1. Energia Open Source Powered by Open Source Caixa Mgica Software: The main Portuguese Linux Distribution Company Paulo Trezentos: Paulo.Trezentos@caixamagica.pt http://twitter.com/PauloTrezentos Partner / Technical Director John Thomson: John.Thomson@caixamagica.pt http://twitter.com/johngt85 Researcher Wednesday, 27th October, 2010

2. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 2 Powered by Open Source A brief summary: Caixa Mgica is a software and solutions provider for GNU/Linux based Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Systems. Linux- Caixa Mgica is the main Linux Distribution available in Portugal and in 2000 one of the co-founders was awarded the Prmio Milnio 2000 Expresso award for the project. Originally based in the research arm of ISCTE, ADETTI it soon outgrew the available resources and has relocated twice to larger offices. Caixa Magica's main office is now found in the building that used to be the main Portuguese Stock Exchange. 3. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 3 Powered by Open Source Our vision: We wish to be a leader in the Open Source industry and we want to realise them through various aspects: Software: Linux Caixa Mgica 'The' Portuguese distribution Appliances: CAMES powered by Ipbrick Consulting: Projects and involvement in F/OSS and areas relating to technology. R & D: Innovation at all levels and through all aspects. Business: Helping customers realise the benefits that F/OSS allow for. Professional Services: Integration and assisting clients. Unified Team-work: A strong team with unique competencies. 4. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 4 Powered by Open Source Main product Linux Caixa Mgica 15 New version with new features: Parental Control, KDE 4.4.3 , OO.org 3.2, Kernel 2.6.33.5 Continuation of the partnership with Mandriva as a base. Choice of Gnome 2.30.1 /KDE 4.4.3. Many packages and applications have had partial if not full translations to Portuguese. RPM based system that uses a port of APT, APT-RPM. Live CD (Pen) 5. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 5 Powered by Open Source Who, where and what? The distribution is available at hundreds of Portuguese Computer stores and specialised resellers. It is a SME and has 30 full time staff as well as many more that work under other companies but work on Caixa Mgica projects. Along with working for the incumbent Telecommunication operator, Portugal Telecom, CMS works with a variety of other companies and government bodies. The Caixa Magica Operating System is installed on many Hospital, Municipal Authorities and more than 1,100 schools as well as over 10 universities. The System has also been installed in many enterprise environments and over 650,000 computers as part of widescale Portuguese initiatives. 6. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 6 Powered by Open Source Who we work for continued Caixa Mgica works also with the Portuguese Army for deploying more than 120 GNU/Linux based security appliances. Since 2006 CMS has been sub-contracted by the Portuguese Ministry of Justice for maintaining Linux servers in critical data-centers. 7. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 7 Powered by Open Source Magalhes (www.magalhaes.caixamagica.pt) Government sponsored hardware/software solution for primary school students in Portugal. 450,000+ Magalhes with dual boot: Linux CM 12 Mag & Windows XP Updates from GCompris (Community help & IFILP) Most popular application - SuperTux SuperTux The game has been modified to allow for uploading of scores A dedicated website for new levels and points scored Partnerships: Angulo Slido, IFILP, Assoc. Ensino Livre, ESE Santarm Objectives: Mesh networking in the classroom Sugar and creating other dedicated apps. 8. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 8 Powered by Open Source Magalhes Equipment made Availabe to market 2009 Classroom/ Individual Usage 2010 Internet Cloud 2013 9. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 9 Powered by Open Source Teacher-Student StudentStudent-Students Parents-Student 10. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 10 Powered by Open Source Connecting with the community Sites targeted to particular groups of users Forums: comunidade.caixamagica.pt foruns.escolas.caixamagica.pt Error reporting dudf.caixamagica.pt User package submissions contribware.caixamagica.pt Team skills: Perl, Python, C/C++ Development in PHP / JS Culture of Open Source Summer schools and internships 11. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 15 Powered by Open Source e-Schools & KTE e-Escolas & Insys Gameforce In partnership with Inforlandia / TMN DeFacto Hardware Linux CM 14/15 ready for use with 3G More than 50,000 units sold Back to school 2009 Stylish hardware with a new processor Linux Caixa Mgica 14 Development into 3G drivers/integration Outfitted with technology suitable for schools In partnership with HP 110,000+ PCs Authentication support for 802.1X & EdgeBox 12. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 16 Powered by Open Source European based research projects Caixa Mgica works in many multi-national European based research projects. After the conclusion of the EDOS (EU FP6 STREP) based project it is now actively working on another, MANCOOSI. Many other projects in the pipeline and that have been bidded for. Work with a multitude of top-tier Universities and research institutions. TotalRecall 13. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 17 Powered by Open Source Research & Development (European Projects 2.45 M Euros 2008/2014 ) 2008 2009 2011 2012 20132010 2014 TotalRecall 14. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 18 Powered by Open Source International research MANCOOSI project of 7 FP Managing software complexity (e.g. Software packages) Main points: 2008-2011 4.4 M Euros (CM: 594 K euros) 10 partners from 6 countries Portugal: CM & INESC Principle objectives for R&D for CM: Development of a new generation of meta-installers Involvement in two new projects for FP7 - ULOOP & Total Recall 15. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 19 Powered by Open Source DUDF error reporting On the context of the MANCOOSI European project we developed dudf.caixamagica.pt, a reporting platform about installation problems that users have with our package installer, apt-rpm. It has been collecting reports and generating statistics about problems and corresponding packages since September 2009. It serves both as a source of information for Caixa Magica QA and as input for the MANCOOSI solver competition. 16. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 20 Powered by Open Source ULOOP WiFi Networks project user-centric / MESH Partners AlcatelLucent Huawei Univ. Lusfona Fon Caixa Mgica .... Influences for CM: Network Manager Contributions towards Kernel Drivers New ways to connect to the Internet 17. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 21 Powered by Open Source TotalRecall Digital Preservation of Enterprise Systems Led by SAP Partners: INESC-Lisboa Intel Caixa Mgica Freeze Enterprise systems for recall at a later time Not just storing the data, also storing the Business context information (eg. web-services) How TR influences CMS: Open Source Development Virtualisation 18. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 22 Powered by Open Source Caixa Mgica Software 2011 / 2020 Making our product more competitive International and National Research and Development Objective results: improve meta-installers Understands the importance of collaboration Improve the team Expand internationally Work in partnerships Working with clients: Improvement of CM versions 16 and beyond Research new ideas Help existing clients solve problems 19. Energia Open Source 26.10.2010 Caixa Mgica Software 23 Powered by Open Source Powered by Open Source for over 10 years Thank you very much.