Deploying Open Source Scale-Out Storage - Gluster sponsors a webinar outlining how service providers can increase service offerings and add new revenue streams by adopting cloud computing. Gluster will be joined by industry experts Terri McClure, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, and Reuven Cohen, founder and CTO of Enomaly.
Wednesday, November 3 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT. Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Enomaly, EnterpriseDB, OpenERP’
Monthly Archive for October, 2010
AISL, the Italian Association of Free Software companies, recently debuted at the SMAU exhibit, the Italian leading ICT to discuss items related to digital technologies for business.
As results clearly from the FAQ, AISL is born to bring under the same roof Italian IT companies promoting, creating and selling free software-related services. AISL will participate also to the very next event of the “Open Source Focus Group” series, dedicated to electronic purchase of open source services via the Public Administration Electronic Marketplace.
Comparing ODF documents - ODFDiff compares ODF documents, and is available as an extension as well as a stand alone program.
Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org links: ODFDiff, OpenOffice.org 3.3, Dave Neary’s Commentary’
ICT EU-funded projects during dissemination and exploitation phases conduct both online and presential activities, but most of the times they lack of being relevant in terms of outreach. This blog entry is aimed at giving some basic tips and hints to plan an overall strategy that extends from creating (yet another) website to the metodization of social media activities.
Continue reading ‘EU-funded Projects and Online Dissemination’
Android: Opportunity and Complexity - A Case Study in Open Source Compliance Management - In this webinar Hal Hearst, Karen Copenhaver and Mark Radcliffe will review:
• The Android project, its structure and the components it comprises
• The implications of typical development and integration decisions
• The associated legal obligations
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, EnterpriseDB, SugarCRM’
SOS Open Source has been launched just six months ago, and since then both open source vendors and large customers asked for evaluations and comparison assessment reports.
Since we have been asked to qualify more community-led projects, starting from this month will publish every month a new report about one of them.
To know more about SOS Open Source read also today’s Dana Blankenhorn blog post.
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The upcoming European Commission Future Networks concertation meeting next week will host an “Open source & Research” panel (agenda), and I’m honoured to have been invited to join it.
Having been writing about EU-funded open source research for a while now - sometimes interacting with running projects, other times helping them to be more visible, but also criticizing some for not being effective or to produce poor deliverables - I am very much willing to address the sustainability aspects of open source projects and the commercial viability of open source from framework programme projects.
OpenOffice.org went live just ten years ago, on the 13rd of October 2000.Having been a community member for over 8 years, it is a good chance to recap what I have done until now. Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org 10th Anniversary: 8 Years in Retrospective’
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Legautonomie - the Italian league for local autonomies (municipalities, provinces and mountain communities) - is organizing a seminar about the impact of the national digital reform on local governments.
The event will be held in Pisa, on the 25th of October, I’ll give the closing speech talking about cloud computing and open source.
Event Information: Software Defect Containment - Gary Gack - In this DACS webinar we will examine several different defect containment methods and metrics we can use to understand comparative and cumulative effectiveness.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:00 pm EDT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Webinars: DACS, OpenERP, PACE’
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