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[Fwd: CALIBRE project -- EU boost to open source software (Techworld.com)]

by Serge Marelli

Pour info, ca aurait l'air intéressant s'ils ne poussaient pas les brevets en même temps Serge -----Forwarded Message----- Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:06:14 +0200 "The European Union (E.U.) is hoping to give the European open source software industry a competitive boost through a Euro 1.5 million (AUD$2.68m) research project kicking off this week. The focus of the two-year CALIBRE (Co-ordination Action for Libre Software) project is to improve the way open-source projects work, through organized research and collaboration with industry, and to bring open source more into the mainstream." "The group also hopes to address the issue of software patents, which Fitzgerald and others see as having the potential to derail the progress of open-source." full text: http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;201676706;fp;2;fpid;1 EU boost to open source software Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com 06/09/2004 08:52:42 The European Union (E.U.) is hoping to give the European open source software industry a competitive boost through a Euro 1.5 million (AUD$2.68m) research project kicking off this week. The focus of the two-year CALIBRE (Co-ordination Action for Libre Software) project is to improve the way open-source projects work, through organized research and collaboration with industry, and to bring open source more into the mainstream. Ultimately this will put Europe a step ahead of the rest of the U.S.-dominated software industry, the project's leaders hope. CALIBRE will launch on Sept. 10 at University College Cork. "Interestingly, the majority of open source contributions come from Europe, but strategic thinking and leadership of many open-source projects is probably very much U.S.-dominated," said Prof Brian Fitzgerald of the University of Limerick's department of science and information systems. The University of Limerick and University College Cork are leading the project, with the National Microelectronics Application Centre and 12 academic and industrial research teams from France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the U.K. and China also taking part. Open-source software development, generally speaking, allows individuals and companies to collaborate on software that isn't owned by a single entity, and which can be distributed and modified by anyone. In recent years companies such as IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Novell Inc. have begun to back high-profile open-source projects such as the Linux operating system as a way to challenge the dominance of proprietary software vendors such as Microsoft Corp. However, the development model is still largely informally organized and remains poorly understood, Fitzgerald said. To put open source on the industry agenda, researchers need to carry out detailed analysis, massive collection of data and studies from the software engineering and economic points of view, CALIBRE believes. For example, part of the project will be to compile a database of open-source success stories and to codify and distribute best practices. In particular, Europe has competitive strengths in the "secondary" software sector -- areas such as automotive, telecommunications and consumer electronics -- but this sector doesn't currently have an effective approach to open source, Fitzgerald said. "As CALIBRE represents the leading authorities on open source in Europe, or indeed worldwide, we are in a unique position to transfer these lessons to European industry," he told Techworld. More generally, the project plans to tackle open-source issues such as ensuring code quality and supply of developer talent, and how businesses can plan strategy around open source. Researchers will even examine the socio-cultural challenges to open source projects, such as 'alpha-male' territorial squabbles and the tendency of developers to burn out. The group also hopes to address the issue of software patents, which Fitzgerald and others see as having the potential to derail the progress of open-source. "Clearly some form of protection for non-obvious innovation is necessary for industry," he said. "However, copyrights and patents come from a different era, and we need to derive more suitable versions which will work in today's software marketplace and are palatable to industry." CALIBRE will also examine two related trends currently cropping up in software development: distributed development -- factors such as outsourcing and globalization -- and unconventional, or "agile", development methods. The project's first meeting will be held in November at the Hague, which will also see the establishment of a permanent industry-research forum called Calibration. Fitzgerald stressed that CALIBRE isn't about abstract, theoretical research cut off from practical concerns. "Industry obviously do carry out a lot of research. However, the CALIBRE partners represent the leading players in this area, whose research is actually drawn upon by these companies," he said. The project partners are University of Limerick, the Business Innovation Centre of Alto Adige-SÃ¼dtirol, Chinasoft, Groupe des Ecoles de Telecommunications, National Microelectronics Applications, Poznan University of Technology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, IMRI Â University of Paris Dauphine, University College Cork, University of Lincoln, University of Maastricht / MERIT and University of Sk"vde (H"gskolan i Sk"vde), with ITEA and Open Forum Europe as official observers. CALIBRE will coordinate with existing EU projects around open source, including COSPA (Consortium for Open Source in the Public Administration) and FLOSS-POLS, which examines the use of open standards and open source in government. _______________________________________________ bxl mailing list (un)subscribe via http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/bxl and http://aktiv.ffii.org/. If you subscribed via the latter, you can unsubscribe only by going to both. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

