Home

CREDIL - Implementing technical innovations via the Co-make strategy.

"Make or buy?" is the usual question for organizations (sponsors) thinking of implementing technical innovations in how they operate. CREDIL -- Center for Research and Experimental Development in Informatics Libre -- offers another choice. CREDIL provides a clearing-house to bring together those wanting informatics solutions with "makers" who know how to deploy and modify free/libre software and ideas to co-make innovative products and services.

The value proposition: by building on an existing, huge base of well-tested software and ideas, sponsors pay only for the development -- chiefly modifications to known technology -- needed to achieve their goals, and they can contract for part-time services of several makers in proportion to needs using CREDIL. The free/libre pool of contributors is repaid via the submission of developed materials back to the pool. These materials are the tools to create the products and services the sponsor uses to generate revenue.

Latest news

CREDIL: CREDIL update
What's up with CREDIL?
Added by Christian Meloche 103 days ago

CREDIL: Lancement cet automne et mission accomplie !
Notre lancement approche rapidement et nous avons déjà des succès intéressant.
Added by Christian Meloche 222 days ago

CREDIL: Fall launch & mission success!
We are preparing for the official launch but already our we yield tangible success.
Added by Christian Meloche 222 days ago

CREDIL: Event was a success / l'événement fût un succès!
La salle était pleine, nous avons même manqué de siège The room was full we even ran out of seats
Added by Christian Meloche 282 days ago

CREDIL: Notre première réunion publique et Richard Stallman
On fait les choses en grand au CREDIL, pour notre première réunion publique où nous présenterons le Centre et espérant recruter de nouveaux membres, nous aurons nul autre que le fondateur de la Free Software Foundation comme invité !
Added by Christian Meloche 286 days ago

View all news

Latest projects

  • gsoc (03/04/2010 08:17 PM)

    Google Summer of Code is at http://code.google.com/soc/
    CREDIL is a research institute that deals with open source, and so we participate in the Google Summer of Code.

  • credil-redmine (09/11/2009 03:30 PM)

    This is a public repository of the changes that CREDIL has done to its redmine installation.

  • CREDIL (04/07/2009 01:25 PM)

    Free Software is taking the computer industry to its maturity. Like the construction industry it will be profitable and will have to follow free market rules. CREDIL wants to be the leader in this revolution by developing the basic material needed for the new knowledge economy.

  • Peephole Public (03/31/2009 02:05 PM)

    A D-Bus service that abstracts access to segmented or matrix LCD displays.

    While all the code we write is free software, some projects are not mature enough to be released to the public.
    Peephole, however should be released to the world soon.

  • Librophone Public (03/31/2009 02:02 PM)

    A simple audio recorder appliance used in public audiences in a court like setting. The product is controlled via a Pico LCD screen equipped with buttons. (see the peephole project)

    While all the code we write is free software, some projects are not mature enough to be released to the public.