August 20, 2008

Cosi

Dagstuhl workshop

From April 2 to 5, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08142 "Combining the Advantages of Product Lines and Open Source" (http://www.dagstuhl.de/08142) was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.
It was organised by COSI.



During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas can be found at: (http://drops.dagstuhl.de/portals/08142/)

Using open source software appears to be a profitable way to obtain good software. This is a result of several of its properties, ranging from effective feedback to the openness of the source. At a first glance open source and product line practices are conflicting.

= Activities =
The seminar was visited by 15 participants from the product line world and from open source communities. Most of them presented a position paper giving rise to a lot of discussion.

The position papers were divided in several sessions:
* Using open source practices in industrial software development
* Relationship with model driven development
* Use of open source software in product lines
* Business concerns

In addition several hours were spend on two discussion topics, selected during the first day of the seminar:
* tools and architecture
* practices and organisation

August 20, 2008 10:00 AM

July 02, 2008

Cosi

Special issue on Open Source Software and Product Lines

Call for papers
Special issue on Open Source Software and Product Lines
International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes (IJOSSP)
http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=7978

Editor-in-Chief: Stefan Koch, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

Description of the topic Embedded industries have invested a lot in the introduction of software product lines in their software development. In addition, using open source software appears to be a profitable way to obtain good software. This is also applicable for organizations doing product line engineering. On the other hand, because of the diverse use of open source software, product line development is an attractive way of working in open source communities. In fact, the configuration mechanisms used in open source communities are applicable within software product lines as well. In addition, product line organizations are usually involved in distributed development, which works very efficiently within open source communities.
At present, there is limited interaction between the open source and product line development communities. The aim for the workshop is to explore what the two communities can learn from each other and to develop a better understanding of how the two communities can benefit from each other.
The special issue features papers on the following issues:


* Variability and reuse management practices in open source development
* Ownership, control and management of product line assets in an open source community
* Advantages and drawbacks of openness in product lines
* Mixing closed and open architectures in a product line
* Product line requirements, roadmaps and planning in open source development
* Open source asset management tools in product line development
* The meaning of domain and application engineering in an open source context
* Recognition and recovery of a product line in an open source asset base
* Licensing issues, and how product line architecture is affected by different kinds of licences
* Dealing with risks when combining open source and product lines, such as liability, warranties, patent infringements etc.
* Collaborating on product lines between companies through open source
* Innovative forms of business relationships within a product line, through open source usage
* Product line Company experiences on interacting with and stimulation of a healthy open source community
* Opportunities and obstacles in adopting open source practices in product line development
* Company experiences of opening parts of product lines

Paper submission process

The Special issue solicits papers, which integrate aspects from both the software product line and open source software. We expect paper of about 5000 words. Papers should be sent to the guest editors, Frank van der Linden and Björn Lundell. General submission guidelines of the journal can be found at: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp

Important dates

* October 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for papers
* November 20, 2008 - Acceptance notification
* January 5, 2009 - Final paper due


Frank van der Linden
Philips Healthcare


Björn Lundell
University of Skövde


Indicative Publications

Pohl, K., Böckle, G., and Van der Linden, F. (2005) Software Product Line Engineering, Springer Verlag ISBN 3-540-24372-0
Ågerfalk, P.J., Fitzgerald, B., Lings, B., Lundell, B., O’Brien, L. and Thiel, S. (2006) Open Source in the Software Product Line: An Inevitable Trajectory?, In 1st International Workshop on Open Source Software and Product Lines, 22 August, Baltimore, Maryland, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/splc2006/Agerfalk_paper.pdf
Feller, J., Finnegan, P., Hayes, J. and Lundell, B. (2006) Business Models for Open Source Software: Towards a Mature Understanding of the Concept and its Implications for Practice, Panel in The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems, 8-10 June,
http://oss2006.dti.unimi.it/index.php?panels.html#BusinessModels.
Lundell, B., Lings, B., Ågerfalk, P. and Fitzgerald, B. (2006) The Distributed Open Source Software Development Model: Observations on Communication, Coordination and Control, In The 14th European Conference on Information Systems, Gothenburg, 12-14 June [ CD-ROM ].
Lundell, B., Lings, B. and Lindqvist, E. (2006) Perceptions and Uptake of Open Source in Swedish Organisations, In Damiani, E., Fitzgerald, B., Scacchi, W. and Scotto, M. (Eds.) Open Source Systems: IFIP Working Group 2.13 Foundation Conference on Open Source Software – The Second International Conference on Open Source Systems, Springer, pp. 151-163. [ This paper received a best conference paper award]

