<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Israel Herraiz</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Juan Jose Amor</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alvaro del Castillo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Libre Software for Research</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">UPGRADE - The European Journal for the Informatics Professional</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">framework programme</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">free software</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">libre software</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">open source</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">research</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">research management</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12/2007</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.cepis.org/upgrade/index.jsp?p=0&n=2158&a=3068</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">VIII</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">22–26</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Traditionally, research projects tend to be less than transparent, only showing to the public selected deliverables but no internal information. Normally no information about how the research project is progressing is available as public data. Even the partners of the project tend to be unaware of how the other partners are getting on. In this respect, research projects are similar to traditional software development projects. Research projects in the field of Information Society Technologies share some features with libre (free / open source) software projects, such as global distributed development and the possibility of teleworking. In the light of the above, in this paper we present a proposal to manage research projects, adopting methods used in the libre software community, and using libre software tools. Our methodology facilitates communication flows between the various partners of the project, even if they are geographically dispersed, and also allows selected internal information to be shared with the general public. Furthermore, by adopting this methodology, several additional possibilities arise, among which are automated public activity reports, project progress analyses, and technological watching and foresight techniques. We firmly believe that this new approach to managing research projects presents a number of advantages over traditional organization methods, and may improve the performance of research projects.
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