Re: [Masterlibre-list] Invitation to GUADEC 28-31 of May 20065 in Stuttgart

[Anne Østergaard]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:47 +0100, Anne Østergaard wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:54 +0000, Cornelia Boldyreff wrote:
> > Anne,
> > thank you for the reminder. As we discussed, I'm happy to make a
> > presentation on this work as part of the panel that you're proposing at
> > GUADEC in May. I also think this is a good opportunity to hold a further
> > meeting of the group.
> > Cornelia
> 
> Thank you very much Cornelia.
> 
> I am looking for a short and flashy title for the official GUADEC
> program:
> 
> Draft title:
> 
> "University Degree in Libre Software available in Europe"
> 
> We also need an abstract:
> 
> Draft abstract:
> 
> "The MoLOS Project
> 
> A large group of universities in Europe is working together to establish
> a joint education and to offer a common Master Degree in Libre - and
> Open Source Software = The MoLOS Project.- 
> 
> The common goal being to make this education a global model to follow.
> To meet the growing demand from governments, public - and private
> administrations, education and health care sector, businesses and
> organizations to get experts with a deep understanding of Free- and Open
> Source Software. The benefits for the society are multiple. One example
> is the successful impact of the development- and collaboration model of
> Libre Software which can be a fine "tool" used not only in the software
> business but in other sectors as well."
> ---
> Please feel free to change both title and abstract compleately- if you
> find it usefull.

Now the time has come for publishing the program for GUADEC 6 in
Stuttgart.

The press release is out.

Please, ASAP I will need a short biography from you Cornelia, a photo
and a short abstract (if you want to change my draft).

I was thinking of us having an introduction of 25-30 minutes and then
members of the panel could explain very briefly where they are in the
process at there local university and we can all answer questions from
the audience.- Do you have comments to this procedure?

Those of you who need a formal invitation to attend please inform me
directly.( Francois I know you want one.)

I take it that apart from the GUADEC panel we are having a normal
meeting since so many of us are in Stuttgart for the GUADEC ocation.

This is considered a MoLOS Meeting. I will have to reserve a room soon. 

The evening before "user day" will probably be the traditional beer
party - but we could perhaps have our meeting on the day before, Monday
30th.

Many of you surely are interested in the technical program on Sunday and
Monday. You are naturally more than welcome to attend GUADEC all three
days. 

A professor from Germany will also be present and hopefully interested
in the MoLOS Project. 

Kind regards

Anne
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Anne
> 
>  
> > ---
> > Cornelia Boldyreff, Ph.D., FBCS
> > Professor of Software Engineering
> > Department of Computing and Informatics
> > Faculty of Technology (MHAC MC3119)
> > University of Lincoln
> > Brayford Pool
> > Lincoln LN6 7TS
> > www: http://hemswell.lincoln.ac.uk/~cboldyreff/
> > 
> > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, AnneØstergaard wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Invitation to GUADEC 28-31 of May 20065 in Stuttgart, Germany.
> > >
> > > ( A more formal invitation will be send to you personally when I know
> > > who will be attending GUADEC 6.)
> > >
> > > At the end of our last meeting in Barcelona I invited representatives
> > > from this group to inform about the MoLOS  project and the existing
> > > education on FLOSS at universities in Europe at our the next
> > >  international GNOME conference: GUADEC  6 in Stuttgart, May 28th -31st
> > > 2005
> > >
> > > http://www.gnome.org and
> > >
> > > http://www.guadec.org
> > >
> > > The conference starts on Sunday the 29 of May. Sunday and Monday will be
> > > reserved for technical presentations. The call for papers has  just
> > > ended and both the program and a press release is being send out soon.
> > >
> > > On the 31st of  May we are invited to give a presentation of MoLOS etc.
> > > I would suggest a presentation followed by a panel debate since we are
> > > so fortunate that  several  persons from the project will be present at
> > > the conference.
> > >
> > > I am willing to be the mediator of this panel. If  Cornelia Boldyreff
> > >  or Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona would be able to do the presentation it
> > > would be great.
> > >
> > > Who else would like to assist in the panel?
> > >
> > > I think that during the late afternoon on the 29th we could have a
> > > regular planning meeting of this group. Do you agree? Please tell us on
> > > this list if you are planning to attend.
> > >
> > > We could also have a BoF  and a table in the exhibition if someone for
> > > example from Spain would be there for at least some hours. Many Spanish
> > > speaking persons from South America would be very interested in advice.
> > >
> > > About GUADEC
> > >The MoLOS Project
> > > Last year 41 nations was participating in this GUADEC 5  in
> > > Kristiansand, Norway. Near the end of the conference we had a panel on
> > > the subject Free Software in schools. The result was a declaration of
> > >  co-laboration between countries and continents to share applicationsThe 
> > > MoLOS Project
> > > and work on what each country and system do best . To avoid doing the
> > > same work when the resources could be better used else where.
> > >
> > > This year is the year of GNOME on the desktop- signaling that Free
> > > Software and GNOME is for everybody.
> > >
> > > Day 3 of GUADEC is for developers, government representatives,
> > > businesses and users. We expect visitors from a large part of Germany to
> > > be there on this day as train connections from a large number of cities
> > > are very good. The "Haus der Wirtschaft" is in the center of Stuttgart
> > > some 8-10 minutes work from the Stuttgart central railway station. Many
> > > of the largest OSS Companies such as IBM and HP have there head quarter
> > > in the Stuttgart region. I think we want our signals to reach them.
> > > There employees are targets for university education in Libre Software
> > > and there marketing departments will be happy to tell that persons with
> > > a specially designed  education are on there way to government,
> > > organizations and businesses the moment they are migrating to Libre
> > > Software.
> > >
> > > Case stories and guidelines on migration.
> > >
> > > We are also interested in giving information and hopefully a
> > > presentation om migration guidelines . DE has one The EU Commission has
> > > one and please inform me of others that you know of . There is also A.
> > > Weelers " Why Free Software- Look at the numbers".
> > >
> > > City of Bergen in Norway and Deutsche Bahn, The German Railroad
> > >  Compagny ( 55.000 work stations.)
> > >
> > > Deutsche Bank uses Free Software on their servers.
> > >
> > > Software Patents:
> > >
> > > For your information we will also have an update on: " The Current
> > > Situation of The software Patents Directive" by Francois Pellegrini who
> > > will be there for The MOLOS activities.
> > >
> > > Many in our group are also involved working with patent issues.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Anne Østergaard
> > >
> > > Anne
> > >
> > > Anne Østergaard
> > > Member of the GNOME Foundation and
> > > the GUADEC 6th Planning Committee
> > > Vice - Chairman of IT-Politisk Forening, www.it-pol.dk
> > > address@hidden
> > > phone: + 45 35 42 88 73
> > >
> > > --
> > > Anne Østergaard <address@hidden>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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