July 02, 2008 09:20 AM

May 13, 2008

Atenea

Atenea project meeting in Bilbao (Spain)

7th and 8th of May a meeting for Atenea project took place in the European Software Institute. Project partners met for building a common vision of future challenges in software architectures, middleware and tools for distributed systems taking as reference private, mobile, infrastructures and industrial scenarios.
Initial discussions on potential demonstrators were addressed as well as the planning for the year 2008.

May 13, 2008 08:00 PM

April 17, 2008

Osiris

OSIRIS presented at the annual “User-governed Innovation Arena” in Oslo April 2008

The Norwegian part of the OSIRIS project was presented at BIA-dagen on April 17th 2008 in Oslo. BIA-dagen is an annual event arranged by the Research Council of Norway. BIA stands for "Brukerstyrt Innovasjons-Arena" (User governed Innovation Arena). BIA-dagen is a meeting place for participants in R&D projects under the BIA program.
OSIRIS participants Knut Holmqvist and Arthur Reinertsen manned the OSIRIS stand, where they showed the tax card demo. Of the more than 300 persons present, many visited the OSIRIS stand, showing their interest for the OSIRIS technology.

April 17, 2008 06:30 PM

April 11, 2008

Cosi

GoOpen Conference in Oslo in April 2008

GoOpen, a conference about
- sharing,
- collaboration,
- freedom and
- innovation,
was arranged in Oslo, Norway April 8-9th 2008.

The conference gathered 500 participants from both private and public sector. Keynote speaker Zak Greant from the Mozilla Foundation devoted a great deal of his time to the survey "Adoption of Open Source Software in Norwegian Software Industry", performed by Research Fellow Øyvind Hauge, Researcher Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, and Professor Reidar Conradi at NTNU.
The survey will be presented at The 4th International Conference on Open Source Systems in Milano September 2008.

The most important findings are:
- Almost half of the Norwegian software industry integrates open source components into their own products. These products are used in all branches.
- More than 30 % of the respondents of the survey have more than 40 % of their revenue from open source related products and services.
- About 16 % of the companies participate in the development of open source software and about 5 % of the companies provide their own open source products.
- The screening process got 739 responses and the main survey received 95 responses.

April 11, 2008 08:40 AM

November 23, 2007

Cosi

New Master's Thesis about Open Source Software Business Models at Helsinki School of Economics

Juha-Pekka Juutilainen's master's thesis OSS Based Business Models in Commercial Companies has been submitted for review to Helsinki School of Economics department of Information System's Science. The thesis provides detailed and systematical analysis of business models existing in companies utilizing open source.

The research effort is a part of the COSI-project (Co-development using inner & Open source in Software Intensive products).

For more information, contact Juha-Pekka Juutilainen (juha-pekka.juutilainen at hse.fi)
The Master's thesis is available online for COSI-ITEA web pages.

OSS_Based_Business_Models_in_Commercial_Companies.pdf

November 23, 2007 04:30 PM

November 20, 2007

Cosi

COSI represented at Telecom I+D

Telecom I+D is a yearly conference sponsored and organized by mayor ICT suppliers and a university, the one belonging to the location each year.
A paper on the COSI project has been submited and accepted to be presented during the sesion taking place on Oct. 31.
The paper describes the COSI project in general terms and some of the results achived so far, and is written a (and has been presented) in spanish languaje..
It has had a good interest given the questions made at the end of the presention. Among others, the audience counted witha representative of the Spanish PA's.

