Conferences on Diogo Gomes

Open Source Software in an Academic Environment

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:18:00 +0100

For long I’ve been an evangelist of OSS in the University of Aveiro. First through my involvement in the foundation of GLUA and more recently through CodeUA. In the last 7 years I’ve participated in several EU projects in which I’ve always promoted the use of OSS and the release of code developed in the projects through OSS licenses.

Today I was able to go a step further, since I was invited to do be part of a discussion panel at the Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Plenary Meeting where the subject was Open Source & Research. In this panel I was representing the Academic view of OSS. The presentation is available at:

People attending a conference

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:03:04 +0000

This is something that came up during a talk in my research group, which I would like to share, in order to check if someone agrees:

It’s true that I haven’t attended a conference in a while. And my main opinion is that they are mostly not worthy the travel expenses… but that will be a different post!

Either way here is my caustic view of the 3 kinds of people attending a Science Conference nowdays:

@Athens, Greece

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:52:10 +0100

This week I’m attending PIMRC'07 where I’ll be presenting a paper entitled IP Multicast Dynamic Mapping in Heterogeneous Environments (I’ll post the URL when the paper becomes available at IEEExplorer)

I had never been to greece before, but I must say to you, their taxi drivers are the most insane I’ve ever met. I was comming from the Airport at 12.30AM at more then 150km cutting through lanes while listening to the driver, that shouted (literally) to my ears how bad his life was, and how much the € made it worst… Besides this, the weather is really nice (warm) and the conference although a bit side track to my main interests is being really interesting.