How to Create Your Own CreatiFI in Six Easy Steps

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2 FIWARE experience case: Timo Yletyinen, CEO 19th February 2015 Project funded by EU

3 About the Company About the Project and Organization Contents Experiences about the applying process Experience of first two months Suggestions for improvements

4 About the Company Founded in May 2013 in Espoo Currently 4 full time and 1 part time employees Techno-startup: We develop and sell software and service related to 3D printing and 3D scanning We combine modern web technologies with computer graphics and 3D printing/scanning Spinning constantly new commercial products: Tactile maps for visually impaired (and demonstration) Virtual museum (combined with 3D scanning service) Mass customizing online solutions Founders: Timo Yletyinen Jari Pallari Rauno Huttunen Petja Kärki 18 February

5 About the Project and Organization Tactile Maps Community 3D printing makes custom 3D maps cheap and high quality Community allows anyone to design and buy the tactile maps Includes B2B service with our partners Team and tools: 2 developers, 2 in-house customers SCRUM + GIT/Netbeans Schedule: Alpha: April 2014, Beta: August 2014 Site online e/o February Mockup of Tactile Maps Community website Demonstrative tactile map: Helsinki Central Railway Station

6 Experiences about the applying process There was enough of information and support for the applying process CreatiFI provides a good combination of adequate funding and low barrier applying for small initiatives aiming to a commercial product We think it is a very good idea to support new creative initiatives and combine them with open source SW Application process was quite simple It took a long time to read through the guides and terms In the future: even more weight to business value? 18 February

7 Experience of the first two months Generic enablers are of high enough quality Documentation is important in this kind of projects, and mostly taken care of Project has proceeded faster than expected due to a) careful planning, b) SCRUM based project management (warmly recommended!) and c) good quality FIWARE We could do a commercial product with other open source / commercial products By altering / removing the final product requirements We receive a lot of s Some are reminders of things we ve already done (but it takes extra time to check if we have really done it because we received a reminder!) Some are requests of information we ve already sent somewhere else 18 February

8 Suggestions of improvements Communication and instructions Is there better method for communicating and delivering the necessary info than duplicate s? If another open source initiative exists, there s no need for spending EU funds to create a similar open source initiative Some GE s are very similar to other open source solutions, but are more complex On the other hand, many GE s are extremely useful but we did not know of them before this project How to make them more widely known? Google ads? Better categorization? Maybe a smaller - 5ke - fund for winning small competitions? Having more CreatiFI presence in SW events? 18 February

9 We are very excited and motivated finishing the Tactile Maps Community with CreatiFI funding - Versoteq development team We are very interested in participating in developing and providing B2B service within the Tactile Maps Community concept - Our Finnish partner => Refining the future made in 3D! Thank You!