The authors of the paper: Carlos Acuña, Fernando Usero, Josetxo Vicedo and Hugo Parada

November 20, 2007 03:40 PM

November 08, 2007

Osiris

1st COSIRIS Conference

COSIRIS (Co-operation for Open Source Infrastructure for Run-time Integration of Services) is an initiative which results from the collaboration between two ITEA R&D projects; COSI and OSIRIS. ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement) is a strategic pan-European programme for advanced pre-competitive R&D in software for Software-intensive Systems and Services.

COSIRIS aims both Open Source software engineering and platform issues. From its origins its has strong links with Calibration; the European industry forum on Libre/Open Source Software policy, initiated by CALIBRE coordinated action for libre software.

This is the first COSIRIS open event since projects started in the year 2005.


The place:

Valencia Conference Centre, in the framework of the 3rd gvSIG Conference:
the international user conference of opensource GIS users of gvSIG, thedesktop FLOSS GIS application of reference. Thanks to their organizers,the Organization  and Information Technology Service, Infrastructure and Transport Regional Ministry of the Valencia's regional government, Generalitat Valenciana, for their help and full support.


AGENDA





November 08, 2007 01:30 PM

October 24, 2007

Cosi

Master's thesis about Open Source Software License Decision accepted at Helsinki School of Economics

Anna Paajanen's Master's Thesis Open Source Software License Decision was accepted and awarded grade excellent. The thesis describes the factors influencing OSS license decision from company perspective. The master's thesis research was conducted as a part of COSI project.


See Thesis from this link

October 24, 2007 12:20 PM

September 28, 2007

Cosi

COSI represented at the SHARK/ADI Workshop at ICSE

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, May 26-27 2007.

A paper with the title "Experiences from representing software architecture in a large industrial project using model driven development" was presented by the author Anders Mattsson/Combitech at the second workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge - Architecture, rationale, and Design Intent 2007, that was held in concjuction with the 29th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007).

The paper presented results from the COSI case study performed by Combitech in cooperation with Högskolan i Skövde regarding architectural work practices in model-driven inner source development.

September 28, 2007 08:50 AM

September 04, 2007

Cosi

New Bachelor's Thesis published

A Bachelor's Thesis with a title "Stylebase for Eclipse. An open source tool to support the modeling of quality-driven software architecture" has been finished and published recently by Katja Henttonen, VTT.

Reference information:
Henttonen, Katja. 2007. Stylebase for Eclipse. An open source tool to support the modeling of quality-driven software architecture.
VTT, Espoo. 61 p. + app. 15 p. VTT Tiedotteita - Research Notes : 2387
ISBN 978-951-38-6925-0

Abstract:
Open source software has gained a lot of well-deserved attention during the last few years. Eclipse is one of the most successful open source communities providing an open development environment and an application lifecycle platform. Eclipse is a vendorneutral platform for integrating tools and services. My thesis work is a case study on
contributing to Eclipse. The contribution is a software architecture tool called Stylebase for Eclipse which is implemented as an extension a.k.a. plug-in to Eclipse.

Quality-driven architecture design is an approach to software architecture design which emphasizes the importance of qualities. Qualities are non-functional characteristics of a software system such as security or maintainability. Stylebase is a knowledge base of software patterns and architectural styles. It stores information that helps a software architect in selecting patterns that best support the desired quality goals. Stylebase for Eclipse is a tool for browsing and maintaining the stylebase. The purpose of the tool is to improve the quality of design and increase information sharing and re-use of
architectural models in development teams.

In the case study, the plug-in is first developed and, after that, a new open source community is formed around the plug-in project. In order to comply with the open source development model, modularity is treated as the most important non-functional requirement. In community building phase, efforts are concentrated on marketing the
new open source project and creating a good technical infrastructure for it.

The most interesting experiences gained during the study are related to various aspects of open source development. They are - among others - re-using code from other projects, licensing issues, tools to facilitate distributed development , and attracting new users and developers.

