“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
The deadline for the call of proposals of the third Open World Forum - to be held in Paris, 30 September - 1 October 2010, plus an optional Geek Day on 2 October - has been extended from March 30 to April 15.
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GNOME is raising funds for a system administrator, and just yesterday a ruler has been added to the top of various GNOME websites to show people progress. Stormy Peters reported that on the first day almost $1,000 in donations came from individual donors, and $5,000 from a company.
The goal tracking ruler added by Lucas Rocha and others is a nice and effective tool. Kudos to the GNOME Marketing team.
Maybe others like the Eclipse foundation will follow the GNOME example, hope at PLIO will consider that at some point.
| Mar ’10 |
| 26 |
Business International, the Italian leading conference company, is organizing the 1st Cloud Computing and Virtualization Strategies that will take place in Milan on the 26th of March at the Enterprise Hotel.
The conference will look at how, when, and where computing opportunities can be taken advantage of, providing IT decision makers and CIOs with useful information and guidance. Round-tables will cover how the cloud can benefit security, virtualization and cloud computing, cloud computing and mobile platforms.
See you there!
The Italian revenue agency has just released the list of ONLUS and volunteer organizations that are eligible for tax payers’ donations (5 per mille), and PLIO, the Italian OpenOffice.org association born in 2007 ,is among them!
PLIO has received 171 preferences, and it is in the first third of the list order by amount desc. The total amount of donations is 5.519,72 euros.
Thank you all for your donations!
Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org Italian Association Thanks Tax Payers!’
The Impact of Virtualization Technology on Open Source License Obligations - This Black Duck Webinar will provide an overview of pertinent virtualization technologies, how they work, the issues they raise and perspective on how to address them.
Mon, Mar 29, 2010 2 pm EDT
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Kuali, Linux Foundation’
SAP – Alfresco Integration for the Public Sector - Presentation and demo integrating Alfresco with SAP based on the CTAC Connector in the public sector.
March 31 2010 11am EST.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, ifPeople, Red Hat’
BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 to Skip Two-Way GMail Sync? - Differently from what expected the BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 upgrade doesn’t include the ability to work with OpenOffice presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.
Many books on Android are available today, but “Android - Guida per lo sviluppatore” (eng. developers’ guide) is the first Italian book covering the open source Java-based mobile platform developed by Google.
The author, Massimo Carli, prepares the reader to deal with this open source mobile platform in a step-by-step fashion, providing also easy to understand code examples.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Books: Android, by Massimo Carli’
Take Quality Products to Market Faster with Enterprise-Ready Dynamic Languages - Join Lawrence Backman, VP, Quality Assurance at CA, and Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState to learn the value of enterprise-class dynamic languages for developing quality applications faster.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2 pm ET.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Webinars: ActiveState, BlackDuck, EnterpriseDB’
Jeremy Allison of the Samba fame wrote an interesting blog post about Sun’s approach to open source participatory development, followed by Bradley Kuhn’s bad opinion of Oracle’s attitude towards open source.
Oracle’s plans for open source are probably not detailed enough to score, but looking at history is always instructive.
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