Report in the Irish Times today.
University of Limerick, University College Cork and National
Microelectronics Application Centre are the Irish partners in this EU funded
project, CALIBRE : Co-ordination Action for Libre Software Engineering for
Open Development Platforms for Software and Services.
Described thus at:
http://www.calibre.ie/
CALIBRE is an EU FP6 Co-ordination Action project, involving the leading
authorities on libre/open source software. CALIBRE is led by the University
of Limerick, Ireland and brings together an interdisciplinary consortium of
12 academic and industrial research teams from France, Ireland, Italy, the
Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and China. The key goals of
CALIBRE are :
to integrate and coordinate open source software research and practice to
ensure that the open source phenomenon flourishes and delivers to its true
potential, especially for the European secondary' software sector
(automotive, telco etc) where Europe has particular strengths; strengths;
to foster the effective transfer of the many useful lessons from open source
software to facilitate the next generation of software engineering methods
and tools;
to establish a European industry open source software research policy forum.
CALIBRE aims to coordinate the study of the characteristics of open source
software projects, products and processes; distributed development; and
agile methods. Integrating and coordinating these research activities to
address key objectives for open platforms, such as transferring lessons
derived from open source software development to conventional development
and agile methods, and vice versa.
END
Teresa
Hi,
As an experiment I have made a wiki available at ifso.ie, in the hope
that it can be used for all the things a wiki is usually used for
(community memory, collaborative document editing, etc).
http://www.ifso.ie/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi
Please play nicely.
If you are working on a project for IFSO then go ahead and add a page
for it on the wiki and we can start to gather all the information
together in one place.
I should be interested to know how people find this as a tool. Feel
free to mail me (off list might be most convenient) - especially if
there's something we can do to make this more useful to the
community. If you think it's useless and should be done away with
better tell me that as well.
Thanks,
--
Glenn Strong
Hey all,
Without much of a plan, me and a change of clothes went to Brussels last
Wednesday and found a job and a place to stay.
I'm living near the parliament, which should be handy, but I'm gonna miss
some meatspace fsfeie meetings.
Also, my mail has piled up unmercifully. I will get through it, but typing
is also slowed since I'm getting used to a foreign keyboard layout. If
there's anything that's looking for input from me, if you mail me off list
I'll respond within a day or two. My fsfeie mail folder has 30 unread mails
right now, and my internet access is only from net cafes.
I will be back for visits and I hope to still make it to some of the
meetings. IRC meetings would be great for me, but thinking about that is
for another time, and I don't even know my hours of work or my address yet.
I have no phone for now either.
Brussels kicks ass, lovely place, great expat community, great pub openning
hours (24), liberal people.
--
Ciarán O'Riordan
http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/
Free Software in Ireland: http://ifso.ie
> Any ideas for the layout of the cd? Here is a rough test, any comments
> (should we use the gnu&hard or just our logo, or both or none?)?
>
> http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~cathcart/ifso/cd-template.jpg
>
> In the above image the grey backround will be a white basecoat (doesn't
> have to be).
The image looks nice. Can we add the "IFSO" logo on the left, or would it
look too busy?
By the way, I recently transfered my CD collection to a holder, I now have a
pile (probably about two hundred) of assorted plastic CD cases. I'm not
sure how it would look (all different, not in perfect condition, etc).
Malx.
P.S. I've ordered IFSO t-shirts. They should be ready in about three weeks.
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The cd for the netsocs is comeing along well, we've got enough people
interested to do a run off 500+ at 76cent each.
I ended up with cdman.com to duplicate the cd's. Unfortunitally they
have some rather exacting standards.