20 years, 10 months

Keyboard w/ Trackpoint

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, since having experienced the niceties of the trackpoint on my old laptop, I've always been dreaming about a standard PC keyboard with such a trackpoint. It is my subjective impression, but I prefer it very much to a classic mouse, a trackball or a touchpad - even if it won't be good for certain games. As I found yesterday, such a thing actually exists: http://www.pckeyboard.com/pdf/EnduraPro.pdf or a similar model, without Windows keys: http://www.pckeyboard.com/pdf/Onthestick.pdf Essentially, this is an old-style IBM keyboard (the excellent piece of hardware that very few people want to get replaced) with a trackpoint and 2 mouse keys - connectors are PS/2. Actually, this is the manufacturer of those very IBM keyboards. The main advantage is that you can use keyboard & mouse without having to move your hand(s) much - ergonomically interesting, you can work faster, and you need less desktop space. I'm seriously considering ordering such a keyboard. If anyone else is interested... Oh yes - on the website, they only talk about the U.S. layout. I asked about other layouts, i.e. swiss-french. They haven't made one of those yet, but are willing to do so. They'd cost as much as the other ones ($99), plus shipping of course (which can be a hefty amount). I'll still have to ask whether they'd need a minimum number of sales before manufacturing such a layout. Greetings, Eric

20 years, 10 months

Reduction of ADSL prices in Luxembourg

by Brent Frère

I don't want any reply to this. It is pure information. I'm not shareholder of any involved parties and I dont give here advice on the best technology to get connected to the Internet. This information has been checked. If you don't believe it, please just delete the e-mail. This e-mail is not related to any previous thread. Alternet has modified its offer. The rate for a ADSL flat rate connection, requiring an existing phone line (either POTS or ISDN) is now * * *33 EUR/month* including V.A.T. for an unlimited 1 Mb/s ADSL Internet access. Uplink is 128 Kb/s. This means the ADSL service AND the Internet access. I know EPT is about to upgrade its 256 Kb/s service, I know other providers are also giving promotions on such services, I know some like other techiques and some do not require flat rates, but I THINK this is still the best ADSL flat rate Internet access offer in Luxembourg. Availability is everywhere EPT can deliver DSL services, as Alternet provides services on EPT network where their own equipment is not yet available at the same price. For more information, please consult Alternet web site (http://www.alternet.lu) but please note that this web site is ofthen out of date, so the information I give you here is more accurate than their web site. For up-to-date information, I would suggest you to directy call them. My experience as private and professional user with their service is good. -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 5, rue de Mamer L-8280 Kehlen Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Mobile: +352-021/29.05.98 Fax: +352-26.30.05.96 Home: +352-307.341 URL: http://BFrere.net This e-mail signature can be checked if you have the CaCERT certificate installed. Check http://www.CaCERT.org for details.

