annual Activity Report and the Morfeo’s Strategy Plan, both of them presented by the Manager Committee.

In the assembly will take place the presentation of the Community main results during 2008: new projects, project results and new members. In this way, during the event it will be defined the collaboration strategies for this year, some initiatives such as Open Marketplace Morfeo project and Formation Morfeo and also the Iberoamerica Morfeo network. The assembly represents a really perfect opportunity to know how the Community is and establish contacts for future collaboration.

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The Morfeo Community is a social network formed by institutions interested in consolidating the open source in the business field and in the public administration. The objective is establish some collaboration bases between companies, universities and open source communities as to I+D+i projects to create business opportunities where all the community members could profit.

At this time, it has been created the Iberoamerica network with the incorporation of the Brazil Morfeo Office and the Cono Sur Morfeo Office (Argentina). The setting up of this new network could improve the Community’s common actions and help to search for the open source projects interests. So with this integration, as well as the Morfeo Community is in Spain and Europe, now is in Iberoamerica too and it can make possible to extend and improve more and more the main objectives

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Hello, my name is Cristina Breña and I am a journalist student in the Rey Juan Carlos University. I am in the last year to get my degree.

My work during this training period (journalist practise) will be to prepare the Morfeo-project communication.

I will do all the subjects related with the Community communication plan as well as I will prepare news, articles, press notes and press release (dossier) according to the Morfeo interests.

For all your doubts, suggestions or any question that you can have, please, write an email to crisbb@tid.es and I will really glad to help you.

Thanks you

Regards

Cristina Breña

More and more countries consider necessary to implant open source to beneficiate of their multiples benefits. Finland has been the last one to propose it for their public administration. In turn German stimulates its economy investing in open source and U.K take stock of their use.

Last Monday, the Finnish government published a policy document in order to support the use open source and open standards. The document is titled ‘The use of open source software in public administration’. This document explain how the project can be viable as well as the benefits that it offers in cost saving and helping to accelerate the software development. Also it explains that the use of open source will not cause major risks to any organisation and this takes into account Europe’s legal framework. The Government encourages to participate in the open source development because “can lead to more benefits”.

The German government invokes the stability and growth package instrument with a framework concept for ICT (Information Communications Technology). The objective is to expand Green-It, Open Source and IT-security with a total budget of 500 millions of Euros of which 300 is made immediately available and 200 millions of Euros are on hold by the budget committee of the German Bundestages.

In the case of UK, since 2004, it has been increased 50% the use of the open source in the main departmental websites with Apache as the core web server. Also, it has been developed new open software products more competitive and easier to include in enterprise business solutions.

For more information:

OSOR.EU. FI: Government encourages open source use by public administrations. Gijs Hillenius. Available in: http://www.osor.eu/news/finland-publishes-recommendations-regarding-the-use-of-f-os-software

Sköne Oke. Open Source and Green IT special program of the German government. Available in: http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/open-source-and-green-it-special-%0Aprogram-of-the-german-government/

Chief Information Officer Council. Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan. Available in: http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/action.asp