CREDIL

We have been very busy, the number of active worker members in our lab has increased. We now have 5 people, we rented extra space, so now we have 3 offices and a small lab. We still do multimedia embedded work, but since September, we are also busy working with Google Android on what will be the world's first Mobile Video Telephony application.

So what about the media launch we were going to do in September? We have not given up, we will do one, in fact we did meet with the City and the local Business Development Centre, and they suggested that given our Android work, we would make a much bigger splash with the media once our project is released.

In the mean time we are working on a website to recruit maker members and we are working on having new sponsors as well.

Lancement

J'ai déjà eu plusieurs rencontre avec la ville de Gatineau et le CLD, et nous avons une excellente coopération. J'ai une autre rencontre le 7 août. La date du lancement sera entre le 15 septembre et le 4 octobre et ce sera à la Maison du Citoyen de Gatineau. Nous allons avoir besoin de l'aide de tous pour passer le mot pour obtenir un maximum de participants et de média à l'évènement. Notre objectif cette fois-ci c'est d'attirer des membres du monde des affaires qui serait potentiellement intéressé a innover avec nous.

Projets

Nous disons toujours que notre travail ajoute de la valeur à nos entreprises membres et que l'innovation est vitale pour la santé des entreprises. Aujourd'hui nous avons un exemple concret: Un de nos membres viens d'attirer l'attention d'un gros client a cause de la technologie que nous avons élaborée pour lui. Alors que l'intention initiale était d'améliorer la livraison d'un service, notre membre réalise maintenant que l'innovation technologique attire autant l'attention que le meilleur service rendu. Le media est le message!

En parlant de projets, nous avons plusieurs demandes dans le domaine de la téléphonie, nous avons plusieurs projets sur la table et nous espérons compléter le financement sous peu pour monter une équipe.

Nous essayons toujours de créer aussi un poste junior de support technique puisque que plusieurs de nos projets en ont besoin. Une fois en place nous croyons d'ailleurs que cette offre sera populaire.

Official launch

The fall launch is quickly approaching. Already I had a few meetings with the city of Gatineau and the local development office, everyone is happy to help. I have another meeting on August 7th. The date will be between September 7th and October 4th and the location will be the Gatneau City Hall. What we will need everyone to do is to pass the word so that we can get a maximum of participants and media at the event. This time our goal is the potential business members.

Projects

We always say that our work brings value to our business members, that innovation is important and necessary for companies to survive. We have a very good example now with one of our members who is getting attention from a large client specifically because of the technology that we have created for them. While the member's goal has been to improve service delivery, they now realize that the technology itself, and not just the better service rendered, is making them shine. The media is the message!

Talking about projects, we have been getting lots of telephony requests, we have several projects on the table and we are hoping to finalize the funding so that we can put together a team.

We are still looking at creating a junior Tech support position as more and more of our projects require this presence. One we have it, it will probably attract attention too.

We had excellent participation, most of the people I did not know, this means that the circle is expanding. Richard Stallman's speech was excellent. A great event, now we need to prepare the big event.

Nous avons eu une un très bon groupe, la pluspart des gens que je ne connaissait pas - et c'est bien car cela veut dire que le groupe s'élargit. La présentation de Richard Stallman était excellente. Un bon évènement, maintenant il nous faut préparer le lancement.

Photos 2009.05.31

Invitation a une présentation du CREDIL - et venez rencontrer Richard Stallman dimanche à 16h00

CREDIL: Centre de Recherche Et Développement expérimental en Informatique Libre ouvre ses portes a de nouveaux membres !

Nous sommes une coopérative de biens communs a but non lucrative et une structure d'affaires offrant expertise et vulgarisation en technologie de l'information.

Nous étendons les compétences des innovateurs en produisant des solutions durable. Et nous aimerions vous voir faire partie de nos membres.

Certains d'entre vous cherchez un nouveau défi, certains cherchez un rassemblement d'informaticiens pour obtenir du support et des services, peu importe votre situation venez voir ce que nous avons a offrir !

Dimanche après midi le 31 Mai de 16h00 à 18h00. Nous allons présenter notre centre et vous allez avoir la chance de rencontrer Richard Stallman.

Le fondateur de la Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, s'arrête à Ottawa sur son chemin de retour vers Boston après avoir reçu un diplôme honorifique de l'Université Lakehead de Thunder Bay. Le CREDIL veut faire pour le relation entre les TI et les entreprises ce que Richard Stallman a fait pour la relation entre la licence logiciel et les gens: En faire une relation juste et équitable qui encourge l'innovation et le partage.

