Category Archives: CALIBRE project

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

Posted on 10/03/2006 by Olivier Berger

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

Posted on 9/03/2006 by Olivier Berger

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

Posted on 9/03/2006 by Olivier Berger

In his presentation “Measuring developer activity. Motivation and some approaches“, our collegue Juan Jos 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

Posted on 3/03/2006 by Olivier Berger

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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WSL2006 : Extended deadline for CFP for Workshop Free Software in Porto Alegre : 2006/02/27

Posted on 20/02/2006 by Olivier Berger

The deadline for the Call For Papers for the Workshop Free Software (WSL 2006) held in Porto Alegre (Brazil) during FISL 7 has been extended to 27th of february 2006. Take your chance to meet actors of the largest free … Continue reading →

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CFP WFS2006 – 7th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FREE SOFTWARE – Porto Alegre (Brazil)

Posted on 17/01/2006 by Olivier Berger

Here is the call for paper for the 7th International Workshop on Free Software (WFS2006) which will be held in Porto Alegre in april 2006 (permanent address of this CFP : http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/?q=en/node/88). CFP issued on 2006/01/16. I’ll be chairing the … Continue reading →

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7th International Free Software Forum in Porto Alegre

Posted on 9/12/2005 by Olivier Berger

The next edition of the Free Software Forum will happen on 19, 20, 21 and 22 of April 2006 in Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. This is a great event for the Brasilian libre software community, which will be of interest … Continue reading →

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CFP ObjectWebCon06

Posted on 10/11/2005 by Olivier Berger

The next ObjectWeb conference is announced for January 31 – February 2, 2006. Franois Letellier (his blog : here) asked me to forward the CFP for the conference. Here is a copy of the announcement : ObjectWebCon06, the next ObjectWeb … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM again in 2006

Posted on 4/11/2005 by Olivier Berger

FOSDEM (Free and OpenSource Software Developers European Meeting) will happen again in 2006, the last week-end of february in Brussels. I expect it to be once again one of the best events for developers and other people interested in the … Continue reading →

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Updated Planet Calibre to add Calibre project’s news feed

Posted on 7/10/2005 by Olivier Berger

The Calibre Project has a new website, which integrates a news feed as RSS. I updated the agregated feed “Planet Calibre” to add this new official feed (in addition to those of weblogs of participants to the project).

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Upgrade issue on Libre Software study issued

Posted on 1/08/2005 by Olivier Berger

Just to let you know that a special issue of the Upgrade magazine has just been issued, with a special focus on Libre Software as a field of study. Read it online.

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Free maps of … the world ? … uh, Genova

Posted on 20/07/2005 by Olivier Berger

I’m a contributor to the UPCT project whose goal is to produce free geographical data, aka free maps of the world. I try to collect GPS data whenever I travel, and so did I for my recent trip to Genova … Continue reading →

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Slides of Open Educational Symposium at OSS2005

Posted on 18/07/2005 by Olivier Berger

I’ve collected slides from the speakers of the Open Educational Symposium at OSS2005… Update : They have been added to the page on the conference’s site, but are still available at : http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/~olberger/OpenEducationalSymposium/OpenEducationalSymposium.html. A report from this symposium will come … Continue reading →

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Slides of our paper at OSS2005

Posted on 18/07/2005 by Olivier Berger

I’m back from OSS2005 in Genova (more detailed report to come), where I’ve presented our paper “Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?”. Here are the slides I’ve presented in the … Continue reading →

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Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?

Posted on 9/06/2005 by Olivier Berger

In the paper titled “Why and how-to contribute to libre software when you integrate them into an in-house application ?” (which is now available online), to be published in the forecoming proceedings of the OSS2005 conference (Genova, Italy, 11-15 july … Continue reading →

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