September 04, 2007 08:50 AM

July 16, 2007

Cosi

Inner Source and Knowledge Management

A paper "Support for Knowledge and Innovation Management in a Software Development Organization" discusses open source software portals from the knowledge management viewpoint and takes Nokia Inner Source portal as an example. The paper is published at Webist conference, 3-6 March, 2007 at Barcelona. http://www.webist.org/

July 16, 2007 09:20 AM

July 10, 2007

Osiris

Third International Conference on Open Source Systems (Limerick June 11-14 2007)

The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems was held in Limerick on June 11th-14th-2007, Ireland. There Osiris project members met to discuss the progress and demonstrators of the Osiris technology in different fields such us CRM, financial, tax applications, Home domain and Telco services in general. Some demonstrations will be presented during the next ITEA Symposium in Berlin on October 18th and 19th.

July 10, 2007 02:30 PM

Cosi

COSI represented at the workshop on TRUST 2007

Limerick, Ireland, June 14, 2007, results from an on-going investigation on Open Source in the embedded systems domain was reported at the International Workshop on Trust in Open Source Software (TOSS). This work is being conducted by researchers at the University of Skövde, in close collaboration with Combitech AB.

July 10, 2007 09:20 AM

July 03, 2007

Cosi

Networking with Nordic Open Source associations

June 28, 2007, the technical manager in the COSI project, Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, participated in an Open Source event organised in the Network for OSS in the Nordic Countries. The workshop was led by Mats Östling (SALAR) and participants included Barbara Held (IDABC) together with representatives from the five Nordic countries (Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden). The event gave excellent networking opportunities during which participants explored common interests.

The picture shows (from left to right) representatives for the Finnish, Swedish and Danish industrial Open Source associations: Petri Räsänen (founder and director of COSS, Finland), Björn Lundell (University of Skövde & chair of Open Source Sweden), and Morten Kjærsgaard (chair of the Danish Open Source Business Association, Denmark).

July 03, 2007 09:20 AM

June 29, 2007

Cosi

Panel on Open Source in Industrial Contexts

June 8, 2007, a panel was held on “Open Source in Industrial Contexts” at the 15th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2007), in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In addition to representatives from the three COSI partners: Philips Medical (Frank van der Linden), Nokia (Pentti Marttiin) and University of Skövde (Björn Lundell), the panel also had representatives from the project “O3C Business Models” (Joe Feller and Pat Finnegan, who are both active in this IRCHSS-funded project). The planning and preparation for the panel was seen to be an excellent networking opportunity for participants from the COSI and O3C projects. The panel session stimulated discussion and interaction both amongst the panel members and with members of the audience.

The picture shows (from left to right) the six panellists: Björn Lundell (University of Skövde, panel chair), Joseph Feller (University College Cork), Patrick Finnegan (University College Cork), Frank van der Linden (Philips Medical), Penttii Marttiin (Nokia), Patrick Finnegan (University College Cork), and Joseph Feller (University College Cork).

June 29, 2007 09:20 AM

May 20, 2007

Cosi

COSI representative elected as chair of Open Source Sweden

April, 2007, the technical manager in the COSI project, Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, has been elected as the first chair of Open Source Sweden, an industrial Swedish Open Source Association. With this development we can look forward to significantly improved networking opportunities between COSI and the Swedish Open Source industry.

May 20, 2007 09:20 AM

May 14, 2007

Osiris

The next OSIRIS meeting (June 13th, 14th, 15th)

The next scheduled OSIRIS meeting (June 13th, 14th, 15th) will take place in Limerick, Ireland. This workshop will be in parallel with the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems and Open Source Software and Product Lines 2007 (OSS 2007).





For more information, see: OSSPL07

May 14, 2007 10:30 AM

April 16, 2007

Cosi

Interaction between MORFEO, Qualipso and COSI

April 11, 2007, University of Skövde and Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid organised an open seminar on “Open Source Solution for Business Strategies (or Relationships)”, with participants from a number of Swedish Open Source organisations. During the seminar, Andrés Leonardo Martínez Ortiz, Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, presented an overview of the MORFEO and Qualipso projects. The seminar was held in an informal atmosphere and stimulated significant interaction amongst participants. Discussions followed related to specific experiences from and aspects of collaboration between work packages in COSI.

The picture shows Andrés during his presentation of the MORFEO project.

April 16, 2007 09:20 AM

March 27, 2007

Atenea

Event in Málaga

Atenea project was presentd during the last Cosiris event in Málaga to explore possibilities of colaboration in the future.
This first contact has provided the opportunity to discuss the relationship among the technolgy domains addressed by both inititatives.

