Tonigh, I am going to talk about Igalia at Pecha Kucha Night as part of the fifht edition. Today, it is going to be held in Playa Club, A Coruña.
More info: http://oi41.tinypic.com/2h2kqjm.jpg
The event is free but capacity is limited, so if you want to be there, go there early to get tickets :).
See you there!
Last weekend, Master on Free Software organization (Igalia and URJC) arranged an open session in Vigo.
First of all, thanks to NovaCaixaGalicia because they offered us a meeting room to hold this session.
More than 20 people attended the session and 5 people from “Master network” put forward their experiences around free software. Some interesting topics:
Thanks to lecturers and attendants. This open session wouldn’t happen without your help :).
I would like to remind that you can already enroll yourself in any of the modules (desktop/mobile and web development). We have just updated the program for the module.
See full summary at Master website.
A photo of the first lecture:
Master on Free Software organizes an open session in March, the 18th. People from the master network will talk about their experiences around free software explaining different projects and activities they are taking part.
Jesús María Barahona, teacher and researcher at Systems and Communications group (LibreSoft) and contributor to different books and articles about Free Software, is going to participate in this session. Moreover, some ex-students will talk about their experiences and activities. More information about this event in this page.
The event is free and open but registration is necessary in order to control capacity.
I, as part of NavalPlan team, am going to FOSDEM this weekend. I’ll be there to learn from other people but I’ll also be available to explain NavalPlan to these people interested in knowing more about the project.
I’ll be wearing this t-shirt:
NavalPlan is a free software web project planning tool developed and Igalia is one of the main contributors. Main features are:
Master on Free Software Projects Development and Management offers a set of specialization courses inside the master. First module is “Systems administration” and it is taught between December and February. These courses are very useful for people interesting on free software administration and development. Enrolment period is open until December, the 10th for systems module.
More info at: http://www.mastersoftwarelibre.com/modulos/.
This is the last week for enrolment in Master on Free Software (Vigo edition). If you have doubts about the master ;), please contact with us and we will answer all of them…
On the other hand, if the master is interesting for you but you prefer specific courses, we will offer some modules during next year:
These modules will be announced and new enrolment period will be open for them. Stay tuned!
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:
It was a very interesting debate and I would like to stress some interesting conclusions:
Yes!, after listening some people who recommended us to plan a master in Vigo, Master on Free Software organization has decided to open the possibility of teaching a new master in Vigo.
If you had doubts of enrolling our master in Coruña because you were from Vigo, now it is your time :).
More information at enrollment page.
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
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:
I recommend you to attend this sessions, they are going to be very interesting ;). More information in master website.
