OSEwatch

Unglue is an initiative for books that could be tested within the FARM-Lab research, in the business model research part, to "unglue" usefull patents, by negotiating with owners of patents to by their patent entirely, and "unglue it". unglue.it aim in "ungluing" non-free contents by paying to have books under exclusive license to be "freed" Quote of their website : "What if you could give a book to everyone on earth? Get an ebook and read it on any device, in any format, forever? Give an ebook to your library, for them to share? Own DRM-free ebooks, legally? Read free ebooks, and know their creators had been fairly paid? " It works, and uses alternattive business model of crowdfunding to unglue. It couuld be used for hardware patents.

A paper by Lieven Trappeniers, Marc Roelands, Marc Godon, Johan Criel, Philippe Dobbelaere Bell Laboratories Alcatel-Lucent. Antwerpen, Belgium (lieven.trappeniers at alcatel-lucent.be):"With continuing trends towards miniaturization and lowpower connectivity, an abundance of connected smart objects - the Internet-of-Things [1] is expected to emerge. As a consequence, also the market for applications leveraging this swarm-of-nodes is huge. However, as traditional "operated" network infrastructure will gradually be complemented with these huge amounts of connected smart objects, a gap still exists for application enabling technology platforms.

The Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences project (DiYSE) aims at enabling ordinary people to easily create, setup and control applications in their smart living environments as well as in the public Internet-of-Things space, allowing them to leverage aware services and smart objects for obtaining highly personalised, social, interactive, flowing experiences at home and in the city.

Quote page 109 of this PDF It is now clear that users often innovate, and that they often freely reveal their innovations. But what about informal cooperation among users? What about organized cooperation in development of innovations and other matters? The answer is that both flourish among user-innovators. Informal user-to-user cooperation, such as assisting others to innovate, is common. Organized cooperation in which users interact within communi- ties, is also common. Innovation communities are often stocked with use- ful tools and infrastructure that increase the speed and effectiveness with which users can develop and test and diffuse their innovations.

"Scientific coordination of the FIRE EU Large-scale integrating project (IP) CONFINE on "Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet" (10/2011-9/2015) Scientific coordination of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing EMJD-DC (a 5 year contract starting in 2011/2012) Scientific coordination of the national research project Delfin: Self-adapting distributed systems for the Future Internet (TIN2010-20140-C03-01) Principal Investigator (PI) for Planetlab at UPC."

"I think we both understand that this is the key; "A further step would consist in setting up a more permanent collaboration mechanism (forum? Network?) for integration/coordination of efforts between different initiatives" The hard part is figuring out how it may be implemented so it brings together (the secretariats of) so many publicly funded initiatives; both in Europe and on other continents. E.g. Paradiso's terena's, geant's, NEM's, epractice's, global plaza's, etc, etc. Fundamentally, we have this problem with publicly funded initiatives that there is little coordination to be SEEN going on between NCP."

"During September and October, several academic institutions across Europe are hosting Information Days to explore the 'Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation' (CAPS) initiative, which will provide funding for research within call 10 of the workprogramme 2013 of the EU ICT programme (Objective ICT-2013.5.5).These information days will provide the opportunity for networking among participants and preparation of proposals among this call and objective."

very important, because there we can see who does what, what are the trends and "hidden" criterias...

- CollabCAD is lead by Indians : http://www.collabcad.com/technical_support.html - FreeCAD is lead by 2 germans (I presume, but I'm sure at least for one of them who's working for DaimlerChrysler and participating to FreeCADon his spare time) : http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Manual03/fr (search "lead" in the page)

"Lead developers of the FreeCAD project Jürgen Riegel Werner Mayer"

Imetric is a Swiss company that donated code or developer to help the FreeCAD CAD project

AMEPLM
Advanced Platform for Manufacturing Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management -Develop an open engineering platform based on existing tools and libraries, by special consideration of open-source software

"Computer-aided design (CAD), also known as computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) , is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer. CADD software, or environments, provides the user with input-tools for the purpose of streamlining design processes; drafting, documentation, and manufacturing processes. CADD output is often in the form of electronic files for print or machining operations. The development of CADD-based software is in direct correlation with the processes it seeks to economize; industry-based software (construction, manufacturing, etc.) typically uses vector-based (linear) environments whereas graphic-based software utilizes raster-based (pixelated) environments. "

AGRIXCHANGE
A common data exchange system for agricultural systems