The ePractice Workshop on Open Source Software for Public Administration, supported by the ePractice.eu and the OSOR.eu communities, will be held in Brussels, on Thursday 7 April 2011.
Monthly Archive for February, 2011
Simone Cicero, Mobile Services Engineer at H3G and blogger, interviewed me about free software and open source, below a small excerpt of his article.
Roberto Galoppini is an information technology industry insider of 20 years standing.
Roberto has a tremendous amount of “hands on” experience: he has been involved in research, have founded a company, and participates to the works of various organizations and associations dealing with free software and open source as the well known Sourceforge or the OpenOffice.org Italian Association.
In addition to consulting to companies and organizations involved in the process of designing and implementing their own open source strategies around the world- among its clients IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Poste Italiane and Telecom Italia - Roberto has developed SOS OpenSource, an automated methodology to find, assess and select open source software.
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The brand new Master in Procurement Management - a master by the University of Rome tor Vergata, faculty of Economics - and CDTI, the Association of IT Professionals based in Rome, are co-organizing the conference “cloud computing procurement: potentialities and risks“, to be held in Rome on the 10th of March 2011.
I’ll be giving a speech in the afternoon’s roundtable talking about European SMEs perspectives on cloud computing and terms and contracts’ for clouds terms and conditions.
A Practical Approach to Open Source License Compliance - This webinar is aimed at developers and legal team members who have a basic understanding of open source licenses and software.
Wednesday, February 23 2011, 2:00 pm ET
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Eucalyptus, GovLoop, OpenLogic’
Move your data in real-time from MySQL to PostgreSQL and Greenplum - n this webcast we’ll describe how to design cross-database replication, then set it up using Tungsten Replicator. We will cover some of the pitfalls and corner cases like SQL dialect differences, data types, character sets, and MySQL bugs that make implementation both exciting and fun. We’ll conclude with a demo of database updates moving in real time between databases.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:00 am PST
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Continuent, Coverity, TalkStandards’
ForgeRock announced results from its first year of operations along with the acquisition of ApexIdentity, bringing their expertise in identity and access management to ForgeRock’s projects.
Simon Phipps, Chief Strategy Officer at ForgeRock, answered few questions about ForgeRock’s story and business trategy.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Phoenix Rising: ForgeRock One Year After’
Open Source GIS for Educators — Thinking Outside the Shrink-Wrapped Box - In this webinar, Christine Bush will present a topology of open source GIS resources and briefly demostrate their use.
Friday, February 18, 2011 from 2:00 pm (CT)
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, GeoTech, OSSCube’
“Office Automation Suites, Interoperability and Migrations” event was eventually held last Friday in Rome at IBM’s office (sponsor of the event), presentations have been uploaded at the website.
Alessandro Chinnici (IBM) gave an introductory speech to explain IBM’s approach to open source and open standards, followed by David Pearson’s (IBM UK) keynote about migrations. David pointed the audience to some freely available resources, like the Free Office Suite ROI Calculator and the Visual Basic Macro Scan Tool.
Andrea Pescetti, mantainer of the Italian Native Lang project OpenOffice.org, gave an interesting talk around OpenOffice.org procedures and practices for QA, explaining what volunteers do and which tools they use (some created by Andrea himself and now maintained by the community). Andrea spoke also about interoperability theory and practices.
Fabrizio Marchesano (Frame) shared some practical advices and tips to run migrations.
Creating and Managing a Private or Hybrid Cloud: A Strategy Session - Join Marten Mickos and Michael Crandell, CEO’s of Eucalyptus and RightScale for a roundtable discussion exploring these hot topics. The discussion will be led by Bill Claybrook, industry expert and will include a live Q&A from the audience. The discussion will cover:
• The advantages of hybrid cloud environments
• The importance of cloud management
• Best practices both companies have seen from real customer deployments
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:00 am PST Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: DotNetNuke, Eucalyptus, Red Hat’
The new Italian Law on Digital Administration (codename CAD) has been presented and thoroughly discussed yesterday afternoon at LUSPIO university with Andrea Simi, consultant of the Italian Minister of Innovation, Gianfranco Pontevolpe (DigitPA, formerly known as CNIPA, the National Center for IT in Public Administration) and Fabrizio Bianchi (Assinform, the Italian association of ICT companies).
As anticipated in a previous post, in my opening greetings I made a very brief to the modifications made to reuse’s articles, eventually gathering feedback from the speakers.
Continue reading ‘The Italian Law on Digital Administration and Software Reuse’
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