Morfeo PROJECT

The VIII Free Software Conference count on Morfeo

crisbb — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:47:55 +0000

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)

II Morfeo Community Meeting in Latin American

crisbb — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:09:24 +0000

Next Thursday 25th June, it is going to celebrate a new Morfeo’s meeting in the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA).

In so awaited event, attendees will be able to know all the new initiatives and proposals of the Community Morfeo Cono Sur as well as to make a balance of the obtained community results until now. Among other things, it will be presented Open Marketplace, MyMobileWeb, ezWeb proyects realized by Morfeo Spain.

It will be the perfect occasion to announce the advances of the network Morfeo offices that have been created in Latin America (Morfeo Cono Sur and Morfeo Brazil) to share aims and to realize a collaborative work.

The meeting will begin at 8:45 and it is specially aim at TIC companies, public administrations, technological centres, universities and other sectors that they consider the open source software as the key for the innovation.

In order to attempt you should register by sending an email to mariaeugenia.romero@morfeoconosur.org

To see the full schedule and check all the information, consult the Morfeo Cono Sur official web page: http://conosur.morfeo-project.org/

We hope that the meeting is interesting to you and you want to join it.

Find yourself in the Community Map

almo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:55:05 +0000

Thanks to Cristina Brema, Morfeo has from now on its own Community Map.

Find yourself in it and check that the information about your organization is ok.

Ver Mapa de públicos de la Comunidad Morfeo en un mapa más grande

4th INES General Assembly

almo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:54:08 +0000

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.

A new community space: Morfeo Geeks

apoloval — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:19:16 +0000

Since last week the community has a new space for disemmination purposes: Morfeo Geeks.

Morfeo Geeks is a place under Morfeo Community where its members shares among them curiosities on technology and computing with a technical approach. There you can discuss about software development, computing systems, distributed algorithms, cutting edge hardware or anything else you consider interesting.

If you want to collaborate but you do not have an account, you can ask for it sending an email to apv at tid.es.

Morfeo presents some of their outstanding projects in the 7th WhyFloss Conference

crisbb — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:29:15 +0000

Last Thursday, it took place the 7th WhyFloss Conference. The participation of the Morfeo Community [1] was by Juan José Hierro, Morfeo’s chairman and principal technological expert in Telefónica I+D. He began his speech explaining the well-known Christensen’s Law, which says the importance of the value chain where all the components obtains their own benefits. Besides, he emphasized the idea that business should use open source software as strategic and business value.

Juanjo Hierro stressed the main technologies that it is successfully developing in the Community. For instance, MyMobileWeb, an application which facilitate the development in web sites for mobile mechanism. This is an example of a successfully icon of Morfeo. But, without a doubt, the most expectancy thing was the live demonstration about another important application creating in Morfeo, EzWeb. With EzWeb, each user can design their own Internet access window and it offers facilities and mechanisms that you can´t find in other similar applications.

The conference also offered other interesting presentations about the open source software possibilities.

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Morfeo meets Grupo Tibi

almo — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:03:00 +0000

Yesterday night it was a pleasure for me to have a dinner with some members of the Grupo Tibi association.

After Whyfloss Conference about twenty people shared a funny dinner in Leganes, at the south of Madrid. Moreover we were talking about technology and its business. They taught me a lot of useful teachings. I had the opportunity to hear some of the best entrepreneurs of Spain to talk about their experiences but also some curiosities of Grupo Tibi for example of what is the spot which there is in the Grupo Tibi bylaws.

I would like to thank to Sergio Montoro, the president of the Grupo Tibi, his invitation.

I hope we can continue working together to foster the economic growing around software technologies.

Morfeo goes to Latin America, do you want to join us?

crisbb — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:25:29 +0000

Next June, Morfeo goes to Iberoamerica in order to attempt to a Morfeo conference in Argentina, 25^th and we hope that you want to come with us.

There, to all of you that come, you will have the opportunity to be in the event to know all the Community tasks that were are doing and also you can know the new Latin American venues; Morfeo Brazil Office and Morfeo Cono Sur Office.

As well, Mofeo doesn’t want to miss the opportunity to join the 10^th International Free Software Forum (FISL) which take place in Porto Alegre (Brazil) from 24^th to 27^th.

FISL is the biggest and oldest open source software event in Latin America and it will be an exceptional way to know different open source communities, share experience, knowledge and ideas.

If you consider that it is an interesting event and you want to participate, don´t doubt.

We´ll expect you!

If you want more information, please, contact with us.

Universitary OSS Contest of Castilla la Mancha: final stage

almo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:10:29 +0000

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:

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.

7th Edition of WhyFLOSS Conference

crisbb — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:54:24 +0000

Next 21^st May, it is going to present the sixth WhyFLOSS Conference in the Carlos III Univerity auditorium in Leganés (Madrid, Spain). It will be the third one in Spain and the conference let people know the open source technology within FLOSS ((Free/Libre/Open Source Software).

The Morfeo Community will participate for the fist time with a conference in charge of Andrés Leonardo Martínez about new approximations of the development of business with the open source software (OSS). Andrés L. speak about how OSS can be used in a practical approach to fostering economic development and improving competitive advantage.

Andrés L. Martínez is involved in the Morfeo Community management. Also he takes part in Vulcano and QualiPSo projects in which promote the adoption of OSS in the industry.

For more information, http://www.whyfloss.com/es/conference/madrid09/program/176