One year ago, talking about open source adoption in Italian Public Administrations, I reported some SourceForge traffic distribution numbers, showing that Italy was at the fourth place after Brasil.
Italy before was used to be at the third place, but the impact of open source in Brazil was and actually is, definitely stronger. Let’s have a look at the big picture, and how Europe and BRIC countries are today, as of the 29th of July 2010.
Continue reading ‘SourceForge Traffic Distribution: A Picture is Worth a Thousands Words’
Packt is about to launch the 2010 Open Source award - now at its fifth edition, formerly known as Open Source CMS Awards - an award organized to encourage, support, recognize, and reward Open Source projects selected by a panel of judges and Packt website visitors. This year they have a prize fund of $247,000 spread across six categories.
Continue reading ‘2010 Open Source Awards’
SOS Open Source last week evaluated LimeSurvey, the PHP open source survey web application to create on line surveys, translated in many languages and downloaded over 485.000 times. (read more at SOS Open Source.)
“DuraCloud Open Source”: An Open Canvas for Cloud-based Services - DuraSpace CBO Michele Kimpton on will provide an overview of DuraCloud open source code features, discuss integrating repositories with Cloud infrastructure, review the benefits and challenges identified in the DuraCloud pilot program and talk about how to get involved with future DuraCloud development.
28 July, 11:00 AM PST Continue reading ‘Open Source Cloud Webinars: DuraCloud, Standing Cloud’
SOS Open Source, the automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software, has been recently covered by Content Here blog and in an interview for Data Manager, an Italian IT magazine. Below some excerpts from the two sources related to SOS Open Source’s goal and customer segments. Continue reading ‘SOS Open Source Goals and Customer Segments’
ADUC, an Italian association of consumers, a couple of months ago wrote an article to inform about easy-download bait-and-switch practices charging a fee for open source programs download, and later wrote a petition to the Italian anti-trust authority. 
In the past ADUC obtained succesful resolutions in similar cases, and I look forward to see if they will eventually manage to get Google stop sell google keywords ads to Euro Content ltd (easy download owner), as recently asked to the anti-trust.
Kudos to ADUC to help with this issue, OpenOffice.org users don’t deserve this kind of treatment.
Running Your Business with Open Source (Webinar or Los Angeles, CA) - The webinar will take the approach of starting a small business infrastructure with as little out of pocket as possible from Hardware to the Operating System to Software.
July 17 2010, 3pm EDT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Webinars: BDPA, Codendi, Reelseo’
Confindustria Vicenza, the local chapter of the Italian manufacturers’ association, on the 13 of July hosted an event about open source entitled, “Open Source, a 360-degree view: pros and cons, legal implications and hence who can profit from it“.
The event (videos) was aimed to provide the audience with information about legal, organizational and technical impacts of open source adoption, among speakers a lawyer specialized in intellectual property laws (Luca Giacopuzzi), a researcher of the TEDIS center (Antonio Picerni), Confindustria Vicenza’s ICT manager Franco Battistello and myself. Continue reading ‘Italian Industrial Association meets Open Source’
Ready to Kick the Colo Habit? Using the Cloud Instead of Scaling Your Colo - The webinar will present Customer stories showcasing how real enterprises are using CloudSwitch to deploy and run applications in the cloud for rapid development and peak-period scaling.
Jul 13, 2010 1:00 PM EDT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: CloudSwitch, Jaspersoft, RackspaceCloud’
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