20 years, 10 months

le mythe des logiciels gratuits

by Gilles Maria-Sube

http://www.lesechos.fr/GU/jjjdj20040827/lec1_idees/4149341.htm article paru dans "les echos" d'aujourd'hui, c'est assez navrant � lire mais le site (http://www.lesechos.fr) offre aussi un forum ou des lecteurs sont invit�s � donner leur opinion sur divers sujets d'actualit�, nottemment la question 'en condamant Microsoft la CE condamne t-elle l'innovation dans les logiciels' ce qui a fait r�agir (plutot bien) pas mal de monde. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush

20 years, 10 months

[Fwd: [Fsfe-france] [01net] DRM: EMI et la Fnac mis en examen pour tromperie sur la qualité des CD]

by Serge Marelli

Bonne nouvelle "of some sort"... Brent, heureux? -----Forwarded Message----- To: fsfe-france(a)gnu.org <fsfe-france(a)gnu.org> Subject: [Fsfe-france] [01net] DRM: EMI et la Fnac mis en examen pour tromperie sur la qualité des CD Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:01:57 +0200 <http://www.01net.com/article/249587.html> Le temps se gâte pour les CD protégés: "La Direction départementale de la consommation, de la concurrence et de la répression des fraudes (DDCCRF) des Hauts-de-Seine est parvenue à aller un peu plus loin que les associations de consommateurs sur le front des CD protégés. EMI France et la Fnac, en tant que distributeur, viennent d'être mis en examen pour « tromperie sur la qualité substantielle d'un bien ». En l'occurrence, des CD munis de dispositifs anti-copie, qui s'avèrent illisibles sur certains lecteurs. (..)" --- Xavier Roche roche at httrack dot com _______________________________________________ Liste de discussion FSF France. http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-france -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

20 years, 10 months

desktop linux course

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, SlashDot readers among you have seen this link yesterday already. I thought I'd republish it here: http://www.iosn.net/training/end-user-manual/ It's a desktop linux user guide, available in OOo and PDF formats, written by some UN agency. Its license allows for modification and redistribution. I haven't looked into it yet (still downloading - after /. it seems their server is still overloaded), but it might be helpful for our own Linux Basic Course. Greetings, Eric

20 years, 10 months

Last call for restaurant-meeting on Thursday 26th 2004

by Pascal.Steichen＠linux.lu

Hi all, Our summer restaurant-meeting will take place on Thursday 26th 2004 at the 'Il Fragolino', if you want to join and haven't told us please do before tomorrow noon. We are 7 at the moment ! ciao, pst

20 years, 11 months

Invitation to our summer restaurant-meeting !

by Pascal Steichen

Hi all, This summer's restaurant-meeting will take place at the "Il Fragolino" (italian food : http://www.il-fragolino.lu) Please confim your presence by mail : contact(a)linux.lu before monday 23/08/2004 ! Your better half is also welcome ;) Regards, -- Pascal Steichen pascal.steichen(a)linux.lu Lilux ASBL www.lilux.lu " Linux is like a woman, hard to understand But very nice once you get under the hood. "

20 years, 11 months

[Urgent Call: The countdown is running ...]

