Monthly Archives: September 2010

Round table at Master on Free Software

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Master on Free Software open sessions were closed during last weekend with a round table and a seminar.

First of all, thanks to speakers and attendants for coming. We talked during three hours about different topics:

  • Free software and public administration.
  • Free software and industry.
  • Free software opportunities in Galicia.

It was a very interesting debate and I would like to stress some interesting conclusions:

  • Public administration should use “open standards” and deploy “free software”. Although, there are big debates about how to define “open standard” and free software deployment is not easy in short-term.
  • Galician free software sector is in good shape comparing with other regions with over 30 companies in Agasol (Galician association of free software companies) offering more than 300 jobs and invoicing more than 18M€.
  • Free software offers big opportunities to export knowledge from Galicia, having some advantages regarding languages (opening doors in Portuguese countries and Spanish countries). However, Galicia will need to break the English language barrier :).

NavalPlan development courses

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As part of NavalPlan project, Igalia is going to teach NavalPlan development courses. These courses are interesting for companies that would like to study how NavalPlan works, how to develop it and how to integrate with it.

NavalPlan is an application to schedule and manage projects (not only for Naval :)) that allows any user to work with several projects at a time having a good view of company projects status. NavalPlan is free software. More info at [1] and [2]. Take a look…

[1] http://www.navalplan.org

[2] http://www.igalia.com/nc/work/project/item/navalplan/

Last weekend sessions – Master on Free Software

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Last weekend I attended four very interesting lectures about how Agasol companies are making business around free software. These four examples are: Quobis, Pexego, Bdunk and Aitire. Thanks them to come to explain their products to us.

Next week, Master on Free Software will continue its open sessions with:

  • Round table: “Free software and employment in local environment and international possibilities”.  Andrés Estévez (Blusens), Javier Jardón (Gnome Foundation), Pablo Sangiao (Icarto) and people from Igalia. Moderator: Juan José Sánchez Penas. Igalia.
  • “Enxeñería lingüística e software libre”. José Ramom Pichel. Imaxin Software.

I recommend you to attend this sessions, they are going to be very interesting ;). More information in master website.