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Welcome to the Spanish Morfeo Qualipso Competence Centre Initiative
The QualiPSo consortium is aimed at helping industries and governments to fuel innovation and competitiveness by stimulating the use of low-cost, flexible, open source software to develop innovative and reliable information systems. In order to do this, it intends to define and implement the technologies, practices and policies that facilitate the development and use of such software, with the same level of accuracy and trust traditionally offered by proprietary software.
Within the QualiPSo consortium framework the goal of the competence centre is twofold: firstly, to take advantage of the results of QualiPSo both in technical terms (tools, platforms, etc.) and project experience, and secondly, to provide resources and support for open source software users, producers and consumers on quality-related topics, offering a set of basic services based on the results of QualiPSo consortium’s works.
The project, funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program, includes the GSyC/LibreSoft research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) and Telefonica I+D among its members. The MORFEO community, in which also the CETTICO group from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) acts as a permanent member of the Board of Direction, creates a link with the QualiPSo project through these three partners that are involved in the MORFEO community. This community will provide a knowledge base around a model associated with open source software and will provide enterprises with counselling on open source software-related issues.
Currently the QualiPSo consortium brings together 21 other partners in Europe, Brazil and China and is open to new members. The QualiPSo competence centre based in the MORFEO community, includes mechanisms for the adhesion of new members and will be strategically ruled trough its link with this community.
The negotiation round for the signing of the agreement that will start the competence centre is in a very advanced state and the services offered by the centre to the industry, the academia and the general public, trough the MORFEO community are supported by years of experience of the partners in this area.