The artwork to bw screen printed onto the cd for some reason HAS to be
in one of the following formats:
* Quark Express V3.3 or better
* Adobe Illustrator V8.0 or better
* Adobe InDesign V3.0 (CS) or better
I don't have access to any of these programs. Also we have to specify
the exact panatone colours, not cmyk or rgb (apparently quark and
illustrator can do this. Can anyone help with this, there is a rather
large cost in sending them an EPS/TIFF
>What program are you making an EPS
>file from? If it is made from anything other than the
>3 programs listed then there is a $50 fee per page setup / $50
>per label setup charge. If you are making an EPS from
>Photoshop we have a discount rate of $100
>for PSD file submissions as per:
>http://www.cdman.com/graphics/template_tutorial/photoshop_guidlines.htmlhttp://www.cdman.com/graphics/submitting_files.html
Also they require a print out of the agreement that grants distribution
for all third party software. I don't fancy printing out the GPL with
reference to all the software on the cd, perhaps i take morphix as one
piece of software, that would make things manageable. Any suggestions?
http://www.cdman.com/technical/anti-piracy.html#cdrom
Lastly, they seem to be using 78 (680mb) minute cd's not 80 minute ones,
we'll have to trim things down a bit (not much).
Re: changes to the cd. So far i've updated all the windows/macos
software, removed mozilla (firebird instead) and added some suggestions
from the netsocs (vim, frozen bubble and one or two more, all gpl)
David
At the IFSO meeting last week, I said that I would check when exactly
Charlie McCreevy takes up his post as Commissioner for the Internal Market
and Services. This is on 1.11.2004. This means that he won't be in post when
the Council meet to confirm their decision on the software patents
directive, due in September.
A list of the nominee Commissioners and CVs is at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/newcomm_en.htm
Teresa
Minutes from 20040817
Present: Glenn Strong
Malcolm Tyrrell
Teresa Hackett
Rory Browne
Conor Nash
Discussed:
* We should begin making arrangements for the AGM, etc. in
January. Working backwards from the dates, what is the latest people
can join and still vote? [update: AGM in January, 4 month lead time
on voting. Therefore, anyone wishing to vote must join by or at the
next meeting]
* Publicise a list of ways to donate or pay membership fees (cash,
cheque, EFT and Malcolm has offered to take PayPal)
* Related to the ongoing letterhead discussion, the idea of using a
PO box was raised again. Glenn agreed to price it and report back
to the committee.
* Malcolm agreed to find out what the ststus of the T-Shirts is and
report back.
* Discussion of the "free software day" event. It seems that there
will not be enough people available to commit to doing this
properly. There was agreement that the idea is worth pursuing, and
it was suggested that we move the event to Halloween and begin
publicising it properly now. As well as a possible showing of
the Revolution OS film some creative commons videos were
suggested. Exploring FSFE affiliation for the same event (and
tying the events together) was suggested. Inviting a speaker (such
as Georg Greve) was also discussed, and considered a good idea.
* The remainder of the time was taken up with a discussion of the
ongoing software patentability directive.
* Charlie McCreevy will be the commissioner responsible for this,
but will he be in place when the next decisions are made?
[update: no, which renders quite a bit of the subsequent
discussion irrelevant I fear]
* If so, we should figure out the best way to deal with
him. Since he is an Irish politician there was a feeling that
we may be in a good position to talk to him. We should
coordinate with organisations like FFII to ensure best
performance.
* Would Redhat Ireland be willing to get involved? [update: see
for rthe Redhat patent policy]. As a spin off question it was
asked if we could assemble a (even partial) list of Irish or
Irish based software companies that have a stated position on
software patentability.
http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
--
Glenn Strong
Hi,
I haven't finished reading this yet. However, here is an article from
Groklaw analysing a pro-swpat position. It looks interesting.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040821092613988
Éibhear
--
Éibhear Ó hAnluain
IFSO
Ireland.
> Paypal now accepts withdrawal's to irish bank accounts.
> Paypal is an ugly beast, but there was talk of a paypal
> account previously. It's also an easy way of accepting
> credit card payments.
For the moment, I'm willing to accept PayPal payments for
membership fees.
Email committee(a)ifso.ie in advance before sending me any
money.
Good luck,
Malcohol.
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