The Morfeo Community wants to improve a network of contacts that benefits relations with other organizations which work within the development and use of open source software. With this initiative we want to make known new links to promote a collaborative work and obtain a more productive market.

SOLIS – Free and Open Source Software CoOperative

1. Background
Solis is a Free and Open Source Software solutions and services co-operative. Solis was formed as part of regional development project lead by Univates, an University Center located in the city of Lajeado, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. Originally, Solis’ members were students, professors and former members of Univates’ IT department. Today Solis employs 51 collaborators, including computer engineers, systems analysts and administrators.
2. Solutions
Solis develops and integrates free and open source software products when building a complete solution for its customers. When doing this, Solis takes in consideration the always growing need of
Information and Communication Technologies as the strategic support for its customers. Solus is always in focus with the customer’s own market and business, preserving previous investments and building solutions that are trustworthy and expandable. As a result, Solis’ customers become more competitive, technology independent and empowered by the freedom of choice.
Besides offering a full range of solutions for educational institutions, government and corporations, Solis also develops solutions specifically tailored to the needs of its customers and designs and manages systems migration to free and open source software based solutions.
Solis includes in its solutions, along with products developed by the co-operative, other free and open source software made available by the development community. Among these community products used by Solis are the GNU/Linux operating system, the OpenOffice.Org office suite and web services such as apache.
Solis offers installation services, technical support and training for all of the solutions it delivers. Network infrastructure services, including email security, environment management are also services offered by Solis so the customer’s can consider Solis a one-stop shop for all of its IT needs.
Solis also provides consulting services for a wide variety of systems and products provided by the free and open source software development community.

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The Morfeo Community wants to improve a network of contacts that benefits relations with other organizations which work within the development and use of open source software. With this initiative we want to make known new links to promote a collaborative work and obtain a more productive market.

Training and Consulting Services in Linux and FOSS*, specialized in infrastructure and solutions
Since 2001 – when the company was founded – 4Linux has always focused on large service projects that required a high specialization in FOSS. *FOSS – Free and Open Source Software.
Service Portfolio
– Training – offering over 25 different courses, all focused on Free software.
– Consulting and Projects – highly specialized in migrations to Linux (Debian) and free software.
– HackerTeen – courses in networks and computer security, hacker ethics and entrepreneurialism on the Internet, especially for the Internet generation through the concept of EDUTAINMENT.
Revenue Profile per Type
– FOSS Services – 100%
A few clients that have trained their technical teams with 4Linux
MEC Caixa Econômica Federal
SERPRO INPE
Banco do Brasil (Bank of Brazil) IBM
Portugal Telecom Embrapa
EDS Ericsson
HP INPA
Itautec Siemens
Prodesp
… and over 15.000 professionals trained.
Linux Distributions that 4Linux works with

– With a greater focus on Debian
Free software that 4Linux works with
Focus on the support of non-commercial free software maintained by communities ( PostgreSQL, Jboss.org, Apache, PostFix, OpenLdap, Samba among others).
Specialized in critical mission environments using free platforms (bank transactions, billing..).
For further information…
Rodolfo Gobbi                                  Marcelo Marques
General Director                              Director
rodolfo@4linux.com.br                    mmarques@4Linux.com.br
55 11.2125.4747                               55 11.2125.4747
55 11.9970.1527                               55 11.9970.6682

The Morfeo Community wants to improve a network of contacts that benefits relations with other organizations which work within the development and use of open source software. With this initiative we want to make known new links to promote a collaborative work and obtain a more productive market.

Organization

The objective of OpenOffice.org Español is a distributed community throughout Spain and Latin America that works within the global project of OpenOffice.org to promote the international growth in use and popularity of the office suite and to advocate for the innovation and development of open standards and free software.

OpenOffice.org Español, under the initiative “Open for Business”, creates a sustainable business model for the community, offering value added services under a better business connection.

Responsible

OpenOffice.org Español is an organization with operation across the regions. The global lead is Alexandro Colorado who maintains connections with each country’s marketing contact to support local activities.