March 27, 2007 08:10 PM

March 10, 2007

Cosi

COSI partner in WICSA2007 conference

WICSA 2007
The Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture took place 6-9 January 2007 in Mumbai, India.

A working session paper with a title:
"Role of Software Architecture in Open Source Communities" was presented in "emerging challenges" working session in the conference by the author Mari Matinlassi/VTT.

Software architecture has achieved a wellestablished and central role in software development. At the same time open source software development (OSSD) has emerged on the scene with more code centric approach. So far, the meaning of architecture in OSSD has not been revealed. This research studied the question by performing an inquiry in fifteen open source communities. The most important results of the inquiry were as follows. Structural viewpoint, i.e. components and relationships, is the most important viewpoint for open source developers. Architecture is
used for coarse grained or high-level architecture design and architecture is documented quite well, but documentation is out of date. Architecture is
documented for users and developers to understand the system. Communities design for modularity although evaluation of architecture quality is done implicitly without any special methods or tools.
Architecture cannot be explicitly seen as a communication element however, architecture guides acceptable changes in code.

March 10, 2007 01:00 PM

March 04, 2007

Cosi

COSI work package meetings at ESI (Bilbao)

From 26th of February to 2nd of March several meetings were held by COSI members at European Software Institute’s premises in Bilbao. Explotation and dissemination of the project results were two topics widely discussed during these meetings.



COSI members had very productive discussions regarding the work being done on the work package that addresses OS processes. First results from the project are becoming available and some time was spent discussing how to publish them. Each partner presented his proposal. Future work to be done in the work package was also defined.



Members from the work package 3, which addresses architecture topics with regard to OS, also met at ESI. Advances on the case studies were presented and possible future demos were discussed as well.

March 04, 2007 01:00 PM

February 16, 2007

Cosi

Workshop on Open Source Software and Product Lines

The COSI project is preparing a workshop on Open Source Software and Product Lines (OSSPL07), to be held in Limerick, Ireland.
The workshop is organised by Frank van der Linden (Philips Medical) and Björn Lundell (University of Skövde), and is co-located with the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2007).
The OSSPL07 workshop follows on from a previous workshop (OSSPL06) on the same topic,held during the 10th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2006) in Baltimore.

For more information, see:OSSPL07

February 16, 2007 04:40 PM

January 16, 2007

Osiris

OSIRIS and the second edition of gvSIG conferences

OSIRIS was invited to participate in a round table under the second edition of gvSIG conferences carried out in the Principe Felipe Science Museum in the City of the Arts and Sciences of Valencia, Spain. gvSIG is an open source tool for managing geographical information which integrates the common features of a Geographic Information System (GIS) as well as the features present in a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The outstanding progress of this open source project has provided the opportunity to discuss synergies and relevant collaboration opportunities.





January 16, 2007 01:00 PM

January 04, 2007

Cosi

COSI Malaga workshop

The COSI case study general workshop has been held in Málaga, Spain, from 13th to 15th, December of 2006, with an attendance of around 40 people. The morning of the first day was shared with OSIRIS ITEA project, some activities related to dissemination of results along with exploitation and demos were perfomed during that morning. These activities helped to leverage the inks between the two ITEA projects and are a needed step in the direction of the COSIRIS cluster.

Bjorn Lundell gave a very interesting presentation on IST CALIBRE inputs to COSI during the second day. Calibration was also present at this workshop with a presentation given by Frank van der Linden. Calibration is hosted right now by COSI website and is a part of COSI exploitation.

The rest of the workshop has been very useful in order to analyze and develop the 16 case studies,that are central to the project. With these case studies we intend to put in practice the knowledge gathered in the first phase of COSI (State of the art) and provide feedback to third phase, that will try to improve the results obtained in the state of the art. Some of the case studies apply to more than one workpackage. Thus the links among these workpackages will be improved.



In this workshop there were scheduled some time slots for parallel WorkPackage meetings that were very useful for continue working and planing the next milestones in each workpackage.









