Summer school bz_fp7research_20100708

Editor's Notes

1. Free / Open Source software (OSS) in European ICT research. Why is Open Source good for research? there are several reasons, and saving on licence costs is not the most important. European Union is funding research on OSS-specific issues, like community development process, collaboration tools, etc. Moreover, most research project which address unrelated areas release their results as open source. This is considered a very important trend, as is allows easy reuse and dissemination of research results at all levels. The presentation addresses the structure of EU research programmes, explaining the opportunities for funding, and the main EU policy activities related to open source and open standards.
2. The specific programme on 'Cooperation' supports all types of research activities carried out by different research bodies in trans-national cooperation and aims to gain or consolidate leadership in key scientific and technology areas. FP7 allocates EUR 32 413 million to the Cooperation programme. The budget will be devoted to supporting cooperation between universities, industry, research centres and public authorities throughout the EU and beyond. The Cooperation programme is sub-divided into ten distinct themes. Each theme is operationally autonomous but aims to maintain coherence within the Cooperation Programme and allowing for joint activities cutting across different themes, through, for example, joint calls. Ideas: Investigator-driven ‘ frontier research ’, within the framework of activities commonly understood as ‘basic research’ The 'Marie Curie Actions' have long been one of the most popular and appreciated features of the Community Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development. They have developed significantly in orientation over time, from a pure mobility fellowships programme to a programme dedicated to stimulating researchers' career development. Capacities programme aim to enhance research and innovation capacities throughout Europe and ensure their optimal use. The Capacities programme is provided with a budget of EUR 4 097 million to operate in seven broad areas: * Research infrastructures * Research for the benefit of SMEs * Regions of knowledge and support for regional research-driven clusters * Research potential of Convergence Regions * Science in society * Support to the coherent development of research policies * International cooperation
3. Discuss how main advantage of open source software for research is flexibility and speed of implementation OSS source is there for everybody to see, bad code cannot be hidden OSS allows to experiment with different solutions “hands on” and then select the best one. What if you want to do the same with expensive commercial software? OSS allows also to do changes to a product! This is of course very important for research
4. Discuss how main advantage of open source software (OSS) is flexibility and speed of implementation
5. After the introduction, one step back OSS brings many advantages in the research domain: it is easy to experiment! Example: STREAM project has reused BOREALIS OSS stream processing engine which was not maintained anymore - they just downloaded and fixed it
6. Many research projects are perfect examples of bad practices
7. This is an example of how the European Commission finances research on Open Source
8. This is an example of how the European Commission finances research on Open Source
9. These are some projects currently ongoing in INFSO D 3 unit A software forge is a collaboration platform allowing collaborative software development over the Internet
10. mOSAIC’s objective is to progress the state-of-the-art in Cloud computing by creating, promoting and exploiting an open-source Cloud API and platform targeted for developing multi-Cloud oriented applications. To fulfil this aim mOSAIC’s team will: design a language- and platform-agnostic application programming interface for using multi-Cloud resources and Cloud usage patterns; design Cloud ontology; conceptualize, and implement user-centric service level agreements and mechanisms for dynamic negotiation of resources based on agent technologies and semantic data processing; design a generic agent skeleton for representing stakeholders, e.g. Cloud vendors and their resources, and Cloud users; build an open-source and portable platform for using Cloud services based on the proposed API; build proof-of-concept applications using the platform. The project results will be materialize in an API that allows programming Cloud applications independent from vendor resources, a platform including the solutions to the current Cloud challenges, and applications as proof-ofthe- concept for platform usability. A special attention will be given to the applications that are data-intensive. In this context the Earth Observation community is strongly involved in the platform testing. For the end-users, mOSAIC will provide transparent and simple access to resources and avoidance of lock-in to proprietary solutions. For users as developers, it will provide a consistent, uniform and lightweight API, independent of a particular development language and platform as well as implementations for important languages. For users as administrators, it will offer easily manageable applications, virtual appliances and virtualised resources and the usage of community accepted technologies. For users as providers, it will allow new providers to offer similar services as the existing ones. ====================================== The WAX project will define and deliver an Open Source Platform for the Future Internet, that will enable applications and services to be used and shared consistently and securely over a broad spectrum of converged, connected multi-devices, including mobile, PC, home media (TV) or automotive. Promoting a “single service for every device" vision, WAX will move the existing baseline from ad-hoc software to services, ensuring that the technologies for describing, negotiating and adapting to context are fit for purpose. WAX will also directly address the Quality of Service issues with a focus on the security issues that will challenge the uptake of up web-based applications: that is how to protect data, and preserve user trust in the physically and socially interconnected world of Web 2.0, where data sits in the “nebulous” cloud rather than locally on device. Context and security are intimately intertwined: rich context is valuable but without user empowered security it becomes a liability. WAX will boost the EU industry migration towards web-based application frameworks as services - already started but driven at present more by US companies rather than EU. WAX can counteract this providing standardised, open source technology with scale, an EU asset can be established with direct commercially exploitable value for consortium members (and wider) as well as acting as industry catalyst to encourage collaboration and discourage fragmentation in this space. The timing for such an initiative is critical Android gains market traction by the day, whilst Symbian, the only credible EU OS offering, is in a state of rapid decline. There are strong industry moves towards Internet friendly and Internet integrated offerings, and there exists a small window of opportunity for an EU led consortium to place this WebOS technology on a robust open foundation that will remove economic barriers to engagement (benefit to EU companies and benefiting EUs technical competitiveness).
11. Some details about ALERT: A project “fiche” Expected scientific results
12. The chart of the basic idea + distribution of activities among partners
13. Some details about ALERT: A project “fiche” Expected scientific results
14. What is EDA? Search on Google, and you will find the “digital agenda communication” A set of coordinated actions in the ICT related areas At this moment, it is a “communication”, that is a statement of what EC intends to do.
15. Research in EDA: - New overall strategy - Pre-commercial procurement and public-private partnerships - Push for open platforms