InitMarketing Customers Win Open Source Prizes, DCOS Statement on Procurement, PenOffice 3.1 supports Handwriting, Mozilla funds Theora Development: open source links, 29-01-2009

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!

Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Statement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards - On line the text of “The Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Statement on
Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards” emerging from the 2008 IGF in Hyderabad. It includes a list of endorsers, to join it send an email to igf-dcos[at]keionline.org.

PenOffice 3.1 adds tablet PC handwriting support to OpenOffice.org 3.0 - PhatWare has released a new version of PenOffice, a handwriting recognition utility for touchscreen based computers running Windows. It costs $59.95 though.

why open video? - Mozilla has given a $100,000 grant towards development of the Theora open video technology. Looking forward to see if it helps to make it a real standard.

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.