The ODF Plugfest final agenda is on line, and few Italian speakers will talk on the first day, Monday 2nd of November.
Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) - will welcome attendees. Later I will give my opening talk on “open standards and interoperability”, and at 11 am Stefano Paggetti - Director of Umbria’s consortium for IT in local public administrations (SIR) - will talk about the regional law that favors adherence to open standards and how local public administrations look at interoperability issues.
See you there!
The Free Culture Forum is an event dedicated to free culture and free knowledge, bringing together stakeholders from all over the world for three days in Barcelona (Spain) from 29th of October until 1st November.
Watch the English video on Youtube and join the event live.
MasterNewMedia daily online magazine is 10 years old! Congratulations to Robin Good also for passing the one million revenue mark coming from google ads displayed on MasterNewMedia.
Robin keep up with your great work , and I look forward to learn more from you with POP.
Christian Biasco, author of π-Videoblog - a video series dedicated to intellectual property and intellectual freedom - has just released the video guide dedicated to OpenOffice.org. The OpenOffice.org video is the third of the PinGuide series, and it has been sponsored by two Italian LUG (LinuxTrent and FoLug).
PinGuide is a collaborative project, volunteers willing to translate videoguides are welcome, if interested contact directly Christian.
Mark Radcliffe on Thursday 29 at 9 AM (PST) will lead the ”The Top 10 Issues Confronting Users of Open Source” webinar. DLA Piper and FOSSBazaar are co-hosting this one hour event aimed at discussing major mistakes companies make in managing the use of open source as well as best practices.
Mind the Bridge Gymnasium - the initiative started by Italians living in Silicon Valley to help Italian entrepreneurs to go to Silicon Valley, raise capital and bring it home - invites you to the “Presentations Skills Workshop“. The workshop will be held in Milan on the 20-21 of October by Elisabetta Ghisini and will teach the audience on how to deliver business presentations.
This event is for payment and it costs 500 euros.
To keep updated with Mind the Bridge initiatives follow Mind the Bridge blog.
OpenOffice.org development switches to Mercurial - Come to the OpenOffice.org conference in Orvieto to learn why OpenOffice.org development switched to Mercurial.
How to export OpenOffice presentations to PDF - Learn how to manage notes page and eventually print them.
Burton Group’s “Short List” of Productivity Suite Leaders Goes Beyond Microsoft - -Burton Group says that the productivity suite market is in the midst of a rebirth.
Although Microsoft remains the market leader, it is being challenged by suppliers on Burton Group’s ‘Short List’ including IBM, OpenOffice.org, and Sun.
The second ODF Plugfest will eventually take place in Orvieto (Italy) on the 2nd and 3rd of November, and I want to personally thank all people who helped to make my dream a reality. The event will be held at the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Di Orvieto and everyone is invited (below the original invitation).
Continue reading ‘Second ODF Plugfest: Everyone is invited!’
Tomorrow at 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT will take place the “Unraveling the Complexities of the GPL” Webinar. Mark Radcliffe (DLA Piper) and Karen Copenhaver (Choate, Hall and Stewart) will cover the three main issues regarding GPL license use and obligations:
- What constitutes a derivative work?
- What constitutes a separate and independent work?
- What constitutes distribution?
The webinar won’t cover the basics of GPL.
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