“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
My Acer Aspire One - powered by a commercial Linux distro called Linpus - after entering sleep mode couldn’t connect to the wireless network anymore. The wireless connection logo vanished, turning the wifi switch on/off didn’t work either, as was useless try to launch the Network Center. If you got a similar problem, read below.
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The Open Source CMS award finalists list is public, and it is time to submit your vote for the Overall Award and help your favorite CMS win, below the list:
Being one of the judges of the best php open source cms category, I am looking forward to start the discussion and learn from others.
It is time to act again to protect Net Neutrality in Europe, as reported by the open letter signed by 26 European internet civil society organizations.
Next Monday the conciliation committee will held its first meeting, the Quadrature du Net’s guide (code name: Operation Revelation) will give you some tools to make the Telecoms Package a public issue. Stay tuned to this page, since it will be updated with the latest developments.
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This year conference accepted contributions regarding also the Jazz platform and will feature also an industrial track.
I will be giving a speech on the 28th after Ralph Mueller’s keynote, see you there!
Last week I held the “Building an Effective Commercial Open Source Strategy” workshop at OSiM, the definitive industry event on Open Source in Mobile.
Stephen Walli and I this year worked out a richer workshop outline, aimed at covering open source software business and community issues, as well as IPR issues.
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The NEXA Center for Internet & Society seeks a researcher for the continuation of the NEUBOT project, a collaborative approach to measuring internet neutrality.
The Open Innovation Awards’ Jury today announced the list of the top 20 open source innovative startups that will be invited to present at the Open Innovation Summit on the 2nd of October.
The international jury of open source experts will award the “Open Innovation Awards” to the most promising project in terms of innovation, use of open source technologies, and value creation potential.
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Yesterday GroundWork announced the launch of MonitoringForge, probably the first vertical meta-forge of open source projects belonging to a specific software category (IT monitoring).
Talking frequently with David Dennis - Senior Director marketing at GroundWork - I happened to share with him the idea that a neutral open source monitoring à la CMSMatrix was missing. Now that GroundWork decided to start an initiative somehow going towards that direction I asked Tara Spalding, VP Marketing at GroundWork, to comment the news.
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I have been following Microsoft open source strategy from 3 years or so now, and they are not an exception: adaptation is a gradual process at Microsoft too.
Hank Janssen, Director of Program Management at the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center, over these days is traveling around Europe, and yesterday we had an interesting conversation about how open source things are going at Microsoft these days.
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Almost one year ago my friend and mentor Robin Good told me he was working to launch POP, the first online community and learning program of professional web publishers. Now his program is live, the first course is fully booked and being luckily one of his students I am looking forward to learn more things from him.
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