“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
I keep updating my blog to organize information in a clearer way, and I made some changes just yesterday, while WordPress was stating that WordPress themes are GPL too.
Matteo Ionescu, who originally brought my blog to 2.0 life, helped me to make more cosmetics changes, especially about new and old widgets, and my K2 template today comes with a slightly new look (new ‘top posts’ box, smaller ‘categories’ box, etc).
Comments and feedback are welcome, more is to come soon!
Sun PDF Import Extension - The extension allows to import and modify PDF documents, the perfect tool to change dates, numbers or small portions of text. Long documents or with sophisticated layouts are not suitable for the PDF Import Extension, though.
OpenOffice 3.1.0 Plus Win Portable USB (Italian) - The Italian school Ettore Majorana in collaboration with Ylvo COMPANY the created the Italian version. The English version is available at the PortableApps website.
OOo gets OCS - The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference website runs on OCS software.
SourceForge few days ago served its 4 billionth download and today launched the new website. The new UI is the answer to inputs from project administrators asking for an easier path for users to download their software.
I asked Jon Sobel, SourceForge Inc. Group President, his opinion about this change:
The Dutch government is showing the way to go: the Minister for Foreigng Trade Frank Heemskerk opened the now famous ODF Plugfest saying that a joint course of action for developing effective ODF support in each other’s products is needed.
Last week the Italian government announced a joint effort with Sun Microsystems to foster the use of StarOffice by local public administrations, but the press release doesn’t mention either ODF or open standards. Improvements are needed, the lack of a European coherent strategic vision towards standards’ compliance.
Continue reading ‘An ODF Plugfest a Day Take the Doctor Away’
OpenOffice.org keeps doing well in Italy, the OpenOffice.org Italian Association announced that OpenOffice.org in Italy broke the four millions mark in less than 6 months, a growth of more than 196% compared with the previous year.
Italo Vignoli, PLIO’s president, said:
In Italy OpenOffice.org downloads exceeded the number of PC sold, steadily growing at an amazing rate.
Is time to vote for SourceForce open source community awards 2009, OpenOffice.org has been chosen as a finalist in the category of Best Project for Government.
OpenOffice.org fellows ask to vote for our beloved open source productive suite, and I invite you to do so unless you prefer other candidates (some of them actually like Trisano, Sahana or Medical deserve our attention too).
Funambol and JAJAH, the global IP communications company, today announced the world premiere of the new Go JAJAH service, to be launched exclusively in Italy.
The new service automatically updates a mobile phone address book, creating a local number for each international number, allowing callers to make international calls at local rates.
Continue reading ‘Funambol + JAJAH: Open Source SaaS in Action’
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The Software Freedom Conference Kosova will be held on 29-30 of August 2009 in Prishtina (Kosovo), and it will bring together local developers and the international community.
Authors are invited to submit Papers, as a newborn and developing nation the focus will be on the following topics:
Continue reading ‘Kosova SFCK09: The First Free Software Freedom Conference of Kosovo’
Assinform - the Italian association of Information & Communication Technology companies - will present on the 26 of June the first Italian Information Technology report 2009.
The report covers Italian IT market’s structure and evolution, summarizing results after surveying 1000 companies. The report compares also the Italian IT market with the most active European IT markets, and analyzes differences among Italian regions (Lombardia, Emilia Romagna, Lazio and others).
The European edition of the OpenSQLCamp 2009, will take place in Sankt Augustin (Germany) on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd within the Free and Open Source Conference 2009 - the German conference now in its fourth year.
The goal of this event is to spread the word about the vibrant communities and large ecosystems around Open Source Databases and to educate the attendees about what alternatives exist to commercial databases. Continue reading ‘Open SQL Camp Europe 2009, 22-23 August, Sankt Augustin (Germany)’
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