The next July 8t, 9th and 10th INES, the Spanish Initiative of Services and Software, is going to have its General Assembly. INES is the Spanish Technological Platform dedicated to the Systems and Software Services. It represents a scientific and technological network to foster the cooperation. The event has been co organized by the Innovation, Science and Enterprises Department of the Government of the Andalusia.

The provisional agenda and actualized information about the event can be found at INES website (see here).

Morfeo Project supports this kind of initiative and invite to you to attend the meeting.

The second edition of the Universitary OSS Contest arrives to its final stage in the city of Cuenca. The following finalist projects are going to presented:

IcePick Sapiens eOPSOA GesControl Security Blue Harvest Spela FAJAX DVS Car

Also, just before the winners will be announce, Andrés L. Martínez (Morfeo Office) is going to present the seminar “Collaborative Tools for Free Software Development”.

See you there.

The Morfeo Community and its technologies will be present at the 18th World Wide Web Conference, which will take place in Madrid, from April 22 to April 24.

On Thursday, April 23rd, Juan J. Hierro will be introducing the Community to the WWW2009 attendees by presenting a paper  he co-authored with Javier Soriano, Andrés Leonardo Martínez, David Lizcano, Miguel Jiménez, titled “The Morfeo Open Source Community: building technologies of the Future Web through open innovation”.  You can visit the Web page of the WWW in Iberoamerica Refereed Track, which hosts this presentation, for further details on it. The talk will represent a significant opportunity to present ongoing work as well as some of the most relevant technology innovations being lead by Morfeo partners to the Iberoamerican Community. This will in turn help fostering collaboration and bridging new partnerships.

On Friday, April 24th, Morfeo Project will contribute to a panel session chaired by the W3C Spain Office, titled “Open Innovation and Open Labs: An emergent opportunity for leading technology innovation and development for the Future Internet”, by presenting a nobel approach to Open Innovation that  has been shown to be effective.  Recent initiatives being undertaken by the Community will be explained, especially those focused on the creation of the Morfeo’s Open Labs network its expansion in Latin America, thus bringing this initiative closer to the heart of the Ibero American WWW community. Morfeo has recently opened there two new Offices: the first one to give service to the shouthern cone and the second in Brazil. The panel session will be chaired by Martín Álvarez, Manager of the W3C Spain Office, and the panelists will be Antonio Campos and Eduardo Álvarez (CTIC Foundation), Juan J. Hierro (Telefónica I+D) and Jesús M. González-Barahona (GSyC/LibreSoft, Rey Juan Carlos University). Please visit the Conference Website for further details on this panel session.

Additionally, during the conference Telefónica I+D will be presenting in its stand some of the most relevant technologies being developed in Morfeo, such as EzWeb, FAST and  MyMobileWeb.

I warmly encourage you to join us in this event. Sincerely, I am sure you will enjoy it.

Tomorrow, the course “Software libre: fundamentos e impacto en la sociedad” starts at the Oviedo University. This course is the outcome of the collaboration between Morfeo Project and CTIC Fundation.

It will be at School of Computer Science of the Oviedo University since April 14^th until April 24^th and it is going to be presented the main impact of OSS in several areas. You can find more information right here.

See you there.

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.