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.

The 1^st Morfeo Community meeting in Iberoamerica will be held within the SEPG LA 2008 at Mar del Plata, Argentina and the presentation in society of MORFEO South Cone office.

The objective of the meeting is to present from different perspectives of the use of Free Software in companies in both sides of the Atlantic and to debate on the business and collaboration possibilities of the Open Source offers at the enterprise and the Public Administration environment. The round table will count with panelistas from first international level and it will be followed by a debate with the assistants participation.
Panelist

• Dani Armendariz, President of ASOLIF (Federación de Asociaciones de Software Libre de Españ) and General Director of Grupo IKUSNET.
• Fernando Toledo, President of Solar (Asociación de Software Libre Argentina)
• Andres Sclippa, WhyFLOSS manager and Latam Business Manager, Neurowork
• Sergio Bandinelli, R&D Director from ESI - European Software Institute
• Gerardo Renzetti, ESICenter Cono Sur
• Andrés Leonardo Martínez - Juan José Hierro, Telefónica I+D (holographic)