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 <h2>Abstracts
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 Conference Papers
 - Keynote<br>
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 <h3><a name="k1"></a>
 Should I adopt OpenOffice.org?</h3>
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       <td> Prof.Giancarlo Succi
 Free University of Bozen - Bolzano. Cospa Project
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 Often, a rather theological discussion is made on whether the
 OpenOffice.org Suite can be an effective substitute of the Microsoft
 Office Suite. While clearly no license fees are required to use
 OpenOffice.org, claims are made that there are other, more insidious
 costs to consider, rather than the simple license cost. The discussion
 is kept at a very high level of abstraction, complex enough to scare
 /regular/ users to think at migrations in either way. In the opinion of
 the speaker, the problem is not always straightforward and there is not
 a single, Boolean answer that applies in any context. However, it is
 possible to lay down a handful
 factors to consider in evaluating the
 costs of the migration and to use them as a guide in making informed
 decisions. Such factors define the comprehensive cost in adopting a
 tool, often called with the esoteric term "TCO" or Total Cost of
 Ownership. In the talk a manageable structure for the TCO of
 Office/OpenOffice.org is presented and sample case studies are
 discussed.
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       <td>Biography: Giancarlo
 Succi is Professor with Tenure at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen,
 Italy, where he directs the Center for Applied Software Engineering.
 Before joining the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, he has been
 Professor with Tenure at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta,
 Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta, and
 Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. He was also
 chairman of a small software company, EuTec.
 The research interest of Giancarlo Succi involve multiple areas of
 software engineering, including
       <ol type="a">
         <li>open source
 development - empirical studies of the evolution of open source
 projects, analysis of the structure of the market in presence of
 monopolies and open source products, tools supporting open source and
 agile methodologies; </li>
         <li>agile methodologies,
 with specific interest to the relationships of methodologies and
 practices, determining the scope of the application of the different
 agile methodologies; </li>
         <li>experimental software
 engineering, - measuring the effectiveness of so called "software best
 practices" using software metrics, standard statistical techniques,
 statistical meta-analysis and neural networks, with special attention
 to quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction; </li>
         <li>software engineering
 over the Internet - development of means to implement tools on demands
 (tools that can be downloaded from the Internet, rented on a "per-use"
 basis), distributed repositories of reusable software components,
 system for co-ordinating, managing, and accounting the work of
 distributed teams, web services and software engineering; </li>
         <li>software
 product lines and software reuse - when and how to establish a software
 product line and to use domain analysis and engineering to make the
 software product line cost effective, integrating a reuse policy inside
 a software development process under the perspectives of programming
 paradigm, process maturity, productivity, quality, legal issues, ...
         </li>
       </ol>
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 <a href="friday.html">Back</a><br>
 <h3><a name="k2"></a>E-education
 on the national level</h3>
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       <td>Bernard Herman, uni.
 dipl. ing. </td>
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     <tr class="b">
       <td>We will be speaking
 about legal, economical and technological aspects and the vision of
 e-education on the national level in Slovenia. We will stress the idea
 of an efficient production of didactic materials, training teachers and
 using free and open-source software in education. We will also talk
 about the necessity of establishing a center for knowledge exchange and
 user support, setting up reference schools in regions, preparing
 didactic materials on the basis of open-source aplications and a
 de-centralized aspect of integrating IT into school system. We will
 mention the activities of the OKO group, which started the plan to
 introduce free and open-source software into national educational
 system in 2003. We will finish off with an open discussion and an
 invitation for further involvement from the participants. </td>
     </tr>
     <tr style="font-style: italic;" class="b">
       <td>Biography: Bernard
 Herman, electrical engineer was born 1952 in Celje. In 1977 he
 completed his degree at the Faculty of electrical engineering in
 Ljubljana, where he studied automatics. After his diploma he took a
 post at Iskra Automatika, where he worked in software and hardware
 development for computer control devices for control and supervision
 industrial processes. In 1985 he took over the management of a project
 for the development of industrial computer systems for control
 machines, robots and technological processes. Together with his
 colleagues, he received a national award for inventions and
 improvements.<br>
 In the next few years, he worked as an adviser on industrial
 automatisation and informatisation. In 1997 he started his work in the
 Slovenian goverment, at the Ministry of Finance, where he worked on
 informatics, mostly in the area of establishing local and international
 communication networks. <br>
 In 2001 he started working for the Ministry of Education, Science and
 Sports, where he was the lead of the information infrastructure
 department. He continued his work in the area of IT in educational
 establishments. In 2003 he started a project of introducing open-source
 and free software into educational establishments and continued to work
 on IT in 2005, when he was appointed as the lead of a workgroup to
 prepare and analyze a report on the options of internet access for
 school textbooks. He is currently involved in research activities about
 the possibilities of collaboration between education establishments,
 business subjects, public administration and society in the area of
 using free and open-source solutions.
