Monthly Archives: March 2006

Accepted papers for International track of WFS 2006 in Porto Alegre

Here is the list of papers (with abstracts, in random order) we have accepted for the International track of the forecoming Workshop on Libre Software during the FISL in Porto Alegre (Brazil), betw. 19th and 2st of april.Congratulations to the … Continue reading

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Share your keyboard and mouse between several computers : synergy

I just wanted to signal one very cool tool : synergy. It will allow you to share your mouse and keyboard between two computers. For example, I have a desktop and a laptop. Sometimes I have to work on the … Continue reading

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Wiki Picolibre de retour sur la toile

Le wiki de Picolibre a subi une panne indépendante de sa volonté. Il est de retour (en lecture seule pour les non-membres du projet) sur http://proget.int-evry.fr/portail/TwikiPage&wikiweb=Pftcr.Picolibre&wikipage=WebHome, hébergé sur la plate-forme ProGET (laquelle représente un point de référence actuel pour le … Continue reading

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Motivation for contribution to libre software projects instead of free-riding

We have tried and emphasize the strategy that organisations can adopt with respect to the maintainability of the in-house applications based on libre software, in a previous paper. We profess that contribution is in no way mandatory, and free-riding is … Continue reading

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Quality Assurance on Debian : 2 interesting talks at FOSDEM

I’ve noticed two interesting talks made at the FOSDEM recently about QA on the Debian project (well, second one, not especially focused on Debian, but Martin speaks from experience with the Debian project of course), whose slides, I think, are … Continue reading

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Monitoring developper’s activity to draw figures for estimation of effort and developpers productivity

In his presentation “Measuring developer activity. Motivation and some approaches“, our collegue Juan José Amor from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos introduced an attempt to use some new tools to monitor Libre (or not) developper’s activity. The goal is to be … Continue reading

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A developper’s HOWTO for researchers surveying FLOSS

Here’s an interesting HOWTO Wouter Verhelst has written to give advices to researchers studying Libre Software. I hope his guidelines don’t apply to research done by my collegues … anyway, I thought it was worth mentioning it in Planet Floss … Continue reading

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