About the Kick off meeting

The first meeting of Train_os project was held in Badajoz, during the 13th and 14th of November. In this meeting, the structure of the project and the main objectives were tackled, moreover, a brainstorming session was done as a first step for the development of the methodology of the training needs.

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ACTIVITY II

Festival de Nuevas Tecnologías de Extremadura

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ACTIVITY III

The 2nd and the 3rd of July was held in Dornbirn (Austria) the Management Meeting of the Train_os project. The Committee counted with the participation of the main partners of the project: Fundecyt, OSALLIANCE, Internet Society (ISOC) Bulgaria, Fraunhofer IAO, Projects in Motion PIM, XLAB and TUBITAK-UEKAE. 

The core of the Committee was the revision of the schedule, the preliminar results from the questionnaires and the next steps to carry on.

ACTIVITY IV

TRAIN-OS participates in the Free Knowledge, Free Technology conference

The Free Knowledge, Free Technology conference took place from July 15th to 17th in Barcelona. The main theme of the conference was Education for a free information society.
The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first international event which will centre on the production and sharing of educational and training materials in the field of Free Software and Open Standards. With the objective of promoting Free Software and the sharing of free knowledge, the FKFT 2008 Conference will bring together hundreds of people from different continents including government representatives, school and university teachers, IT companies, publishers, and NGO's. By gathering together people from all these groups, we aim to stimulate both present and future collaboration between diverse disciplines, sectors and countries, through the medium of free software programs and the sharing of successful experiences related to free software and free technologies.

TRAIN-OS presented the project during the conference and submitted a paper for the proceedings. 

http://fkft.eu 

Free Knowledge, Free Technology Education for a free information society SELF International Conference 2008 First International Conference July 15-17, 2008 Barcelona, Spain

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Download the paper 'Training for Open Source: a need not a luxury' (pdf)

ACTIVITY V

The Train_os project has been presented in the Echallenges08. The goal of e-2008 was to stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs, and help open up the European Research Area (ERA) to the rest of the world.

Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE, this was the eighteenth in a series of annual technology research conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice in areas of applied Information Communication Technologies (ICT).