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The ALERT project was partially funded by the European Commision under the Seventh (FP7 -2007 - 2013) Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development

ALERT is an Open Source project that aims to improve the overall bug resolution process in Open Source developers’ collaborative environments. The ALERT system provides methods and tools to improve the coordination among collaborative as well as distributed virtual teams developing software in Open Source communities and in software development companies.

ALERT created an active collaboration platform, improved coordination between open source developers and extraed information from different sources from developer's environments using a set of sensors installed in these community tools. The ALERT system was tested and validated in three projects of three Open Source Communities (Morfeo, OW2 and KDE) to demonstrate its applicability in real development environments.

CALIBRE is an EU FP6 Co-ordination Action project, involving the leading authorities on libre/open source software. It brings together an interdisciplinary consortium of 12 academic and industrial research teams from France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and China.

CALIBRE aims to coordinate the study of the characteristics of libre (free/open source) software projects, products and processes, distributed development and agile methods.

The results of the CALIBRE project were disseminated through a series of workshops and international conferences in the various partner countries.

The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) is the European Commission's primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU's framework programmes for research and innovation, from FP1 to Horizon Europe.

The mission is to bring research results to professionals in the field to foster open science, create innovative products and services and stimulate growth across Europe.

CORDIS has a rich and structured public repository with all project information held by the European Commission such as project factsheets, participants, reports, deliverables and links to open-access publications. Also produces its own range of publications and articles to make it easier for you to find relevant results that you can use in your domain. The print editions are in English while the web versions are also available in French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

The CASCADOSS Project was implemented between 2007-2009 with the financial support of the Sixth Framework Programme priority 1.2.4.2.2 Identification of New Methods of Promoting and Encouraging Transnational Technology Transfer.

The scope of the CASCADOSS Project was to educate the geospatial community, especially the users related to the use of GMES services, about the role geospatial Open Source projects can have within their working methods and decision-making processes, and to make them clear what the chances of participation in these activities are.

The project developed a legal study to understand the OSS licenses, a study on the OSS business models to familiarize users with the marketing nature of OSS products and services, reviewed the most important GIS and RS OSS products mirroring the early 2009 situation, elaborated an evaluation methodology to support the end users in selecting products to their needs and held 8 International and National events for training and know how transfer.

The COSPA project was a two-year EU funded specific research targeted project that officially began in January 2004, funding through the Information Society Technologies priority of the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

The Consortium aims at analysing the effects of the introduction of Open Data Standards (ODS) and Open Source (OS) software for personal productivity and document management in European PAs.

Knowledge base and series of workshops at regional and European level, with the aim of stimulate: exchange and sharing of knowledge among the partners of the Consortium, public and business' awareness on the project and on OS and ODS in general. Exploitation aims at creating a sustainable market for offering OSS-based services to Public Administrations. Also, many papers were submitted to European and International journals and events.

EDOS is a research project funded by the European Commission as a STREP project under the IST activities of the 6th Framework Programme.

The project aims to study and solve problems associated with the production, management and distribution of open source software packages.

The EDOS project deliverables comprise scientific publications, white papers, and software distributed under open source licenses.

The project was financed by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies (IST/FP5) thematic programme.

The purpose of the FLOSS project was the collection of a base of hard data on the importance and role of Open Source and free software in today's economies as well as an impact assessment for policy and decision-making.

The FLOSS project resulted in the single largest knowledge base on open source usage and development worldwide, and filled some of these gaps, at least in our understanding of the economic and development models behind open source.

The project was financed by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies (IST/FP6) thematic programme.

The FLOSSPLOS project support action builds on the FLOSS project and the scope is to fill in important gaps in the understanding of open source, thus supporting the objectives of the work-programme and maintaining the EU’s lead in this domain.

Workshops, conference "Open Standards and Libre Software in Government" (2004), presentations, publications and different reports about government policy towards open source; gender issues in open source; and the efficiency of open source as a system for collaborative problem-solving.

