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 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.
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.
Continue reading ‘European Elections: Free Software Associations launch the “Free Software Pack”’
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.
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.
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