Ismael Fanlo, responsible for Spain Marketing is an expert trainer in office technology and has presented several lectures, conferences and workshops on OpenOffice.org throughout Spain.

Services and products

Open for Business provides consulting, migration, training and support solutions to organizations that require large implementations of OpenOffice.org by means of a professionally managed transition plan.

Contact
Contact with OpenOffice.org members and the responsible organization are the following:
website: http://es.openoffice.org
Alexandro Colorado (Project Lead): jza@openoffice.org
Ismael Fanlo (Spain contact): ifanlo@openoffice.org

Project development

Our relation with the Morfeo project has the goal to design and empower projects that can strategically improve the adoption and use of open standards and innovation on the OpenOffice.org platform backed by the sustainable models from Morfeo.

The European Journal for the Informatics Proffesional, Upgrade, and the Journal of the Association of Technical Computing, Novática, have been published in its latest issue of June, an article about the Morfeo Community.

The authors, Andrés Leonardo Martínez Ortiz and Cristina Breña Breña, wrote a review through the Morfeo Community history since its beginning in 2004 until today. In the article titled Morfeo Community: Open Source Strategies for Open Innovation can be appreciated the different evolutionary stages and is explained how, step by step, a project created by Telefónica I+D, the Polytecnic of Madrid University and the Rey Juan Carlos University has become a community with more than 80 members. It also provides an explanatory view about how a community of free software is organized under its own experience and briefly recounts some of their projects on the rise.

This latest publication is a special issue about free software for companies where you can find, a part from the Morfeo ones, other outstanding articles. For example, the article written by  Jesús M. González-Brahona, Teófilo Romera Otero and Björn Lundell, Libre Software and the Corporate World. The authors attempt to give the keys to find the best benefits to using open source technology and how business and professionals can make the most output. The same way, Applying Open Source Software Principles in Product Lines,  Frank van der Linden, explains his research to reduce the develop problems and increase the quality of the global software. With the articles Built and Sustain a Community with Practice: Method Applied to Floss Projects and Community Management in Open Source Projects, spoke about the creation and the revitalization of communities. These are just a few examples of what it is offered in the last edition.

Open Source Software is an increasing technology and it is used in all over the world. Spain along with Brazil, France or Germany, are in the ranking of the countries where there are more level of development and progress. However, unfortunately, for a lot of companies the open source software is still a great unknown.

From Morfeo Community we encourage you to meddle in the interesting reading of all the articles in this issue. The English version, you can get it in digital way in the journal Upgrade [1] and the Spanish version of the magazine is offered in Novática Magazine [2]. About this one, Morfeo will distribut some copies for those who tell us. If you want one you have to write a letter to crisbb(@) tid.es (limited copies).

We hope that you enjoy the reading.

[1] http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/issues/2009/3/upgrade-vol-X-3.pdf (English)
[2] http://www.ati.es/novatica/ (Spanish)

During next week, since Monday 14th to Thursday 17th September, it is going to take place the I Education, Software and Free Knowledge Congress, COSECOL, in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).

As the university rector said, Dr. Franklin García Fermín, this congress allows to evaluate the importance of the free software in the society through education, research and development, and also it lets people know the free applications which are world heritage.

Although the event is specifically aimed at Dominicans society to make people aware of the open source software use, the participation on the event is open to all the audience no matter their providence. Likewise, the speakers of the event, who are form different nationalities, will show the adevences and development that are happening in each country thanks to free software. Experts on this tecnology such as Alexandro Colorado, OpenOffice.org Spanish, Dru Lavigne, chairwoman of the Certification Group BSD Inc. or Mario Albuja Sáenz, National Informatics Assistant Secretary of the Belgian government, will be at the event.

The topics that it is going to be spoken during this 4 days, will be a wide range of social nature. It is raised subjects such as rights and fairness in the democratic construction of knowledge, production and consumption of knowledge in the frontier of the digital world or the ethical and political dimensions of education in free software. All with the aim of agreeing on a bill to pass in Congress to establish clear rules and regulations for the use of free software.

Hopefully this conference it will be the first of many future editions.

More information: www.cosecol.org