The project was financed by the European Commission under the FP6-IST- Information Society Technologies (IST) thematic programme.

The FLOSSWorld project aims to strengthen Europe's leadership in research into FLOSS and open standards, building a global constituency of policy-makers and researchers with partners from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, India, Malaysia and South Africa.

Through the FLOSSWorld project three global empirical studies of proven relevance to Europe and third countries were performed, which provided a foundation for FLOSSWorld's regional and international workshops.

The FreeGIS Project was launched in late 1999 as an initiative of Intevation GmbH, a consulting company based in Germany.

The FreeGIS Project aims to promote the freedom in the scope of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The FreeGIS projects concentrated mainly on three services: 1) the website, which summarizes the said software, data and documents with additional infos and search opportunities; 2) a community discussion list, where the news and releases are announced and synergy is sought among the interested community members and projects and 3) the FreeGIS-CD, which offers a compilation of Free GIS Software and geographic data (which can itself be distributed and multiplied further).

Go Open Source is a South African specific Open Source awareness campaign, which launched in May 2004 and officially ended on June 1st 2006.

A coalition of Open Source friendly companies and institutions have united to promote Open Source software within the households and small businesses of South Africa.

Over 200 000 CD's containing the most popular open source software programs were distribuited to anyone who submitted a requested via the website or toll-free number. In August 2004 the campaign jointly launched it's two biggest projects: the Go_Open television series and the Geek Freedom League. In July 2005 the campaign turned its focus to the promotion of free and open source software in Government. The GO open Source website ran as a portal for the various project an open source in general. Also, it become the repository for the Go_Open television show, the GOSSIP database of open source solution providers, the Government workshop documentation, the OpenICDL training materials, and the Geek Freedom League

OSOR is a portal, funded by the European Commission, through its IDABC, ISA and ISA² programmes respectively.

OSOR aims to become a trustworthy observatory that provides FOSS expertise and information as well as serves as middle-ground to connect European Public Administrations with other relevant stakeholders

OSOR is hosted on the Joinup collaborative platform and it is serves as a place where the free / open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.

An open data project by GitHub and collaborators from academia, industry, and the broader open source community.

In collaboration with researchers from academia, industry, and the community, GitHub designed a survey to gather high quality and novel data on open source software development practices and communities.

The result is an open data set about the attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software. The data and questionnaire are released under CC0-1.0.

tOSSad is an FP6 project funded under IST-3.

The tOSSad project aims to improve the outcomes of the F/OSS communities throughout Europe by supporting the coordination and networking of these communities by means of state-of-the-art studies, national program initiations, usability cases, curriculum development and the development of collaborative information portals and web-based groupware.

The tOSSad project consists of different workpackages, such as: F/OSS usability study, F/OSS study, F/OSS in national programs, F/OSS curriculum development.

The Black Duck Open Hub (formerly Ohloh.net) is an online community and public directory of free and open source software (FOSS), offering analytics and search services for discovering, evaluating, tracking, and comparing open source code and projects. Where available, the Open Hub also provides information about vulnerabilities and project licenses.

The aim is to index the open source software development community.

Ohloh is a resource for open source intelligence on thousands of open source projects. Ohloh collects software metrics from a variety of sources including the project's source code and the software development infrastructure used by the project's development team.

With Ohloh users can be more rigorous in evaluating open source software and more creative in exploring simpler and cheaper alternatives to proprietary software. How it worked: Connecting People Through Software Ohloh helps you discover and evaluate open source software by connecting you with other users with similar needs. Ohloh's "Stack It" feature lets you build and share a list of the software you already use. Explore another user's stack directly for software inspiration, or let Ohloh make recommendations automatically. Use your stack to get new software recommendations, find other users like yourself, and get news and licensing info on your entire software library.

Their results have been migrated to OpenHub. Example of Firefox [report](https://web.archive.org/web/20070509002458/http://www.ohloh.net/projects/9)