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The MARSEC-XL Foundation has announced the appointment of a new council member, Jim Jagielski. “Jim has extraordinary technology and open source expertise and we are delighted that he is joining MARSEC-XL as a new council member. He brings a wealth of experience and insights that come from running a successful large global open source community,” said Krystyna Wojnarowicz, President of MARSEC-XL Foundation. “MARSEC-XL is now focusing on internationalization and promoting adoption of MARSSA, Marine Systems Software Architecture, the first open source open reference architecture for the maritime industry. With Jim onboard we are confident that we will reach out to a global audience, build a strong MARSSA community and boost innovation in the maritime industry,” commented Geir Fagerhus, CEO MARSEC-XL. “I am extremely excited about joining MARSEC-XL as a council member. When I first learned of their efforts, via the Isle of Open Source Conference, I was amazed at the deep talent they had as well as the incredible opportunity they had in changing the maritime and open source ecosystem”, said Jagielski. "I plan to do whatever I can to ensure MARSEC-XL and their efforts reach their full potential" Jim Jagielski is a well known and acknowledged expert and visionary in Open Source, IT and cloud computing. He is best known as one of the developers and co-founders of The Apache Software Foundation and serves as President. He also serves on the board, as well as secretary, for the Outercurve Foundation and is a director for the Open Source Initiative (OSI). He is a frequent speaker and presenter at Open Source and Web/Cloud conferences and was recently awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award. Jim works for Red Hat, Inc as Consulting Software Engineer under the office of the CTO. He graduated from John Hopkins University with a BES in electrical engineering and computer science and continued on to receive his Masters and PhD. Before working at Red Hat he had worked at NASA, Zend Technologies, Covalent and VMWare. MARSEC-XL, Marine Software Engineering Cluster of Excellence, sets out to shape the digital future of the maritime industry. MARSEC-XL, an innovation hot spot for the maritime industry, provides an unbroken sustainable innovation chain encompassing a range of activities from applied research, education and training to business operations and technology transfer. MARSEC-XL serves as a neutral ground where internationally leading brands, start-up companies and academia work collaboratively. Founded in Malta in 2007 with industry support, MARSEC-XL has created MARSSA and donated it to the open source community in February 2012. Marsec-XL Foundation +356 99 43 1770 <a href="mailto:info@marsec-xl.org?subject=MARSEC-XL%20on%20SuperYachtTimes.com">info@marsec-xl.org</a> <a href="http://www.marsec-xl.org/">www.marsec-xl.org</a>

MARSEC-XL Welcomes Jim Jagielski as a New Council Member

MARSEC-XL today announced the first open source, community-driven platform project in the marine industry. After more than 3 years of baseline research and experimentation the foundation for the Marine Systems Software Architecture, MARSSA, has been laid and the platform is open for collaboration, contributions and use. MARSSA will serve as the base for integration, compatibility and interoperability of electronic systems in the marine industry. With MARSSA, the marine domain will become an opportunity-driven and innovative industry with enhanced competitiveness. The customers and users will enjoy very high quality, reliable products and systems with seamless interoperability and a low threshold for introduction of the latest technologies. At the same time the total cost of ownership will be radically reduced. To validate the MARSSA architecture MARSEC-XL is currently running a number of prototype projects for various onboard systems. The initial areas tackled include power management for hybrid vessels, intelligent docking assistance, automatic electronic logbooks and a sailing assistant with heads-up display. A variety of computing platforms, input and frontend devices are used based on industry standard COTS products. Data acquired from NMEA2000, CAN Bus and other standard protocols are processed ultra-fast and with superior quality in the onboard MARSSA private cloud, typically implemented with Linux-based plug computers. Frontend user interface can easily be implemented on state of the art devices like the iPad, Android devices or HD displays. Virtually any system that opens up to interface with MARSSA can co-exist and interoperate in the onboard private cloud and, given the new distributed and high quality computing backbone, the overall system quality, availability and low cost will be revolutionary in the marine industry. The MARSSA development team has commented on the project; Clayton Tabone, research engineer and open source Linux developer said: “We have developed a high quality prototype power management system for a marine vessel in an astonishingly short time. Based on the MARSSA platform and using the MARSEC-XL Quality Software Development Process, we managed to do this in a few weeks, and the system has been stable and up and running all the time. We didn’t even have to restart the system one single time during the entire development phase, it is truly remarkable!” Zak Borg, research engineer and MARSSA project manager stated: “After 3 years of development of the MARSSA architecture, we were really surprised ourselves with the cost savings and, at the same time, what this totally novel approach to high-tech in the marine industry can achieve. In the current prototype projects we see that the development cost will be less than 20% of conventional project costs. Open source, high quality and community drive is definitely the way to go for this industry and we invite you to join and lead the way, free your mind and let’s start the innovation revolution together.” Marsec-XL Foundation +356 99 43 1770 <a href="mailto:info@marsec-xl.org?subject=MARSSA%20on%20SuperYachtTimes.com">info@marsec-xl.org</a> <a href="http://www.marsec-xl.org">www.marsec-xl.org</a>

