Digitlab

Posted Tue, 2012-09-25 11:34 by admin

PSNC Digital Libraries Team prepared a dedicated distribution of a Linux system - DigitLab, that allows to digitalize printed materials, for example a book.

Digitlab is an especially adapted operational system based on Linux Ubuntu. The main aim of its creation was to create a complete system which can be used for collections digitization with the usage of free and widely available tools. The system was based on Ubuntu in version 12.04 LTS and prepared with a tool called Remastersys. It can be downloaded as an ISO image and tried by recording it on pendrive or DVD without the necessity of installation on the computer.

Maturity of open source project

Posted Tue, 2012-07-03 11:52 by admin

The Open Maturity Model (OMM), developed in QualiPSo project, is a CMMI-like process model for FLOSS development. This process model aims to help in building trust in development processes of companies using or producing FLOSS products.

Hack4Europe! 2012 – Copenhagen - 10–11 of May, Warsaw - 26-27 of May

Posted Wed, 2012-05-02 11:29 by alicja

Hack4Europe! is a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners and provide an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data for social and economic growth in Europe.

This year PSNC is coorganising two hackathons on 10 and 11 May 2012 at IT University in Copenhagen and on 26 and 27 May 2012 at National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw.

Presentation at conference "Rola innowacji projektów Open Source w polskiej gospodarce"

Posted Tue, 2011-11-08 13:47 by alicja

PSNC Competence Centre took part in the conference

"Rola innowacji projektów Open Source w polskiej gospodarce" (The role of innovation of open source projects in polish economy) that was held on September 27, 2011 r. in Warsaw.

The event was addressed to representatives of polish world of science, including universities, academic units, research and development centres, individual researchers as well as companies and institutions from business surroundings. The goal was to promote academic entrepreneurship and open innovation based on research and development results.

Presentation on open public data at Infobazy conference

Posted Tue, 2011-09-20 15:20 by admin

The "Infobazy" conference took place in Gdańsk and Sopot in Poland on September 5-7, 2011. The conference concerns different aspects of databases including infrastructure, tools as well as information resources.

Hackathon on poznan.pl open API

Posted Mon, 2011-09-19 15:09 by admin

The members of our Center and eGov team, Bartek Lewandowski and Darek Janny, are involved in organisation of the hackathon on the open data from the poznan.pl portal, which will take place on October, 3-5 at newly organized Poznan cooworking space - ZOO. The open API of Poznan city portal is available here.

Open Hardware License

Posted Tue, 2011-09-13 13:00 by admin

There is a next step in the open world. In September, European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has released version 1.1 of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to support knowledge and technology exchange across the electronic devices designers.
The CERN OHL was created to govern the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation, and the manufacture and distribution of products.

The license is published on the Open Hardware Repository (OHR), where designers can collaborate and share knowledge.

Etherpad Lite

Posted Fri, 2011-07-29 10:01 by arthooz

Some time ago we wrote about Etherpad – tool that allows collaborative editing of text documents in real time.

For a long period of time this project was nearly suspended – no new features were added and only a few changes were commited in the repository. However, recently a new, refreshed version of the tool, called EtherPad Lite, has been released. Because we use Etherpad in our competence centre and PSNC, we decided to respond to the request of authors and write a brief description of changes that it brings.

A way for collaborative text editing in your organisation

Posted Thu, 2011-07-28 13:47 by admin

Sometimes there is a need to quickly create a text note which requires input from many people at the same time. Very often for such a purpose use a text document, which is forwarded by email from one person to another, which is not a very effective way. For many years, there have been created many tools, which were not very usable. Just recently the popularity of social services and software as services solutions have made it possible to edit documents in distributed teams in real time. An example of such publicly available service is Goole Docs.

Presentation of the Center for guests from Cisco Systems

Posted Wed, 2011-02-02 13:23 by alicja

On 13-14 of January representatives of Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and Cisco System from Poland and US met in order to search of new areas of cooperation.

As Cisco is a long-standing participant in the open source community, one point on the meeting agenda was a presentation of the PSNC Open Source Center. The goal was to introduce the goals and activities of the Center in PSNC as well as the idea of the QualiPSo Competence Centres Network initiative.