eBox has been invited to collaborate on the Master on Free Software (edition 2008-2009), organized by University Rey Juan Carlos in collaboration with Fundación Caixanova and Igalia. This collaboration entails carrying out teaching activities and offering an internship for one of the Master students.

Javier Uruen, CTO of eBox, gave recently a class within the subject “Free software projects – detailed studies” regarding eBox Platform and in few months the selected trainee will start an internship that aims to begin with Snort integration, allowing eBox Platform to operate also as an IDS (Intrusion Detection System).

eBox CEO, Ignacio Correas and Luis Palomero, CTO of SABECO-SIMPLY have been invited to give a joint presentation in the 4th Conference on Electronic Commerce (IV Jornadas de Comercio Electrónico, JCEL) that is to be held on the 25th and 26th of February at the Centro Politécnico Superior, University of Zaragoza.

The presentation, entitled “Integration of open source software in the enterprise” is based on the experience of implementing eBox Platform at SABECO-SIMPLY, a supermarket chain with 126 supermarkets and hypermarkets, 117 associated establishments and 17 petrol stations located in nine different autonomous communities in Spain.

The presentation aims to explain the different motivations of service providers, developers, clients and end users to use OSS, explain briefly SABECO-SIMPLY’s OSS strategy and current state of implementation and finally, discuss the obtained benefits.

The presentation will be held on the 25th of February from 7:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. and both speakers are available for further questions after the presentation. There is no registration fee, but the Conference organization requests the participants to register on-line before the 23rd of February.

The 4th Conference on Electronic Commerce is organized by the Communication Technologies Group (GTC), the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research (I3A) and University of Zaragoza.

eBox Platform CTO, Javier Uruen and Isaac Clerencia (Developer/Analyst) participate in Fosdem`09 that is held this year in Brussels, Belgium, on 7th and 8th of February. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Development European Meeting) is a free and non-commercial event aiming to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet.

If you are interested in meeting with eBox Platform crew, please do not hesitate to e-mail us at info@ebox-platform.com. We’ll be staying in Brussels until Monday, 9th of February.