En la tarde del pasado viernes, 20 de octubre, tuvo lugar en el GaiásTech de la Ciudad de la Cultura el acto de resolución de la XVI edición del Premio al mejor Proyecto Universitario con Licencia Libre convocado por el Consorcio CIXUG, y que cuenta con la colaboración de la Agencia para la Modernización Tecnológica de Galicia (AMTEGA) y de la asociación GPUL.

Last Friday afternoon, 20th October, took place in the GaiásTech of the Ciudad de la Cultura the resolution ceremony of the XVI edition of the Prize for the best University Project with an Open Source Licence organised by the Consorcio CIXUG, with the collaboration of the Agencia para la Modernización Tecnológica de Galicia (AMTEGA) and the GPUL association..

The first prize was won by Diego Barreiro Pérez with his project «Análise e implementación dun sistema de xeración automática de horarios mediante intelixencia artificial», which solves the problem of timetabling in universities. This work aims to achieve four main objectives:

1. Identify and model the associated entities (subjects and classrooms, dependencies to centre, grades, etc.).
2. Identify and model the constraints of the problem, which can be hard or soft depending on the level of restriction set.
3. Define the problem using a flexible language that allows the incorporation of new constraints in a simple way.
4. Display programme output through a graphical interface.

This recognition carries a financial endowment of 1,500 euros, which is provided by the CIXUG within the collaboration framework of the signed agreement with AMTEGA.

On the other hand, a second prize was awarded to Joaquín Solla Vázquez for his work «Simplex: aplicación móvil para la organización personal», in which a mobile application is developed to facilitate the task of organising personal tasks, as well as the management of events or routines. This second prize has an economic endowment of 750 euros, which are provided by the GPUL association, collaborating entity of this initiative and also framed in the collaboration agreement signed with AMTEGA.

Finalists

The five finalists who reached the final phase of this year's edition were the following:

Diego Barreiro Pérez	«Análise e implementación dun sistema de xeración automática de horarios mediante intelixencia artificial»
Lucía María Álvarez Crespo	«Amosando o Lado Escuro das redes sociais: desenvolvemento do primeiro corpus en lingua galega para a detección de misoxinia en Twitter e Mastodon»
Daniel Boubeta Portela	«FreeDSM: Dispositivo portátil para la medición de contaminación lumínica mediante tecnologías IoT»
Joaquín Solla Vázquez	«Simplex: aplicación móvil para la organización personal»
José Ángel Pérez Garrido	«Aplicación de técnicas de aprendizaxe profunda ao desenvolvemento dun bot conversacional para contribuír á mellora da saúde mental»

Jury

The jury was made up of the following persons:

• Mariano Cabrero Canosa
  • University of A Coruña
• Alberto Suárez Garea
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
• Francisco Javier Rodríguez Martínez
  • University of Vigo
• Paula Taibo Suárez
  • GPUL Association
• Jorge Lama Varela
  • Open Source Coordination Office (AMTEGA)

Prize for the best University Project with a Open Source Licence

The CIXUG announces this award as part of the activities included in the collaboration agreement with AMTEGA, which aims to improve the mechanisms for training and dissemination of open source software in the Galician university ecosystem.

GPUL's collaboration is also part of the activities included in the collaboration agreement signed with Amtega for the promotion of open source software in Galicia.

Acknowledgement 

The CIXUG would like to thank all the participants and collaborators so that this award can continue to promote the release of university work in our community, and will shortly begin the dissemination for the next edition.