LibreOffice is born, and if it is true that every end is a new begin is too early to tell if this is a good or a bad thing.
Let’s start by looking at the foundations of this brand new Document Foundation.
The Steering committe, created by cooptation by eminent contributors and project lang mantainers, has already made some choices, and until now the ‘community’ behind OpenOffice.org had no chance to join the debate.
The FAQ page itself doesn’t say much about the governance model, while a number of open source thought leaders have been welcoming the news.
How many vendors beyond Novell will eventually join the foundation and put their money (time) where their mouthes are?
Ultimately an open source community is made of developers and users, and also the latter play an important role, especially for end-users applications.
How will users take to these changes?
odt2braille brings Braille to OpenOffice.org - The EU funded AEGIS project - which formerly helped deliver odt2daisy which allows for the creation of DAISY3 format digital audiobooks from OpenOffice - supported the development of odt2braille, an extension which allows users to translate documents into Braille formats.
Marco Ciurcina, lawyer and Vice-President of the Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software (Assoli), will introduce the legal aspects of free software and open source licensing. Sebastiano Lomuscio, Consip, will give a speech around open source licenses and public administrations, while Carlo Vaccari will close the round-table talking about how ISTAT found its way to the EUPL.
A question and answer session and a public discussion will follow the round table.
Webinar Series: Opsview Enterprise and Service Providers - Join your peers for some quality time with Opsview staff and Arthur de Pauw, Operations Manager at Thales Austria, to hear how they are using Opsview Enterprise to ensure service availability and reliability.
Thursday 23 September 2010, 11:00 EST
In my last year’s note on SonarSource I succintly wrote: “Solid product, promising line of development, they just need more public attention.” SonarSource was my second best after Kaltura, and I still think they deserve more attention.
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.
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