The Qualipso project funded by the European Commission is establishing a world-wide network of Competence Centres, starting in early 2009 with four centres located in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and São Paulo (Brazil).

A new study by Forrester Consulting,by request from Bull, was brought up at the Open World Forum. This study notes a large growth of free software adoption in Europe and to the intention of several companies to increase usage of free software, pointing to a generalized tendency towards free software and reaffirming its professional potential. Several industry sectors were surveyed, such as business services, financial services, manufacturing, telecom and the governmental sector.

For those interested in learning the basics of free software and linux, an online course on gnu/linux (in Portuguese) will start on 09/15.

Ruby on Rails is a new software technology that alows the creation of flexible database-centered web systems with great ease. Lately, the CCSL at IME has been using this framework, which is free/open source software, in some projects, both for education and research.

The IME-USP FOSS Competence Center and the IndT (Nokia Institute odf Tecnology) promote at IME-USP, from 08-25 to 08-29, the Mobility Week with lectures and training on the platform maemo (languages C and Python).
The novelty will be the involvement of designers who will speak on design for software (mobile applications and open source).

Acoustic research at Universidade de São Paulo and presentation of the AcMus software Kolloquium am Institut für Technische Akustik der RWTH Aachen, 14.08.2008, 11:00 Vortragender Prof. Fernando Iazzetta, School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo

CCSL is to participate on the choice of the new Sun Ambassador at IME/USP.

Archimedes has been migrated to the Eclipse RCP.

IME/USP students attending the eXtreme Programming Laboratory course will work on CCSL projects.