All COSI news

January 04, 2007 01:40 PM

November 30, 2006

Cosi

Interaction between work packages in COSI

Interaction between work packages in COSI

November 24, 2006, Matti Rossi and Pentti Marttiin organised a research seminar at Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. Participants at this seminar included researchers and practitioners from the COSI partners: Helsinki School of Economics, Nokia and University of Skövde. During the seminar Björn Lundell, University of Skövde gave the presentation “Open Source in industrial contexts: reflections from CALIBRE and COSI”. Discussions followed related to the conduct of case studies and aspects of collaboration between work packages in COSI.

November 30, 2006 12:40 PM

November 14, 2006

Cosi

COSI partner on Advisory Board for Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit 2007

COSI partner on Advisory Board for Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit 2007

November 6, 2006, the technical manager in the COSI project, Björn Lundell, University of Skövde has accepted an invitation by IDC Nordic to join the Advisory Board for Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit 2007. The Summit is to be organised by (IDC Nordic) and Computer Sweden in Stockholm, September 5, 2007.

November 14, 2006 12:50 PM

November 13, 2006

Cosi

COSI review - October 26, 2006

October 26, 2006, the afternoon, there was an ITEA review of the COSI project by ITEA.

Present from the COSI project was the PMT, Europartners office and Carl-Fredrik Sørensen. From ITEA side the following people were present at the review:


- Ronald Begeer, Philips, facilitator
- Daniel Pilaud, Polyspace
- Francisco Moya, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- Moreno Sioli, Italtel
- Rudolf Haggenmüller, ITEA chairman
- Antoine Pery, ITEA programme manager



The presentations covered an global overview of the project, a presentation for each work package, one for the open source survey and one for the connection to the results of the Calibre project.

Although the reviewers were happy with the results of the project they want to see in future more evidence of cooperation between the work packages, more explicit exploitation plans and an improved marketing relevance overview.

November 13, 2006 10:30 AM

October 16, 2006

Cosi

COSI represented at MoDELS 2006

Genoa, Italy, October 1-6, 2006, Anders Mattsson, Combitech AB presented COSI results stemming from joint work with researchers at the University of Skövde at the 9th International Conference, MoDELS 2006. The results are from an analysis of heterogeneous tool environments are published in the associated Conference Proceedings, which is available from Springer Verlag.

October 16, 2006 11:50 AM

September 22, 2006

Cosi

Open Seminar

Open Seminar

September 14, 2006 an Open Seminar was held on “Open Source in European and Swedish Industry” at the University of Skövde, Sweden. The seminar included a panel of representatives from the COSI project with an open discussion on opportunities and threats to Open Source in industry.



Attendees included practitioners and researchers from COSI partners and representatives from Swedish organisations. The COSI project manager, Frank van der Linden, Philips Medical, also gave a presentation on Open Source in European industry with a specific emphasis on experiences from the COSI project.



September 22, 2006 11:50 AM

September 20, 2006

Cosi

Networking with Swedish organisations

Networking with Swedish organisations

September 13-14, 2006, representatives from the COSI project management team held joint meetings with representatives from Swedish industry and public organisations interested in Open Source, in order to network and explore common interests.



September 20, 2006 11:50 AM

September 18, 2006

Cosi

COSI workshop on development process

COSI workshop on development process

September 12-13, 2006, the COSI work package on development process held a workshop at the University of Skövde, Sweden. The meeting made good progress, with 15 partners represented from the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. Parts of the workshop were organised in small groups and the pictures show discussions from two of these group sessions.










September 18, 2006 11:40 AM

August 01, 2006

Osiris

OSIRIS invited to CALIBRE

OSIRIS was invited to present during the international CALIBRE Workshop 3rd March 2006,at Skövde, Sweden. This international research and practice workshop has as main topic distributed development in the context of Open Source & Industry – Opportunities, Suspicions & Strategies.CALIBRE is an EU FP6 Co-ordination Action project, involving leading authorities on libre/open source software. CALIBRE 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...