MARSEC-XL launches open source community-driven mainstream in the marine industry

IntelliMare, a newly formed venture in Malta, dealing with innovative and intelligent marine systems strives to innovate and sculpt the future of the marine industry through intensive applied R&amp;D, which will lead to novel products in the near future. IntelliMare is the first local Maltese marine hi-tech company established in the MBP (Marine Business Port), following earlier established foreign-owned companies in the unique MARSEC-XL cluster of excellence in Malta. With an open innovation model in mind intelliMare will together with MARSEC-XL lead the innovation of marine software systems. Hidden in a test lab a proof of concept prototype for an innovative intelligent mooring assistance has been born, and based on the initial results, the future of this technology looks very bright. The innovations will also be applied in systems, which will create a better marine ecosystem by reductions in pollution in marine going vessels, as well as all other sectors of the marine industry. The team is full of energy and innovative ideas, which will be beneficial to every niche of the market, it being a new yacht owner or experienced officer of the watch. “Our vision is that in the near future most sea bound vessels, which you may embark upon, will be powered by technologies born at intelliMare. Innovation is the fundamental ability to anticipate the future by creating it” – says Zak Borg, CEO intelliMare. IntelliMare is open for investors interested in advancing the hi-tech marine field. IntelliMare Zak Borg (356) 7921 0808 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.intelliMare.com">www.intelliMare.com</a> MARSEC-XL Ms. Krystyna Wojnarowicz +356 99 43 1770 <a href="mailto:krystyna@marsec-xl.org?subject=IntelliMare%20on%20SuperYachtTimes.com">krystyna@marsec-xl.org</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.marsec-xl.org">www.marsec-xl.org</a>

Marine software systems for mariners by mariners

Marsec-XL Foundation is launching a new global community-driven membership program for companies and organizations active and interested in the marine hitech sector. Following the Founding Industry Membership program in the successful initial phase, Marsec-XL is now broadening the membership base reaching out to the global community of companies and organizations already active in the marine industry as well as those interested in the potential offered by marine software engineering. Baseline research results delivered by Marsec-XL and its research institute MI-SE@MALTA since 2007 show that the marine industry is continuously growing more dependant on software from the early vessel and systems design phase all the way through to the final products, vessel operation and maintenance. This trend will continue to grow exponentially in the coming years opening up new opportunities in the marine market but also creating challenges. Already today the marine industry is facing challenges related to system integration, reliability and robustness. These negatively affect quality of the products and onboard systems as well as quality and safety of the entire vessel in both leisure and commercial sectors. Many of these challenges stem from the fact that the marine industry still lacks the competencies in marine software engineering; “Reliable, high quality and user-friendly software solutions are created by educated and skilled software architects and software engineers just like vessels are created by naval architects and engineers. Moreover, domain-specific, maritime knowledge is essential to create intelligent and useful solutions for mariners. It is Marsec-XL’s mission to bring marine software engineering to the entire marine industry blending mariner’s experience with software engineering skills.” – said Krystyna Wojnarowicz, President of Marsec-XL Foundation Council. “In order to achieve this and develop the field further we need to look outside the current marine industry to bring the software engineering competencies to the marine business.” – added Geir Fagerhus, CEO Marsec-XL. The new MARSEC-XL membership program is open to organizations from both marine and other sectors. Small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large multi-nationals will find a membership level that suits their needs. “Our goal is that members at all levels will experience benefits exceeding their expectations.” – says Geir Fagerhus. The Membership is offered at three levels: Platinum, Gold and Silver with vast benefits associated. These range from access to unique industry review and forecast reports, access to research results, royalty-free use licenses to discounts on education, training and events organized by Marsec-XL. In addition participation in research projects and business activities are offered and for the higher membership levels active influence on the direction of Marsec-XL through the Industry Panel is part of the package. The Industry Panel will guide the creation of de facto standards for the marine industry and promote industry best practices as well as serve as a forum for the future of the hi-tech marine industry. The new Marsec-XL Membership Program will be launched in connection with BOOT 2010 in Düsseldorf and a team from Marsec-XL will be present to meet with prospective members. A new Corporate Membership section has been launched on the MARSEC-XL website <a href="http://www.marsec-xl.org">www.marsec-xl.org</a> further detailing the membership program and providing the membership application form as well as the membership brochure for download.Marsec-XL Foundation +356 99 43 1770 <a href="mailto:info@marsec-xl.org?subject=Marsec-XL%20on%20SuperYachtTimes.com">info@marsec-xl.org</a> <a href="http://www.marsec-xl.org">www.marsec-xl.org</a>