Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Open Source Conference: ForumPA 2009

May ’09
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ForumPA, the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration taking place in Rome from the 11th to the 14th of May 2009, will host a round-table to talk about “strategies to increase the use of open source for public administrations“.

I am honored to have been asked again by Gianni Dominici,Vice General Director of ForumPA, to chair the session. I helped organizers to invited speakers from Italian and international public administrations to share their real experiences and best practices.

No talk, just open source action!

SourceForge Open Source Community Awards 2009

SourceForge just launched the 2009 Community Choice Awards, the fourth edition is open to all FOSS projects, and it includes new categories like “Best Project for Government” and “Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything”.

Nominations will be accepted until May 29th, and the ten projects with the most nominations in each category will become finalists. Last year  OpenOffice.org won three different awards, let’s see if it will win again.

European Elections: Free Software Associations launch the “Free Software Pack”

April, a pioneer of free software in France and Belgium, along with Assoli, the long-live Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software, are launching a joint campaign aimed at the European Parliament elections.

The first Italian campaign in ten days hired 101 Italian candidates, 14 have been actually elected. Agrigento is one of them, and I didn’t hear back from them since then.

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OpenOffice.org Italian Association Welcomes Microsoft ODF Natively Support

The Italian OpenOffice.org Association (PLIO), welcomes the fact that  Microsoft Office 2007  now natively support the Open Document Format, the file format for electronic office documents originally developed by Sun within OpenOffice.org and now ISO standard.

The association one year ago welcomed Microsoft’s decision to support ODF.

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European Network Neutrality: Time to Act!

Malcolm Harbour (IMCO report) and Catherine Trautmann (ITRE report) , rapporteurs of the main directives of the   Telecoms Package formerly rejected thanks to Trautmann, stopped to enforce net citizens fundamental rights.

It is time to call your Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to ask them to vote again for the “CITIZEN RIGHTS AMENDMENTS”, in the second reading of the Telecoms Package.

Learn more at the Quadrature du Net website. Act Now.

Lesser Known Open Source Applications: Netifera Security Platform, Opentaps quartertly update

The Netifera project - managed by a startup of five engineers working full-time on the development - began about two years to create an application which unifies and integrates many different types of security tools.The projects aims to become a standardized way for open source network security tools to interact as well as providing a complete collection of useful security functionality. Have a look at screenshots, read the documentation and download it if you like, let me know your feedback.

opentaps now supports hibernate as well as the original ofbiz entity engine, have a look at the opentaps google map  (world of opentaps) to locate nearest organization which use or provide services for opentaps.

Open Source Conferences: Better Software, Florence, 6-7 May 2009

May ’09May
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Better Software 2009, an Italian conference on software development for IT managers and entrepreneurs, will be held at the Viva Hotel Laurus in Florence, on the 6-7 of May 2009.

The conference will bring together national and international experts in the fields of agile programming, open source and web marketing. Aim of the event is to discuss around the process of software production, emphasizing many different aspects ranging from user requirements analysis, user interface design and product usability evaluation.

Registration are now open, to know more you follow Better Sotware blog or twitter.


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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.