SAP – Alfresco Integration for the Public Sector - Presentation and demo integrating Alfresco with SAP based on the CTAC Connector in the public sector.
March 31 2010 11am EST.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, ifPeople, Red Hat’
BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 to Skip Two-Way GMail Sync? - Differently from what expected the BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 upgrade doesn’t include the ability to work with OpenOffice presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.
Many books on Android are available today, but “Android - Guida per lo sviluppatore” (eng. developers’ guide) is the first Italian book covering the open source Java-based mobile platform developed by Google.
The author, Massimo Carli, prepares the reader to deal with this open source mobile platform in a step-by-step fashion, providing also easy to understand code examples.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Books: Android, by Massimo Carli’
Take Quality Products to Market Faster with Enterprise-Ready Dynamic Languages - Join Lawrence Backman, VP, Quality Assurance at CA, and Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState to learn the value of enterprise-class dynamic languages for developing quality applications faster.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2 pm ET.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars: ActiveState, BlackDuck, EnterpriseDB’
Jeremy Allison of the Samba fame wrote an interesting blog post about Sun’s approach to open source participatory development, followed by Bradley Kuhn’s bad opinion of Oracle’s attitude towards open source.
Oracle’s plans for open source are probably not detailed enough to score, but looking at history is always instructive.
Mind the Bridge - the initiative started by Italians living in Silicon Valley to help Italian entrepreneurs to go to Silicon Valley, raise capital and bring it home - invites everyone to join the Mind the Bridge gran finale on the 18th of March at Stanford.
Registrations are now open, take your chance to listen to the elevator pitches from last year competition.
At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved from Alfresco to Canonical, and Matt’s blog activity already reflects his career change and I asked Matt about his top priorities in the new role. Continue reading ‘Matt Asay’s Top Priorities and Goals’
The Italian Conference on Free Software, now at its fourth edition, will be held in Cagliari on the 11-12 of June.
The call for papers is now open! Associations, free software researchers, developers, open source companies, public administrations, open source advocates and creative commoners are invited to submit their proposals before 18th of April.
A logo contest is still open, if you want to participate send your before 7th of March.
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The Innovatori PA 2010 barcamp, now at its second edition, will take place again at the ForumPA , on the 18th of May. The aim of this unconference is to exploit in real situations sustainable innovation in public services.
The Italian innovators group, a network of over 1600 individuals willing to innovate in the public sector, is the right place to share your ideas and projects before the event.
See you there!
Dana Blankenhorn’s blog post “Open Source still not the first option” says that established markets are the natural fit for open source, while new markets are usually served by proprietary solutions first.
Low-end market disruption - actually occurring when technology advances faster than customers’ needs (e.g. MySQL vs Oracle, Alfresco vs Filenet) - happens in the first stages of maturity in open source adoption, while sustaining innovation probably happens at a later stage.

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