CALIBRE workshop on Quality, Safety and Security; KKIO 2005, Kraków

On Tuesday I attended the CALIBRE workshop on Quality, Security and Safety in FLOSS in Kraków, Poland. There were several interesting talks, including one looking at flight safety control and one about the large-scale deployment of Linux based thin-clients for the Polish government. I presented my work on quality management and discussed problems of release management in large, volunteer projects.

The following day KKIO 2005 started, the Kraków Software Engineering Conference. Niklaus Wirth gave the keynote speech, looking at ideas which seemed like a good idea when they came up many years ago and evaluating them from today's perspective. I presented my paper Software Process Maturity and the Success of Free Software Projects and listended to several talks. Some talks were in Polish but the proceedings are in English and I look forward to reading some of them.