Qualipso co-organizes the Open Word Forum 2009: Where Open Source Leaders Meet

Free Libre and Open Source Software: at the heart of the Digital Recovery
Paris, October 1-2, 2009 – in partnership with the Open Source Think Tank. In 2009 again, Qualipso will co-organize the second edition of a new international event on Open Source, the Open World Forum. After the success of its first edition in 2008, the Open World Forum 2009 ambitions to create the leading global summit bringing together decision-makers from across the world to discuss the technological, financial and social impact of open source technologies.
Founded by a group of Open Source communities - including Qualipso - and heavyweight players from the IT industry, the Open World Forum has already brought together many of the main international IT players, most of the main FLOSS consortia, and a large network of research centers, innovation clusters and SMEs from five continents.
Within the Forum, Qualipso will organize an Open Source Competence Center Summit, bringing together the main international competence centers and promotional centers from the field of Open Source software. More information.

QualiPSo releases a first version of CMMI-like model for FLOSS development

QualiPSo proposes a CMM-like model for the implementation of trustworthy open source processes. The trustworthy criteria were mapped onto CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) to arrive at the Open Maturity Model (OMM). Based on these results, a first ver-sion of the process model was defined. The challenge is to build a process model which is CMM-like but avoids complexity in favour of wide acceptance. Therefore the new model is al-so split into levels akin to CMMI, but with contents varying from CMMI. Guidelines on how integrators can use this model are also presented. Feedback and comments from our readers are really appreciated. Download the OMM model and guidelines.

QualiPSo project demonstrates final work results on technical and semantic interoperability

Interoperability is a crucial quality and trust factor for FLOSS. In the past two years the QualiPSo interoperability activity developed and demonstrated approaches and components fostering interoperability across borders of any kind - technical, semantic and organizational. Test scenarios, test environments and test methodologies have been developed and implemented in order to identify open issues and potential enhancements concerning interoperability between FLOSS products and FLOSS middleware platforms as well as between open and closed source software. In addition, several semantic interoperability enhancements for FLOSS middleware platforms and FLOSS forges have been developed and made available to the Open Source community. Such enhancement includes: semantic business process integration, cross-forges project migration, semantic mediation of security policies, cross-forges search, etc. More information, proof of concept source code and documentation are available.

The Spanish QualiPSo Competence Centre is at your disposal!

Last 26th of March, a press conference about the launch of the Spanish Competence Centre in Madrid took place. This press conference was collocated in the Morfeo Community Assembly celebrated in the Organization Business School (Madrid). Several generalist and specialized related mass media covered this presentation. The press conference focused on presenting main functionalities, services and socioeconomic impact of this Competence Centre, on the society, in terms of generating employment and improving competitiveness by using the free software. Further information

QualiPSo proposes an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) tracking methodology

An Intellectual Property Rights Tracking framework and audit methodology is proposed to track rights and obligations during the whole development cycle of components based and collaboratively developed software. This methodology addresses basic issues of trust in contributors and contributions, integration in development environments, prototype software, etc. The objective is to look at the software development process from the legal perspective, in order to achieve software development with a controlled legal status, which is compliant with distribution and exploitation models of the software as defined by its editor(s)/developers. More information at Legal Issues at Qualipso