For web referencing I add here a whole entry devoted to an English SOOS definition:

Standardized Organizational Operating System, SOOS

«Organizational solution, open, convergent, standardized, compound by processes fully specified + a technology platform + self-learning mechanisms all in an open sourced and massive distribution.»

In more detail:

Solution

A solution is compound of people, processes and technology.

organizational

Organizational development is about performing, development and effectivity of human organization. An organization is two or more persons with one or more common goals.

open

in the sense of «systems theory», open to externals energy flows (in the most abstract sense).

convergenty

aim to convergence with existing solutions in order to reduce complexity (see Tainter) and the paradox of the election.

estandardized

Full support and vocation of adopting standards, in the open sense proposed by Ken Krechmer and the European Interoperability Framework.

processes

From ISO 9000:2000 a process is a: set of activities mutually related or interacting, which transforms inputs items into results.

fully specified

as procedures, as in ISO 9000:2000: specified way to carry out an activity or process.

technology platform:

Wordnet says: the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system.

self-learning mechanisms

meaning the mechanisms to explore the knowledge and the know-how from the abstract high level to the gory details for learning with the minimal operation costs.

open sourced

for example in the sense of Open Source Initiative promotes.

massive

able to be popularized and distributed for the SMO sector, applying the Pareto Principle (rule of 80-20) to be commoditized.

For exploring more about SOOS you can read slides in English and Spanish.

For my talk at SCFLOSS'02 I should wrote for first time the presentation and support material in English. Writing (understandable) English is still a challenge for me but I'm happy doing it specially if the subject is deeply related with my SOOS work. The result is published at my website for some weeks but don't announced it till now. So, I got the pleasure of announcing the slides of «Towards an FLOSS SMO reference enterprise architecture».

BTW next entry will be an standalone SOOS definition in plain English. Hope you'll find both of your interest.

Xavi me avisa de madrugada por jabber que finalmente ChronoJump ha ganado el primer premio en la categoría de software educativo en los Trophees du Libre. ¡Felicidades!

Niños, vosotros también podéis. Otra gran aplicación Mono. Hoy lo celebraremos en el Madrid Mono Summit ;-)