“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
New Chart Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1 - OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 has been released, have a look at the chart features expected in the next 3.1 release.
ZK, next Sourceforge Project of the Month - The Sourceforge team invites ZK’s fans to tell their story writing to spreadtheword <at> sourceforge.net.
The Italian association Concreta-mente launched a petition for an Italian open source and open standards day.
During the next “Open Source in Public Administration“, that will be held in Spring on the 3rd of March 2009, the petition will be presented to the Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta.
Two InitMarketing Customers Win Open Source Business Award - Two Initmarketing customers won prizes. I was partially involved with Stephen Walli to write todoyu business plan, and I really enjoyed it!
The GNOME Marketing team has just launched the Support GNOME cause on Facebook, to allow people to support the GNOME Foundation and help the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project.
After the Friend of GNOME Program recently launched, today the Support GNOME cause went live.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Marketing: Support GNOME Cause is Live!’
In such a down market, raising $12m with Balderton Capital and get Bernard Liautaud, founder and CEO of Business Object, on board is a testimony of the fact that some VCs keep investing in open source companies.
Marc Brandsma, a Partner at Chausson Finance who advised Talend on its three rounds of funding, yesterday twittered about the deal, and I asked him few question about his personal story with the company, and why he thinks that Talend is a great company.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Investments: Talend’s Third Round, News from an Insider’
Web 2.0 Lessons for Communications Services Providers - Henrik Ingo, MySQL Sales Engineer, in this webinar compares the approaches of the Web 2.0 and the Communications industry. The webinar will be held on the 29th of january.
HU: Government withdraws tender requesting proprietary software - Gijs Hillenius reported on the OSOR website the news that the Hungarian Central Board for Services withdrew a software tender violating Hungary’s regulations, as it is forbidden to refer to an actual brand (via glyn moody twitter).
Continue reading ‘EU Tenders Requiring Proprietary Software, Italian Regional Laws, EUPL 1.1: European links, 25-01-2009′
Renato Brunetta, Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation, two days ago disclosed his plan for Innovation. Open Source is not mentioned, as well as there is no mention of cloud computing.
The Italian e-gov plan is contained in two power-point presentations, and seems not taking in any consideration the most up-to-date trends in the ICT sector.
Continue reading ‘Open Source e-Government? No, thank you! by Renato Brunetta’
In a major victory for free speech online, the federal District Court in Philadelphia on March 22 issued a sweeping rejection of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), and a broad endorsement of the “user empowerment” approach to protecting children online.
Read the full article, and the CDT press release.
Among the things the new FCC Chairman can do, Julius Genachowski might help open source telephony to become a more significant competitor in the business telephony market, not necessarily taking sides.
Chairing the “Open Source Software for the development of IP telephony” session - held in December at the Broadband Business Forum 2008 - panelists invited to share their visions about open source telephony trends reported about many hybrid case histories.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Telephony: Hybrid gets Mainstream’
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