Open Source News

1.10.2009

New seminar papers have been published: "Open source based tools for sharing and resuse of software architectural knowledge" in WICSA 2009.

26.08.2009

VTT participates in the first international free software conference in Kosova. You can see our presentation, along with many others, online.

10.12.2008

The material of the past Linux/OSS seminar has been published! If you didn't make it to the seminar, you can read the material here.

28.11.2008

Resource Availability Service project has been published on this VTT's open source server. RAS is being developed using model-driven open source development methods so also models and instructions for code generation are available!

9.10.2008

Free public seminar "Linux and open source as business oportunity" will be organized at VTT, Oulu on 23th of October. You can find invitation, full program and registration instructions here.

1.8.2008

VTT's open source tool chain for quality driven architecting will be demonstrated at SPLC2008 in September.

1.7.2008

The workshop of "Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software" (QACOS'08) is co-organized by VTT, University of Limerick and University of Skövde, in Turku Finland at 28 July - 1 August, 2008. Registration is now open!

15.2.2008

The VTT publication on Mzmine (open source bioinformatics toolkit) from 2006 is this month's Fast Breaking Paper in computer science. Read the news on ScienceWatch .

5.2.2008

A talk on the the Stylebase for Eclipse tool and the role of archictural knowledge in open source will be delivered at FOSDEM on 23th of February, 2008. FOSDEM is the leading European meeting of free and open source software developers.

1.2.2008

The workshop of "Quality and Architectural Concerns in Open Source Software" (QACOS'08) is co-organized by VTT, University of Limerick and University of Skövde, in Turku Finland at 28 July - 1 August, 2008. Call for papers is open until 7th of March.

4.1.2008

An Industrial Support Forum for Simantics (VTT's open source platform for industrial modeling and simulation) will be held on Wednesday, 16th of January 2008 at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Espoo, Otaniemi

20.11.2007

A newly published journal article includes one of VTT's open source projects (Stylebase for Eclipse) as a case study. Read "Integrability and extensibility evaluation from software architectural models - a case study".

15.10.2007

New term papers have been published: "Product Family Approach for Integration of In-house Software and Open Source Components" in OSS2007 and "Trustworthiness Evaluation and Testing of Open Source Components" in QSIC2007. See COSI publications list, for more information.

1.8.2007

Stylebase for Eclipse, one of VTT's open source projects, ranks Top 10 in SourceForge Community Choice Awards, category "Best new project". Official press release is available in Finnish.

10.6.2007

Open source related ITEA research project is under preparation. VTT is looking for Finnish industrial partners interested in open source and OSGi technology . Click on the 'research' link for more information.

1.6.2007

VTT organizes a public open source seminar on 15th of June in Oulu, Finland. See the seminar program online. There is no participation fee.

2.5.2007

New Open Source project: Fire Dynamics Simulator and Smokeview! Click on the 'software' link for more information.

2.1.2007

ITEA COSI project is continued until October 2008. The new VTT COSI website has been opened. Click on the 'research' link for more information.

20.4.2007

New research note available! Read Stylebase for Eclipse - an open source tool to support the modelling of quality-driven software architecture online.

25.3.2007

New seminar papers have been published: "Role of Software Architecture in Open Source Communities" in WICSA2007 and "Contributing to Eclipse - A Case Study" in SE2007. See COSI publications list, for more information.

1.3.2007

VTT participates in "Open Network of Innovation" -project! Click on the 'software' link for more information.

1.12.2006

VTT organizes a public open source seminar on 6th of December in Oulu, Finland . See the seminar program online. There is no participation fee.

18.11.2006

VTT becomes a member of Eclipse Foundation. Official press release is available in English and Finnish.

25.10.2006

VTT participated and sponsored the OpenMind event, which is an annual international conference on open source and open business models. The event took place in Tampere, Finland.

16.10.2006

New Open Source project: Stylebase for Eclipse! Click on the 'software' link for more information.

29.11.2005

New Open Source project: PAN-NET! Click on the 'software' link for more information.

1.8.2005

VTT participates in ITEA COSI project which studies industrial usage of open source software. The project VTT's tasks focus on integration and quality evaluation of open and inner source software. The research period extends from September 2005 to December 2006. Click on the 'research' link for more information.

2.1.2005

New Open Source project: MZ-MINE! Click on the 'software' link for more information. Read also a related bioinformatics article online.

27.2.2004

New Open Source project: PDA-OVM! Click on the 'software' link for more information.

15.05.2003

VTT's Open Source activities have hit the headlines in various media in Finland. Official press release is available here in English and Finnish.

12.05.2003

Mailing list manager up and running! Use this link to subscribe to various lists: http://opensource.erve.vtt.fi/mailman/listinfo

04.05.2003

VTT's open source server up and running!

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