OPEN-SOURCE FILTER

There are many reasons for developing open-source software, ranging from philosophical and ethical convictions to pragmatic and economic decisions, the most important ones are:

- Encourages software re-use. Open source software development allows programmers to cooperate freely with other programmers. As a result, open source software development encourages software re-use.

- Increases code quality and security

- Stability

- Reliability and Integrity

- Cost Reduction. Most open source software is available for a nominal cost, often the price of the media, or the time of the download. No more "per-seat" license fees. POESIA will be licence free software.

- Increases customizability. Which is very important especially for filtering software. As an example POESIA filter could be customise for each user depending on their end users (i.e. the criteria of a filter used in a university could be different from the criteria of a filter used in a school)

- Facilitates distribution and dissemination. Since the POESIA software will be released under open-source licenses, it will be possible to use it and deploy it on a very large scale, therefore dissemination efforts are much more effective than a commercial closed source software.

Content filtering is very important into real world, because there are a lot of kids that nowadays are accessing to Internet and they must be protected. Existent commercial solutions are usually very expensive and has no good quality so educational institutions can not adopt them and pupils are potential victims of pornographic or violence content.

A Free Open Source Code project for content filtering can stop these situations because whichever educational institution can acquire for free and install into one of their machines to protect their pupils. A Open Source Content filter is the best solution from economic and quality point of view for educational institutions that want to protect their students from dangerous content.

Other important reason for developing a Free Open Source Filter is that all the code can be easily reused or modified to commit a specific filtering that any commercial solutions offers and then this new feature will be available for all the world. A Open Source solution always is the best way for creating universal, reliable and quality products as we can see in products like Apache, MySQL, Squid and more, which are modified by anonymous people to improve its performance. This is the final objective of POESIA, developing a Content Filter which can be improved everyday by the Open Source community so all the world, and specially all educational institutions, will can protect kids from dangerous and undesired content from a better way each day a new contribution was made.  

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CVS REPOSITORIES

The developers of the Poesia Project´s Consortium are located mainly in 4 different countries: France, England, Spain and Italy. To enable them to work together on our software, we keep the source code in an Internet-accessible revision control system called CVS. POESIA project committers have write access to the CVS repositories, enabling them to make changes to the source code. Everyone has read access to the repositories, so you may download the most up-to-date development version of the software.

To get more information about POESIA CVS please connect to the following address:

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POESIA DEVELOPERS SITE

POESIA developers have a specific web site dealing with technical issues regarding the development of the filter. There you will be able to find detailed information about the different latest filtering procedures in POESIA.

POESIA Developers Site:

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