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© FUOC • XP07/M2101/02708 <strong>Introduction</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Free</strong> <strong>Software</strong><br />

Jordi Mas Hernández David Megías Jiménez Jesús M. González Barahona<br />

Founding member of Softcatalà and<br />

of the telematic network RedBBS.<br />

He has worked as a consultant in<br />

companies like Menta, Telépolis, Vodafone,<br />

Lotus, eresMas, Amena and<br />

Terra España.<br />

Computer Science Engineer by the<br />

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona<br />

(UAB, Spain). Master in Advanced<br />

Process Au<strong>to</strong>matisation Techniques<br />

by the UAB. PhD. in Computer Science<br />

by the UAB. Associate Professor<br />

in the Computer Science, Multimedia<br />

and Telecommunication Department<br />

of the Universitat Oberta<br />

de Catalunya (UOC, Spain) and Direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />

of the Master Programme in<br />

<strong>Free</strong> <strong>Software</strong> at the UOC.<br />

Joaquín Seoane Pascual Gregorio Robles<br />

PhD. Enigeer of Telecommunications<br />

in the Politechnical University<br />

of Madrid (Spain). He has worked<br />

in the private sec<strong>to</strong>r and has also<br />

taught in the Computer Science<br />

Faculty of that same university.<br />

Nowadays he is professor in the Department<br />

of Telematic Systems Engineering,<br />

and has taught courses<br />

in programming, pro<strong>to</strong>cols, distributed<br />

operating systems, Internet services,<br />

databases, systems administration<br />

and free software.<br />

Assistant professor in the Rey Juan<br />

Carlos University (Madrid, Spain),<br />

where he acquired his PhD. degree<br />

in February 2006. Besides his<br />

teaching tasks, he researches free<br />

software development from the<br />

point of view of software engineering,<br />

with special focus in quantitative<br />

issues.<br />

Professor in the Department of Telematic<br />

Systems and Computation of<br />

the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid,<br />

Spain), where he coordinates<br />

the research group LibreSoft. His<br />

professional areas of interest include<br />

the study of free software development<br />

and the transfer of knowledge<br />

in this field <strong>to</strong> the industrial sec<strong>to</strong>r.<br />

Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.<br />

Av. Tibidabo, 39-43, 08035 Barcelona<br />

Material prepared by Eureca Media, SL<br />

© Jesús M. González Barahona, Joaquín Seoane Pascual, Gregorio Robles<br />

© 2008, FUOC. Permission is granted <strong>to</strong> copy, distribute and modify this document under the terms<br />

of the GNU <strong>Free</strong> Documentation Licence, Version 1.2 or any subsequent version published by the <strong>Free</strong><br />

<strong>Software</strong> Foundation, with no invariant sections or front-cover or back-cover texts. A copy of the license<br />

is included in the section entitled "GNU <strong>Free</strong> Documentation License" of this document.

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