Science 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:

C-Cast Project Results

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:09:30 +0100

Well it’s been more than a year since the last time I talked about projects I’m working in.

But here I am, reporting on the conclusion of C-Cast.

Last week I was in Florence, Italy (so far the city I most enjoyed in Italy) in the Future Network & Mobile Summit, during which we presented C-Cast publicly through a workshop and demonstration booth. In the days preceding the conference, we were audited by the European Commission with a final result of “Good to excellent progress (the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations).”, plus we were considered the best “run up demo” in the conference.

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:

C-Mobile Project

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:11:19 +0100

As you might have noticed, I’ve been really busy in the last few months as C-Mobile project reached it’s end, and some demos had to be delivered :)

I can say that my team did a good job and to show their good work we have created a video for YouTube.

You can find more detailed videos here

Who want's to be an astronaut?

Thu, 08 May 2008 11:03:20 +0100

Keeping it real short: ESA is hiring :)

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