August 01, 2006 02:00 PM

June 16, 2006

Cosi

COSI State of the art workshop

COSI "State of the art" workshop was held at Oulu, Finland on June 13-15 2006. The workshop act as a first milestone of the project. The first contributions of partners were presented. A set of provocative statements helped in creating an active dialogue between presenters and audience. Three work package meetings were held to discuss on specific business, process and architecture related issues: partner contributions, plans and new ideas.

COSI group photo was taken from the terrace of the conference room.




June 16, 2006 09:30 AM

April 05, 2006

Cosi

COSI presented at a MINE meeting

COSI presented at a MINE meeting

March 30, 2006, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, NTNU, presented an overview of the COSI project for a group of researchers at the 3rd NordForsk network meeting “MINE”, in Trondheim, Norway. The research network includes researchers and PhD students, representing six research institutions from Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway. During the meeting, contemporary issues addressed by the COSI project were discussed amongst researchers.




April 05, 2006 11:40 AM

February 20, 2006

Osiris

Osiris was presented at Cosi


Osiris was presented at Cosi (Co-development using inner & Open source in Software Intensive products) kick-off meeting on the 16th and 17th of January at Groenendaal Conference Center, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands. Cosi project addresses Open Source Software Engineering and business topics. There, both projects decided to cooperate under a cluster named as Cosiris (Cosi+Osiris) that is also acronym of Cooperation for Open Source Infrastructure for Run-time Integration of Services. Osiris will provide test cases to Cosi and Cosi will provide inputs to Osiris. A Planet site to support this cooperation is in progress.



February 20, 2006 11:20 AM

January 20, 2006

Cosi

COSI news about the kick off

January 17-19, 2006 in Groenedael, the Netherlands the COSI project
had its kick-off meeting. This meeting was delayed from the original
starting date, because in several countries funding started in 2006.
40 participants from 15 partners in 5 countries were present: Finland,
Norway, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Al tough the funding situation is not yet clear for all partners, also
people without granted funding were present.

The meeting was meant get to know each other better. In addition, many
discussions were held to get more clarity of the content, vision
deliverables and planning of the project.





January 20, 2006 10:50 AM

January 04, 2006

Osiris

OSIRIS invited to Hispalinux

OSIRIS was invited for a presentation during the annual Hispalinux (www.hispalinux.es) congress on December 2005 coorganized with the Madrid City Hall . Hispalinux, funded in 1997, is the largest open source association in spanish language with more than 7000 individual partners . The presentation was received with a great interest by the forum and provided the opportunity for an interesting round of questions and discussions.



January 04, 2006 09:20 AM

December 16, 2005

Osiris

OSIRIS Kickoff Meeting

On November 30th and December 1st & 2nd, 2005 Osiris kick-off meeting was held at Seville, Spain. There, previous and current related projects (OSMOSE, COSI, CALIBRE, MADAM, ARTS, Eclipse SOA Projects, PAPI, Lionshare, MAS WebServices Bus, VISR, OS4OS,Privilege & Ubisec, distrOS and Searchy) were presented and collaboration approaches with Calibre (Co-ordination action for Libre Software) and Cosi (Co-development using inner & Open source in Software Intensive products) running projects discussed.

December 16, 2005 04:30 PM

October 26, 2005

Osiris

General info about the project

OSIRIS is an ITEA project.
OSIRIS is an across-domain open source service platform that will provide support for services provisioning, aggregation, delivery, dynamic adaptation to the context and lifecycle management.
A system will be composed by implemented services that may evolve and change during the system lifecycle. As this is a continuous process, the system evolves on a regular basis. The SOA approach in OSIRIS platform will improve dramatically system integration through dynamic application composition, upgrade and enhancement.
The core building blocks of OSIRIS service platform are a set of middleware platforms, service composition technologies and infrastructure services. While the previous ITEA OSMOSE project has addressed component frameworks and middleware platforms, it does not provide core middleware platforms addressing interoperability at Web Service level with the broad range of communication requirements required for some services, infrastructure services and dynamic adaptation capabilities for composition, deployment and operation of services.

October 26, 2005 10:00 AM

October 11, 2005

Osiris

Welcome to itea-osiris.org

Welcome to OSIRIS website.Currently we are setting up the site. This will be a collaborative tool for all the partners in the project.

October 11, 2005 09:20 AM