Lien: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Venez nous voir de 16h00 à 18h00 -

UQO - Université du Québec en Outaouais (Campus Alexandre Taché)

283 boulevard Alexandre Taché

Voir la page web: Nous sommes accessible par autobus, voiture et vélo

http://code.credil.org/wiki/credil-pub/Dimanche_31_Mai

Christian R. Meloche
crm@credil.org
+1 613 693 0684 #3201
F3018 - 283 Alexandre Taché
Gatineau (QC) J9A 1L8 CANADA
Sustainable Innovation // Innovation Durable

We do nothing small at CREDIL, for our first ever public meeting, where we will talk about CREDIL and display our offer to potential new members, we will have non other than the founder of the Free Software Foundation!

Here is the Invitation:

Invitation to a CREDIL presentation - and meet with Richard Stallman Sunday at 4pm

CREDIL: Centre for Research and Experimental Development in Informatics
Libre is opening its doors to new members.

We are a non-profit cooperative commons and business infrastructure providing expertise and popularisation in open information technology.

We extend the core competencies of innovators by providing sustainable
solutions. And we would like you to join us.

Some of you may be looking for new challenges, some of you may only be looking for an organisation to get support and services from, either ways come and see what we have to offer!

Sunday afternoon 4pm to 6 pm, we will present to you our plans and you
will get a chance to meet with Richard Stallman.

The Founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, is
stopping in Ottawa for meetings with government and non-governmental
officials. He is enroute back to MIT after receiving an honorary degree
from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay. CREDIL aims to do with the
relationship between the IT world and the Business world what Richard
Stallman did with the relationship between people and software licenses, that is: make it work freely for both parties and encourage innovation.

Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Come and see us, in Building "F" of UQO in Hull 4pm to 6pm

See the web page for instructions how get here. We are accessible by
bus, car, bicycle.

http://code.credil.org/wiki/credil-pub/Sunday_May_31st

Christian R. Meloche
crm@credil.org
+1 613 693 0684 #3201
F3018 - 283 Alexandre Taché
Gatineau (QC) J9A 1L8 CANADA
Sustainable Innovation // Innovation Durable

For almost a year now CREDIL has operated under the wing of its first Sponsor Member, however, Starting May 1st, CREDIL will fly alone. Already 2 more members have join and a few more may follow soon.

Following a call for founder members, 9 people have worked to set the foundation of the Centre. We have a mission (see our wiki) and following this important "Legal entity creation" step we will launch the centre officially.

Ok so the contest is over. Many registered but few actually submitted code. The timing was very short. However, I am pleased to announced that the code we received was great!

Here are the improvement to the code:

• A big Security problem fixed
• Several non-free library removed and replaced by free ones
• A start of a testing framework added to the code
• Eclipse project files created
• Start of CLF2 porting
• HTML markup error fixed (XHTML validation)

As I said, many registered, but only 3 individuals submitted code. We will therefore split the prize 3 way.
First prize - Chris Longtin $1333.34
Chris submitted amazing code, showing how fast he can dive into a project and how well he can document commits! Because of Chris, OPA is now much more secure and free of non free libraries!

Second prize - Michael Richardson $1333.33
Micheal told us that refactoring was difficult to do because of the lack of unit testing. So he decided to implement the base of what will hopefully grow to become a comprehensive testing framework for OPA.

Third prize - Andrew "Orospakr" Clunis $1333.33
Andrew made the code usable in Eclispe, he worked on the CLF2 porting, not to mention countless HTML markup cleanup for XHTML compliance.

Furthermore, CREDIL also chipped in and after this contest the project will be available in a properly organized website along with better documentation and tools that have become standard in properly functioning Free Software Projects.

We will also have VM available so that individuals can dive in the code easily. This will lower the step considerably for organization wanting to add features to the application in the future. OPA will emerge as an inviting project allowing people to easily re-contribute code.

For CREDIL this is an opportunity to be a vehicle for organizations wishing to take code out of the closet and establish a community around it. We hope that many projects like OPA will come our way.

Chris

Some of you reported that the automatic registration confirmation did not work. Si while we are not accepting new participants for the contest anymore, those of you who have registered have until noon tomorrow to submit. (12:00 EDT March 31st)

Many people have expressed interest but few followed through. The reason is not so much that the code is badly written nor that refactoring would be hard to do, it is more that the time needed to jump in the project is long and that many pre-requisites, such as unit tests were not present.

But we are changing all that! CREDIL volonteers are working hard to make the project available in a properly organized website along with better documentation and tools to use it with eclipse and other things that have become standard in properly functioning Free Software Projects. We will also have VM available so that individuals can dive in the code easily. This will lower the step considerably for organization wanting to add features to the application in th future.

While the original goal of the contest may not be fully met, OPA will emerge as an inviting project allowing people to easily contribute code.

On of CREDIL's role is to be a vehicle for organizations wishing to take code out of the closet and establish a community around it. We hope that many projects like OPA will come our way.

We will award the prize money next week.