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