Free Web Courses

The service E-OPENSOURCE.NET deals with popularizing e-learning courses in the field of the free software.

http://www.e-opensource.net/

Free Open Source Book Samples Free Open Source Book Samples

Free Open Source Book Samples

The spirit of Open Source was extended today with the news that a publishing company is paying royalties from each book they sell to the open source project it is written on.

You can explore more about Open Source Technology in the following web site:


http://www.packtpub.com/article/free-open-source-book-samples/fsm

Call for Papers about Open Innovation

The DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics)announce the call for papers about: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION

Participation in this event:

Participants who wish to present their research at the conference must upload a full paper (in PDF) not exceeding 10.000 words through the conference website www.druid.dk/celebration2008 no later than February 29, 2008.

http://www2.druid.dk/conferences/index.php?cf=29

The conference intends to map theoretical, empirical and methodological advances, further contribute with novel insights and stimulate civilized controversies in industrial dynamics. The parallel paper sessions will be organized around the following themes:

A. Opportunity Recognition and Development
B: Distributed Innovation and Search for Knowledge and Solutions
C: Mobility - Labor, Capital, Knowledge
D: Emergence and Growth of Markets and Industries
E. Technological Change and Development
F: Organizational Behavior and Corporate Strategy
G: Innovative Regions and Growth
H. IPR, Appropriability Regimes and Innovation
I: Networks and Projects: Knowledge Creation, Accumulation and Exchange
J: Localized Knowledge Pools, Global Knowledge Flows
K: Institutional Performance and Change
L: Creativity, Experimentation and Organization
M: Industry Evolution and Organizational Change
N: Complex Adaptive Systems.

SUPER COMPUTER'S OF COIMBRA UNIVERSITY WILL 'GIVE' MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION HOURS FOR PORTUGUESE SCIENCE

The supercomputer, which uses Sun Microsystems technology, is the largest computer calculation of Portuguese scientific and Portugal is already one of the biggest international projects in advanced computing.

The most powerful computational system for calculating scientific existing in Portugal 'distributed' approximately 3.5 million hours of time of calculation by 34 scientific projects related to the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry / Biophysics , Mathematics, Engineering and Chemical Engineering Informatics.

The total use of CPU requested by competitors in the competition for the allocation of time in the supercomputer Milipeia exceeded 5.6 million hours.



COIMBRA UNIVERSITY


SUN MICROSYSTEMS

STAY EVERYWHERE.....BE OPEN

Social Entrepreneurship

http://www.consultoriaemeducacaosocial.blogspot.com/

BE Entrepreneur...BE OPEN

III - Innovation Days 7-11 November in LISBON (FIL- Lisbon International Fair)

The ADI- Innovation Agency is organizing the III Days of Innovation with the triple aim of disseminating results of R & D, support the Economic Recovery of the results and dynamic partnerships and the establishment of synergies between entrepreneurs, researchers and investors.


III Days of Innovation will be place in Lisbon (FIL- Lisbon International Fair) - From 8 to 11 November 2007.




http://jornadas.adi.pt/



http://www.adi.pt/

Be present...Be Innovator....Be OPEN

UBUNTU..Free Debien derived Linux Operating System

Ubuntu is a community developed operating system adapted for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you can use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.



Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'

http://www.ubuntu.com/

LIFE IS FREEDOM....BE OPEN