OSIRIS Platform

The Norwegian part of the OSIRIS project was presented at BIA-dagen on April 17th 2008 in Oslo. BIA-dagen is an annual event arranged by the Research Council of Norway. BIA stands for "Brukerstyrt Innovasjons-Arena" (User governed Innovation Arena). BIA-dagen is a meeting place for participants in R&D projects under the BIA program.
OSIRIS participants Knut Holmqvist and Arthur Reinertsen manned the OSIRIS stand, where they showed the tax card demo. Of the more than 300 persons present, many visited the OSIRIS stand, showing their interest for the OSIRIS technology.

COSIRIS (Co-operation for Open Source Infrastructure for Run-time Integration of Services) is an initiative which results from the collaboration between two ITEA R&D projects; COSI and OSIRIS. ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement) is a strategic pan-European programme for advanced pre-competitive R&D in software for Software-intensive Systems and Services.

COSIRIS aims both Open Source software engineering and platform issues. From its origins its has strong links with Calibration; the European industry forum on Libre/Open Source Software policy, initiated by CALIBRE coordinated action for libre software.

This is the first COSIRIS open event since projects started in the year 2005.


The place:

Valencia Conference Centre, in the framework of the 3rd gvSIG Conference:
the international user conference of opensource GIS users of gvSIG, thedesktop FLOSS GIS application of reference. Thanks to their organizers,the Organization  and Information Technology Service, Infrastructure and Transport Regional Ministry of the Valencia's regional government, Generalitat Valenciana, for their help and full support.

The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems was held in Limerick on June 11th-14th-2007, Ireland. There Osiris project members met to discuss the progress and demonstrators of the Osiris technology in different fields such us CRM, financial, tax applications, Home domain and Telco services in general. Some demonstrations will be presented during the next ITEA Symposium in Berlin on October 18th and 19th.

The next scheduled OSIRIS meeting (June 13th, 14th, 15th) will take place in Limerick, Ireland. This workshop will be in parallel with the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems and Open Source Software and Product Lines 2007 (OSS 2007).

OSIRIS was invited to participate in a round table under the second edition of gvSIG conferences carried out in the Principe Felipe Science Museum in the City of the Arts and Sciences of Valencia, Spain. gvSIG is an open source tool for managing geographical information which integrates the common features of a Geographic Information System (GIS) as well as the features present in a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The outstanding progress of this open source project has provided the opportunity to discuss synergies and relevant collaboration opportunities.