Projects

EU-funded Projects

The group is currently involved or it has participated in several EU-funded research projects. The most important examples are:

* FLOSS [13] (2000-2001): it was one of the first large public-funded studies on libre software. Among other relevant outcomes, it included the results from a survey about profiles of FLOSS developers. This results contributed, for instance, to eliminate the myth that libre software is mostly developed by teenagers.

* CALIBRE [14] (2004-2006): CALIBRE was an EU FP6 Co-ordination Action project, involving the 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.  It aimed to coordinate the study of the characteristics of open source software projects, products and processes; distributed development; and agile methods. As well, this project fostered integration and coordination of these research activities to address key objectives for open platforms, such as transferring lessons derived from open source software development to conventional development and agile methods, and vice versa.

* FLOSSMetrics [15] (2007-2009): The main objective of FLOSSMETRICS is to construct, publish and analyse a large scale database with information and metrics about libre software development coming from several thousands of software projects, using existing methodologies, and tools already developed. The project will also provide a public platform for validation and industrial exploitation of results

* QualiPSo [16] (2007-2010): industrial-oriented EU project with 50 parters including industry (Siemens, Telefonica I+D, Thales, Atos Origin, Engineering...), academia (up to 12 universities) and public bodies.
* QUALOSS [17] (2007-2009): Project with the goal of measuring the quality of libre software projects, especially regarding evolvability and robustness.

* FLOSSWorld [18] (2006-2007): Impact of libre software in various countries around the world (up to 15 countries were studied: China,
Argentina, Bulgaria, ...)

* FLOSSInclude [19] (2008-2009): follow-up of the FLOSSWorld project.

* BEinGRID, Business Experiments in GRID [20]: BEinGRID is the European Union's largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research, part of the EU's sixth research Framework Programme (FP6). GSyC/LibreSoft has participated in the building and assessment of a distributed multi-player gaming application posting environment that enables network-centric Application Service Providers (ASP) to deploy and manage their services in secure and accountable ways.

Industry Projects

The group has also some projects with industry, among which the most important ones are:

* OSO-R Forge [21] (2007-10): OSO-R is the Open Source Observatory Repository and consists in a 24h-365d-available forge for the use of European public administrations. Due to this, the group counts with some members specialized in forges (Gforge) and high-availability systems.

* Morfeo [22] (2004-10): lead by Telefonica I+D, Morfeo is an industrial consortium with the aim of promoting libre software among the Spanish industry. GSyC/LibreSoft collaborates in several tasks, mainly the maintenance of the Morfeo Forge, education, consultancy and some minor developments.

* Infojobs - Affiliate Program (2007-8) [23]: The project aims to create an affiliate program for Infojobs to have greater visibility in the Internet World. Technologies used include Django, REST API and Javascript.

* Infojobs - Reputation Program (2007-8): The project aims to create a website that generates a new reputation/karma for users based on information from third webs such as Barrapunto, Meneame, YouTube, Ebay... Technologies used: Django, REST API and Javascript.

* Vulcano (2007-9) [24]: Promotion of the development of libre software in an environment of quality and trust adapting methodologies, processes, business models and latest technologies. We have worked in the first forge of new generation called EzForge [25].

* Open Health (2008-9): The project aims is develop remote support services for chronic patients who require frequent visits to a hospital, health center, or who are in a state of dependency of families, caregivers, or social services through the use of mobile technology.

* Mobile Social Network (2007-9): The project aims to research the social networks in the field of mobile devices. We use Android (Java) and Nokia (Python) devices for this study.

* Social Network Games (2008): Development of an open platform for developing next generation of vertical social networks in the Mobile gaming sector.

* Vodafone R&D (2004-5): Consultancy on the use of libre software by Vodafone.