“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Italian MEPs of the past legislation are told to be the best paid for least work, for sure was not easy to build fruitful relationships with most of them about digital freedom issues.
Newly-elected Italian MEPs are not much interested into these matters, only six of them actually signed the Caro Candidato Campaign (part of the “free software pact” initiative).
Marco Cappato, one of the most active on those issues, is out because his party is below the 4% threshold.
During the Public Administrations Innovator barcamp I have been interviewed by Cogo Gigi, one of the organizers, to talk about sustainable innovation in software for public administrations.
In Italy innovation is a 21st century buzz-word, but even limiting to properly reuse existing open source software and practices would be great if done right.
Continue reading ‘About Reusing Open Source in Italian Public Administrations’
OpenOffice package for public administration published in EU open source portal - The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities has released a new version of OpenOffice.org, downloadable at Osor.eu. (via ePractice).
Last week, while on a call with Jon Sobel - SourceForge Inc. Group President - I congratulated Jon for SourceForge’s acquisition of Ohloh, and he gave me some insights.
Continue reading ‘SourceForge ’s Ohloh Acquisition and Beyond’
Discover how open source BI and data warehouse technologies can implement an end-to-end solution that provides reporting and analytics. June 25, 1 PM (CET).
Register on line to Jaspersoft and Infobright joint presentation and demo, showing the integration of Jaspersoft BI Suite and Infobright’s analytic database.
As mentioned in a previous post, ForumPA - the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration - asked me to chair the only open source conference taking place in the event.
Italian and international speakers provided the audience with an insight into how to effectively deploy open source software in a significant way.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases’
Noticing that few Italian candidates signed the free software pact, I got a reaction from the Italian MEP Marco Cappato, who sent me an email to tell my readers about the importance of digital freedoms.
OpenLogic on the 17th of June will run a webinar to cover the most important elements essential to manage an enterprise open source governance program.
Capture creativity - the video webchat series organized by the American Embassy in Rome to learn from success stories of first generation entrepreneurs - today at 3 PM will be presenting the last webchat, featuring Marco Marinucci (Google, “Mind the Bridge” founder).
Continue reading ‘Italian Startups: Capture Creativity Last Webchat’
Matt Asay says that creating an open-source software able to attract significant outside development contributions is difficult, yet important. Quid pro quo paradigms, as Stephane Croisier calls them, can foster more sustainable open source communities. Both Jahia and OpenERP found their way to foster external participations.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Business Strategy: OpenERP and Long Term Sustainability’
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