Monthly Archive for June, 2010

Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Xerox

Free & Open Source Software in Outsourcing Projects - Black Duck Software Offers Webinar on Managing the Use of Free and Open Source Software in Outsourced Development Projects.
When: July 1st at 13:00 CEST
Audience: Project Managers, Outsourcing Managers, Legal, R&D and IT.
Register on line. In case you missed the previous SAP BlackDuck seminar here a 60 seconds version, here the full version. Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Xerox’

Jolt Awards 2010

Awards start with the nomination process and this year are granted monthly in these categories, check out the Award Schedule to know about your favorite category (the first nomination will open on the 1st of August).

I will join for the third time the Jolt Awards jury this year, in the following categories: “Books”, “Testing and Debugging Tools” and “Change and Configuration Management Tools”.

Developers, vendors, and judges can nominate their favority tools. For more information about the Jolt Awards, contact Jonathan Erickson joltawards@drdobbs.com.

Open Source Cloud Computing: Notes from a Conference

Open Source CloudThe future of Cloud services and integration” conference held today in Rome was another opportunity to share ideas about opportunities and threats emerging from cloud computing. Security vendors (Trend Micro), academic researchers, postal police officers and representatives from IT and IT security associations discussed the topic in depth.

Continue reading ‘Open Source Cloud Computing: Notes from a Conference’

Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Magento, OpenLogic

Technical Due Diligence for M&A: A Perspective from Corporate Development at SAP - Black Duck reported that total M&A business for Black Duck grew 100 percent from the same quarter a year ago, the webinar on technical due diligence for M&A will be led by Russell Hartz of SAP’s Corporate Development organization. Tuesday, June 22, 8:30 AM PDT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Magento, OpenLogic’

ACTA: Sign for your Rights

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Before the round 9 of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will take place in Lucerna (Switzerland) from June 28 - July 1st, a number of organizations are working on petitions to stop ACTA, the plurilateral agreement aimed at imposing copyright and IP rules bypassing democratic processes. Continue reading ‘ACTA: Sign for your Rights’

About SOS Open Source

SOS

SOS Open Source – an automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software – gathers and analyzes data about open source projects, providing a synthetic representation of all selected candidates and also a graphical tool to compare them.

Read more at SOS Open Source.

About Tenders Requesting Open Source

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Open source software procurement processes in the field of Italian public administrations will be at the center of the upcoming open source conference “Public tenders and open source“, next Thursday 17 June in Rome at the IBM eGov solution center (disclosureaimer: IBM Italy is a client and is the sponsor of the event). Continue reading ‘About Tenders Requesting Open Source’

FLOSS Roadmap 2020: Call for Contributions

The FLOSS roadmap 2020, now at its third edition, has now opened the call for contributions. I asked Jean-Pierre Laisne - Chief and Open Source Strategist at Bull, OW2 President and coordinator of the roadmap - to tell us more about the new edition. Continue reading ‘FLOSS Roadmap 2020: Call for Contributions’

Upcoming Open Source Webinars: GroundWork, Servoy

Unifying IT Operations & Facilities Monitoring - Learn more about Modius and GWOS are combining technologies to unlock the potential of unified IT operations and facilities monitoring.

Tue, June 8, 2010 9:00 PT, 12:00 ET, 17:00 GMT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: GroundWork, Servoy’

Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Hadoop, OpenLogic

Hadoop: An Industry Perspective - Amr Awadallah, Cloudera co-founder and CTO, will describe how Hadoop enables to consolidate many different data storage and processing needs in an economically scalable cloud resource. Dr. Awadallah will give an overview of how the core technologies in Hadoop, MapReduce and HDFS work, and he will explore how Hadoop augments the most commonly used tool for data management today — an RDBMS.

Tue, Jun 8, 2010 12:00 PM PDT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Hadoop, OpenLogic’


About the Editor

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.