“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Among open source research project funded by the EC the EDOS project aimed to study and solve problems associated with the production, management and distribution of open source software packages.
EDOS (Environment for the Development and Distribution of Open Source software) obtained interesting results, either from an academic point of view or from an industrial perspective.
The lines between open source and proprietary vendors’ software strategies continue to blur. Intuit announced the launch of a community site for developers interested in creating connected on line applications for small businesses, providing them with a number of open source tools.
Twelve SourceForge community choice awards have been assigned to nine different open source projects. PortableApps won four awards, included “Best Project”. OpenOffice.org, awarded with 3 prizes last year, won ‘just’ an award, resulting the “best project for Government”, getting an amazing share of votes (48.27%).
Despite PortableApps is today’s most amazing victory, I want to join the OpenOffice.org debate, recently raised by Matt Asay after Kevin Turner’s speech at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
Continue reading ‘SourceForge Community Awards and the Business Case for OpenOffice.org’
About three months ago GroundWork announced the availability of GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition, a cheaper edition designed to establish a position at the lower end of the market and yet educating users to trade money to save time (as Mårten Mickos docet).
I asked David Dennis, senior director of product marketing at Groundwork, to keep me updated about the initiative, below some answers on the topic of GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Pricing Incentives and Business Strategies: the GroundWork case’
Tim O’Reilly yesterday at OSCON during his keynote unveiled the Open Source for America, which includes industry and thought leaders of the open source world in its membership, and is meant to provide:
“unified voice to help effect change in U.S. Federal Government policies and practices to allow the federal government to better utilize open source software for cost efficiency, security and enhanced performance.”
Do we need to run a similar initiative here, in Europe?
MEPs candidates before the European elections have been called upon to pledge their committment to digital freedoms, 34 of them have now been elected.
The Italian Association Assoli launched a campaign to provide a reality check for MEPs to see if they are committed.
Belgium, France, Spain, and UK might well adopt a similar approach, I think.
Justin Erenkrantz - Apache Software Foundation board member as well as President of the foundation - today at OSCON 2009 will talk about “Putting It All Together: Contributing to Open Source Projects“, or how an individual developer can contribute constructively to an (Apache) open source project.
Yesterday I had an skype conversation with Justin and Sander Striker, an Apache contributor, and I asked them more about Apache and the Apache Incubator, the entry path into the Apache software foundation for projects wishing to get under the Apache umbrella.
Continue reading ‘Contributing to Apache Open Source Projects’
As mentioned before, sometimes EU funded projects overlap. Asking around about European open source initiatives, I happened to get in touch with Paul Adams. Apparently Paul is the only person who has worked on each of the three projects to whom the EC asked to collaborate, and I asked him more about such cooperation.
Continue reading ‘About Open Source EU Funded Projects Overlapping’
Packt - the publishing company specialized in books on software running yearly the open source CMS award - published “Flash with Drupal“, another book on Drupal.
Travis Tidwell - author of the book, creator of the Dash Media Player of and founder of TMT Digital - shows how to work with hybrid Flash-Drupal architecture, introducing readers to create Flash applications from scratch.
The book is a step by step guide, readers need some understanding of ActionScript and PHP, as for Flash no knowledge is required. See Delicioso website to have an idea of what he can do with Flash and Drupal.
The MySQL Librarian is an initiative aimed to collect links to the best MySQL-related material on the web. I asked Giuseppe Maxia, MySQL Community Team Lead, more about the initiative.
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