=================================== III Jornades de Programari Lliure =================================== -------------------------------------------- 7-10 de juliol de 2004, Campus Manresa UPC -------------------------------------------- The third edition of the Free Software Conference (http://jornadespl.upc.es/) at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) will take place from the 7th to the 10th of July at Manresa (Catalonia, Spain). The Comissioner of Technologies and Communications of the Catalan Autonomous Goverment (La Generalitat de Catalunya), Oriol Ferran, will attend the inaugural round table on free software and public administration, moderated by the well-known journalist Vicent Partal. Ian Murdock and Martin Michlmayr, founder and current leader of the Debian project respectively, will also attend this edition which will pay special attention to this distribution. A Debian catalan developers meeting will take place during the Conference. Almost 20 presentations will let us know what is being done around free software at a local and a global level. Besides the presentations and the round tables, we have significantly increased the number of workshops in this edition. The offer includes, among other topics, different tools of development, multimedia with free software (GIMP, Blender, audio), scientific tools, and wireless. It is necessary to fill a registration from (registration is free) to attend the workshops. The same is valid for the conference itself. Other activities to emphasize are: the lecture on OpenMosix by charge of David Santos, the special session about legislation of copyright and patents, and the tutorial on KDE by Antonio Larrosa, a distinguished developer of the project. The special session on social movements will give us the opportunity to know a series of social movements that use the free software as a basic working tool. Free Software companies will also be present at this Conference, where we will see sessions by about IBM, Sun, Novell-SuSE-Ximian and HP to explain their projects. This intense program of activities will be completed with an exhibition of historical computer material and a Career Projects Competition related with the free software... and some last minute surprises! We see the Conference as a meeting point for all those that have an interest in the free software, and you are all invited to attend! ** Program summary ** You can find the full program at http://jornadespl.upc.es/programa/. You will find all the workshops in the afternoons from 16:30 to 19:30. * Wednesday 7 12:00-13:30 Round Table: Free Software and Public Administration * Thursday 8 09:00-10:00 Lecture of Ian Murdock about the Progeny project 10:45-13:30 special sessions on legislation * Friday 9 10:45-13:30 special session about distributed process, with lectures of Grid Computing (IBM) and OpenMosix (David Santo) Tutorial 16:30-19:30 KDE by Antonio Larrosa * Saturday 10 10:30-13:30 special Debian sessions, with lectures about Debian GNU/k*BSD (Guillem Jover and Robert Millán) and "The community driven distribution" (Martin Michlmayr) 15:30-17:30 special session about the social movements with representatives of Infospace, Pangea, Indymedia, Kernel-Panic... ** Travel and Accommodation ** You can find all the information to reach Manresa at http://jornadespl.upc.es/localitzacio.html and where to accomodate at http://jornadespl.upc.es/dormir.html