The VIII Free Software Conference count on Morfeo

From 1st to 4th July in the Historical building of the Barcelona University it is going to take place the 8ª Free Software Conference.

On Friday 3rd 11:30 am, Andrés Leonardo Martínez, Morfeo Office representative,  will take charge of a speech about Business Community of Free Software Development. There, it will be explain the effectiveness of open source software to competitive advantages development and to promote innovation. Also, Morfeo will be presented as a model of collaboration community where different kind of organizations work together to achieve economic development in a competitive market  through the use of open source technologies.

Thereupon, Jesús M. Barahona and Pedro Coca, also members of the Morfeo Community, are going to explain their speech about “ competence center of free software” where it will describe the easiness provided by competence centers to companies and professionals working on the subject of open source software. In particular, the European project Qualipso together with Morfeo are already organizating a  network of such centers.

Free Software Conference, JPL, is a platform to raise awareness to the society about the different  activities that are doing within free software which were focus on the Catalan universities uses and nowadays has been expanded to every sector of the country .

If you want to know how is going the conference of the Community, you can follow in real time by twitter (MorfeoProject).

It is a free attendance, you only have to do a previous registration: http://www.jornadespl.org/join_form

If you want more information you can check:
Official press conference: nota-prensa-viii-jornada-de-software-libre.pdf (Spanish)
Schedule of the day: http://www.jornadespl.org/biblioteca/viii-jornades/papereria/programa-a4.pdf (most of the information is in Catalan)