by Pascal Steichen

The LU page for this can be found here, but please read further to get more info about this action : http://www.linux.lu/wiki/index.php/FFIILetterAndPostCardAction Thanks for our help ! For LiLux asbl, pst ----- Forwarded message from Lars Noschinski <lars(a)public.noschinski.de> ----- Hello! As some as you may have read on bxl, yesterday the 20th and last translation of the Councils proposal for a directive "on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions" (better known as software patents) appeared on the councils website: http://register.consilium.eu.int/servlet/driver?page=Result&lang=EN&typ=Adv… For the delivery of the Urgent Call this means, the countdown has been started. After a six week period, the Council can formally adopt this political agreement, so this bad proposal will go the the Parliament again. To reach our aim of reversing the 18 May Council's decision, we have prepared the Urgent Call http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/cons0406 an appeal to the national governments and parliaments to prevent the formal adoption of the May 18 Council's Decision and work on that directive on political (not bureaucratic) point of view. To be most effective, the UC must be delivered in all European countries. Some are partly finished, a few (Greece and France) are already done, but there are also some countries where nobody started it yet. If you don't want to software patents, this is a task where you can reach something meaningful. How can I participate? ====================== Nice to know there is so much support :) At first, you should find out, who's working on it in your country yet and contact him/her. You find this information on http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrCons0406En and your countries page linked from there may be information about the current state and open tasks. You can contact me, if you're missing the mail addresses. If you need support, consilium-parl will be glad to help you. How to subscribe is described on: http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/consilium-parl Nobody is taking care of it in my country! ========================================== That's the hard case. Fortunately, you can build on the preparations made in other countries. As you'll most certainly have questions and to stay informed, consilium-parl will be useful. Also, having 1-2 or more persons supporting you will make it easier. For collaborative work, there is a national wiki page, linked from http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsRecv0406En If you start working on it, please drop me a note, so I know somebody is taking care of it and I can rest easy ;) What's to be done? ================== For the delivery of the Urgent Call, some basic tasks must be done: * Collect the documents to send. The Urgent Call consists of the letter itself and some accompagning appendixes. The letter itself should be translated and typesetted. As time is running out now, I suggest not to translate the appendixes anymore, just use one of the translated versions, they are listed on http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrCons0406En, just like the instructions for translating * Find recipients For the beginning, collect 4-5 recipients (Head of state, head of parliament, concerned minister(s), (concerned MP)). List them with their addresses (post + phone if possible) on your national wiki page. If you started sending, you may extend this list to reach more people, but as we don't have much time, I suggest to start with a few. * Customizing Either you write a cover letter or you customize the letter to address it to each specific recipient (a "Dear Mr. President, ..." may be enough). Put a pdf online for every version. * Sending See also: http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsSend0406En Send it as a letter to each recipient. Phone them a few days later to ensure, that they received and read it. If there is a signatory from your country, he/she/it should be able to forward it too (CEA-PME has members in many european countries, this may be worth a look). Also other FFII supporters should spread it. If they write a short, personal cover letter, it'll improve attention. Links about the Urgent Call =========================== * The Urgent Call http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/cons0406 * Reversal of the Council's decision http://kwiki.ffii.org/ConsReversEn * Main project page / news http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrCons0406En * Delivery organisation page (with links to national organisation pages) http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsRecv0406En * Sending instructions / results http://kwiki.ffii.org/LtrConsSend0406En Thank you for reading this long mail! Lars Noschinski, project leader Urgent Call _______________________________________________ Lu-parl maillist Subscribe through the project system http://www.ffii.org/assoc/knecht/proj/, fine-tune via http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/lu-parl http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/lu-parl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Pascal Steichen pascal.steichen(a)linux.lu Lilux ASBL www.lilux.lu " Linux is like a woman, hard to understand But very nice once you get under the hood. "

20 years, 11 months

Bill Gates bei MC Donalds

by Alain Knaff

Bill Gates: Ich hätte gerne einen BigMac Kassierer: Ein Big Mac, eine Cola. Macht 6,99. Bill Gates: Ich habe nur einen BigMac bestellt! Kassierer: Die Cola gehört dazu, ist Teil eines Gesamtpakets. Bill Gates: Wie bitte? Die Cola zahle ich nicht Kassierer: Brauchen sie auch nicht. Die Cola ist gratis. Bill Gates: Aber kostete der BigMac alleine bisher nicht 3,99? Kassierer: Stimmt, aber der BigMac hat jetzt neue Leistungsmerkmale. Er hat eine Cola im Lieferumfang! Bill Gates: Ich habe eben erst eine Cola getrunken. Ich brauche jetzt keine Cola. Kassierer: Dann gibt's auch keinen BigMac. Bill Gates: Na gut, ich zahle 3.99 und verzichte auf die Cola. Kassierer: Man kann die Teile des Gesamtpaketes nicht trennen. BigMac und Cola sind nahtlos integriert. Bill Gates: Quatsch. BigMac und Cola sind zweierlei! Kassierer: Passen sie mal auf. (Er tunkt den BigMac in einen Becher Cola.) Bill Gates: Was soll denn das? Kassierer: Das ist im Interesse des Kunden, So können wir einen einheitlichen Geschmack in allen Komponenten garantieren.

20 years, 11 months

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