Dr. Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Dr. Etiel Petrinja, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano

Collocated with OSS 2010
Wednesday, 2010 June 2, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Participation in the Tutorial is included in the registration for the OSS 2010 Conference.

The aim of the QualiPSo project is to help industries and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness with trusted, low cost and flexible Free Open Source Software. It is a four year large European commission funded project (more than 17 mio Euro) that has started in year 2006. QualiPSo’s launch comes at a time when major industries have experienced the power of Free Open Source Software to accelerate the development of global, low-cost and reliable information systems, but are waiting for ultimate proof of trust to definitively commit to large-scale deployment. By providing the prerequisites for trust – from the legal, technical and business points of view – QualiPSo intends to definitely foster Free Open Source Software deployment for business competitiveness and growth, in areas such as e-government, media, telecoms, manufacturing, distribution and finance.

Program
The QualiPSo project includes different research and development domains, the key one will be presented inside the 4 hours tutorial, with a set of demos and classic presentations supported with slides. The topics presented will be:

INTRODUCTION to the project.

BUSINESS MODELS: Defining methods, development processes, and business models to facilitate the use of Free Open Source Software (FOSS).

INTEROPERABILITY: Set of test environments and qualified integration stacks to demonstrate FOSS interoperability across borders of any kind: technological, semantic and organizational.

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: Implementation of best practices in information management (source code, documentation, etc.) to improve the productivity of FOSS development and support.

TRUSTWORTHY RESULTS: The study of qualities that can sustain trust in Free Open Source components.

TRUSTWORTHY PROCESS: Development of a new Capability Maturity Model-like approach to assessing the quality of FLOSS.

NEXT GENERATION FORGE: The “QualiPSo Factory”, is an integrated next generation forge that facilitates and supports the development of viable industrial FOSS systems.

COMPETENCE CENTER: Development of a long lasting network of professionals caring for the quality of Free Open Source Software for enterprise computing. Six QualiPSo Competence Centres - running the collaborative platforms, tools and process developed in this project – are already set up to support the development, deployment and adoption of FOSS by private and public Information Systems Departments, large companies, SMEs, end users and ISVs. Of these Competence Centres, four are based in Europe (in Berlin, Madrid, Paris*, Rome), one in China, one in Brazil (São Paulo), and one in Japan.

Tutorial Presenters

Professor Sandro Morasca is Professor of Computer Science at the "Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione" of the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria in Como, Italy. In the past, he was an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the "Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione" of Politecnico di Milano in Milano, Italy. He was a Faculty Research Assistant and later a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland at College Park. Sandro Morasca has been carrying out research in the Software Engineering field in Empirical Software Engineering, Specification of Concurrent and Real-time Software Systems, and Software Verification, and has published about 20 journal papers and 60 conference papers. Sandro Morasca has been involved in a number of national and international projects. He has served on the PC of several international conferences. He has organized METRICS 2005 in Como as General Chair. Sandro Morasca is on the Editorial Board of "Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal."

Dr. Etiel Petrinja is Assistant Professor at the Faulty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano (Italy). He holds a PhD in the interdisciplinary area of Information Management and Engineering received from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2007. Previously, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana. He is involved in EU funded projects related to Open Source Software in which he applies non-invasive measurement approaches. He has been reviewer and member of the program committee in international conferences. His research areas include open source development, software engineering, non-invasive measurement, software interoperability, knowledge management. He is author of more than 20 papers published in international conferences and journals.