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	color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
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	<div id="startpage" class="app">
	<div class="h3" id="myprojects">
	<h2>Abstracts
	of
	Conference Papers
	- Keynote<br>
	</h2>
	<h3><a name="k1"></a>
	Should I adopt OpenOffice.org?</h3>
	</div>
	<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" width="100%">
	<tbody>
	<tr style="font-style: italic;" class="a">
	<td> Prof.Giancarlo Succi
	Free University of Bozen - Bolzano. Cospa Project
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="b">
	<td>
	Often, a rather theological discussion is made on whether the
	OpenOffice.org Suite can be an effective substitute of the Microsoft
	Office Suite. While clearly no license fees are required to use
	OpenOffice.org, claims are made that there are other, more insidious
	costs to consider, rather than the simple license cost. The discussion
	is kept at a very high level of abstraction, complex enough to scare
	/regular/ users to think at migrations in either way. In the opinion of
	the speaker, the problem is not always straightforward and there is not
	a single, Boolean answer that applies in any context. However, it is
	possible to lay down a handful
	factors to consider in evaluating the
	costs of the migration and to use them as a guide in making informed
	decisions. Such factors define the comprehensive cost in adopting a
	tool, often called with the esoteric term "TCO" or Total Cost of
	Ownership. In the talk a manageable structure for the TCO of
	Office/OpenOffice.org is presented and sample case studies are
	discussed.
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr style="font-style: italic;" class="a">
	<td>Biography: Giancarlo
	Succi is Professor with Tenure at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen,
	Italy, where he directs the Center for Applied Software Engineering.
	Before joining the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, he has been
	Professor with Tenure at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta,
	Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta, and
	Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. He was also
	chairman of a small software company, EuTec.
	The research interest of Giancarlo Succi involve multiple areas of
	software engineering, including
	<ol type="a">
	<li>open source
	development - empirical studies of the evolution of open source
	projects, analysis of the structure of the market in presence of
	monopolies and open source products, tools supporting open source and
	agile methodologies; </li>
	<li>agile methodologies,
	with specific interest to the relationships of methodologies and
	practices, determining the scope of the application of the different
	agile methodologies; </li>
	<li>experimental software
	engineering, - measuring the effectiveness of so called "software best
	practices" using software metrics, standard statistical techniques,
	statistical meta-analysis and neural networks, with special attention
	to quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction; </li>
	<li>software engineering
	over the Internet - development of means to implement tools on demands
	(tools that can be downloaded from the Internet, rented on a "per-use"
	basis), distributed repositories of reusable software components,
	system for co-ordinating, managing, and accounting the work of
	distributed teams, web services and software engineering; </li>
	<li>software
	product lines and software reuse - when and how to establish a software
	product line and to use domain analysis and engineering to make the
	software product line cost effective, integrating a reuse policy inside
	a software development process under the perspectives of programming
	paradigm, process maturity, productivity, quality, legal issues, ...
	</li>
	</ol>
	</td>
	</tr>
	</tbody>
	</table>
	<a href="friday.html">Back</a><br>
	<h3><a name="k2"></a>E-education
	on the national level</h3>
	<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" width="100%">
	<tbody>
	<tr style="font-style: italic;" class="a">
	<td>Bernard Herman, uni.
	dipl. ing. </td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="b">
	<td>We will be speaking
	about legal, economical and technological aspects and the vision of
	e-education on the national level in Slovenia. We will stress the idea
	of an efficient production of didactic materials, training teachers and
	using free and open-source software in education. We will also talk
	about the necessity of establishing a center for knowledge exchange and
	user support, setting up reference schools in regions, preparing
	didactic materials on the basis of open-source aplications and a
	de-centralized aspect of integrating IT into school system. We will
	mention the activities of the OKO group, which started the plan to
	introduce free and open-source software into national educational
	system in 2003. We will finish off with an open discussion and an
	invitation for further involvement from the participants. </td>
	</tr>
	<tr style="font-style: italic;" class="b">
	<td>Biography: Bernard
	Herman, electrical engineer was born 1952 in Celje. In 1977 he
	completed his degree at the Faculty of electrical engineering in
	Ljubljana, where he studied automatics. After his diploma he took a
	post at Iskra Automatika, where he worked in software and hardware
	development for computer control devices for control and supervision
	industrial processes. In 1985 he took over the management of a project
	for the development of industrial computer systems for control
	machines, robots and technological processes. Together with his
	colleagues, he received a national award for inventions and
	improvements.<br>
	In the next few years, he worked as an adviser on industrial
	automatisation and informatisation. In 1997 he started his work in the
	Slovenian goverment, at the Ministry of Finance, where he worked on
	informatics, mostly in the area of establishing local and international
	communication networks. <br>
	In 2001 he started working for the Ministry of Education, Science and
	Sports, where he was the lead of the information infrastructure
	department. He continued his work in the area of IT in educational
	establishments. In 2003 he started a project of introducing open-source
	and free software into educational establishments and continued to work
	on IT in 2005, when he was appointed as the lead of a workgroup to
	prepare and analyze a report on the options of internet access for
	school textbooks. He is currently involved in research activities about
	the possibilities of collaboration between education establishments,
	business subjects, public administration and society in the area of
	using free and open-source solutions.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</tbody>
	</table>
	<a href="friday.html">Back</a><br>
	<h3><a name="k3"></a></h3>
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