Monthly Archive for August, 2009

The Open Source Innovation Backbone for Startups

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Roberto Galoppini
on August 3, 2009
in Random thoughts
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Open innovation is taking over in many areas, and open source plays an important role especially in software sequential innovation, where each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors. Foremost, for the most of us before anything else software (open source included) is a tool towards a goal.

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Creating a book with OpenOffice.org: links 2-8-2009

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Roberto Galoppini
on August 2, 2009
in OpenOffice.org
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How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 1 - Starting from scratch.

How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 2 - Page Numbers and Paragraph stiles.

How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 3 - Illustrations, style and formatting, exporting.

Open Source Software Quality Tools: Coverity Prevent made Available to Academic Institutions

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Roberto Galoppini
on August 2, 2009
in Open Source Recommendations
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Coverity, a company specialized in software integrity products and testing services, announced the expansion of its academic program, now granting academic access to their static code analysis software Coverity Prevent, for both teaching and research use.

I contacted Coverity to know if their contribution goes towards software research within EC funded projects too.

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Kosova SFCK09: The First Free Software Freedom Conference of Kosovo

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Roberto Galoppini
on June 25, 2009
in My Meetings and open source communities
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The Software Freedom Conference Kosova will be held on 29-30 of August 2009 in Prishtina (Kosovo), and it will bring together local developers and the international community.

Authors are invited to submit Papers, as a newborn and developing nation the focus will be on the following topics:

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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.