Miguel Carrillo added a comment - 29/Oct/14 9:27 AM - edited Answered on a different list (he used 2 simoultaneously) Hi Fiona, I was trying to answer your question on the fiware-lab-help@lists.fi-ware.org list but I see that you are using two channels. Let us use this one for the sake of efficiency. The straightforward way of testing the technology is logging on FIWARE Lab and using the self deployment facilities because: 1.- You have all the computing resources and you do not need to use your servers 2.- Using automated facilities to deploy GE is ten times easier than deploying it manually on a different environment Nothing precludes local installations on the local machines of the person testing this but it is more cumbersome. All our software is open source (just on exception in Security that we intend to replace soon) The contacts are extremely clear, I would say: http://www.fi-ware.org/contact-us/ I guess that all of us know that FIWARE Lab is on https://lab.fiware.org/ As a member of FIWARE I will be glad to answer questions on the FIWARE technology or FIWARE environments(my scope), preferably in the dedicated lists. Terms such as "2.2 question" and "2.3 question" are completely alien to me so I cannot provide a good answer without risking mistakes. Best regards, Miguel