Monthly Archive for April, 2010

Upcoming Open Source Webinars: SAP Open Source Strategy, OSS Discovery

Open Source as a Strategic Business Enabler: A Case Study with SAP - Black Duck Software and SAP will review the benefits open source holds for development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing the challanges.

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How to Find Open Source Software

Discovering which open source software do you use maybe an “easy” game to play – using products like OSS Discovery Audit Edition scanning for over 330,000 open source projects to produce a baseline inventory of open source usage or also Krugle Basic providing basic code discovery and code duplication capabilities – but find useful open source packages can be trickier to master.

Read more about how to find open source software at SOS Open Source.

Wubi Installer and the Ubiquitous Ubuntu

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Wubi, the famous Windows Ubuntu installer, is probably one of the reasons why Ubuntu is the most popular Linux desktop distro, at least among Windows users. Agostino Russo - original author and ‘inventor’ of Wubi - told me more about how everything was started from a blueprint. Continue reading ‘Wubi Installer and the Ubiquitous Ubuntu’

Sun ODF Plugin licensing, Free Tutorials, Android ODF Viewer: OpenOffice.org links 25-04-2010

Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office - Like it or not, Oracle decided to open the door to the ODF World by charging 90$ per user.

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Upcoming Open Source Conferences (April-July 2010)

Open Source Developers Conference - April 24-25, Taipei.

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Open Source Communities: Canonical, Ubuntu and Jono Bacon

Recently MuleSource partnered with Canonical to improve Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. The Tomcat’s expert Jason Britain, newly hired at MuleSource,  made clear what are MuleSource’s contributions to Tomcat and I asked to Matt Asay more about what Canonical brings to this partnership, and to Jono Bacon more about Ubuntu’s community.

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Open Source Webinars: Nuxeo, OpenLogic, System76

Making It Your Own: Enforcing Your Enterprise Policies with Nuxeo Studio - Nuxeo is doing well, and is about to deliver a webinar about Nuxeo Studio, a web-based customization service for Nuxeo Enterprise Platform available only to Nuxeo Connect – Developer subscribers.
Live Demo with Q&A - April 27, 2010, 11 am ET.

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Open Source EU Funded Projects: SQO-OSS

Among open source related projects funded under the sixth Framework Program, at least four of them - namely FLOSSMetrics, QualiPSo, QUALOSS and SQO-OSS - have been found overlapping around open source software development and quality.

SQO-OSS - Source Quality Observatory for Open Source Software - similarly to FLOSSMetrics was aimed at massive collection of data from thousands of projects, though with different goals.

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Open Source EU Funded Projects: FLOSSMetrics

Looking into EU funded open source initiatives I stepped into few projects, included EDOSQualOSS and few others around FLOSS metrics and quality. Over the last 7 years a number of open source software assessment methodologies have been proposed, and FLOSSMetrics definitely achieved some interesting results in this respect, and not only.

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Open Source Due-Diligence: BinaryAnalysis

The Binary Analysis Tool - created by Loohuis Consulting and Opendawn, sponsored by the NLnet foundation and supported by the Linux Foundation -  automates some compliance engineering tasks using a  method designed to find license violations in embedded devices.

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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.